The Difficulty: A 60-year-old lady was overwhelmed along with her cane in a Harlem subway station.
The 60-year-old lady who was cane-whipped 50 occasions in our “secure” subways, allegedly by an ex-con cretin, by no means had an opportunity of somebody intervening to assist her — not because the case of the previous Marine who stood up and restrained one other unhinged man threatening prepare riders (“Fiend was free to brutalize me,” Sept. 6).
The Marine was indicted for manslaughter. New Yorkers noticed what occurs to good Samaritans. No good deed goes unpunished.
However Mayor Adams says the subways are secure, and our fears are a notion, not primarily based on actuality.
Joseph Valente
Staten Island
Defenseless Laurell Reynolds sadly had her quantity known as on town’s ever-spinning roulette wheel of violence.
It’s unhealthy sufficient the mayor repeatedly spews out speaking factors concerning the public being safer and crime being down, however the truth that delusional and denying puppets like himself and Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg journey about with safety on town’s dime, whereas seemingly impervious to the depravity, is the last word insult.
This duo is the right storm of ineptitude.
Gary Kaelin, Commack
Not too way back, Adams stated the subways have been safer and crime was down.
All one must do is check out the photographs of the little outdated girl, Laurell Reynolds, being attacked, allegedly by a profession felony, in a subway station to comprehend the mayor is throwing bull into the face of New Yorkers once more.
For extra proof, take a stroll, at your individual threat, by means of the rat-infested streets of Occasions Sq. — however make certain to not disturb the strung-out junkies.
For those who take pleasure in an occasional excessive, go forward and breathe within the potent aroma of marijuana on each nook.
And for all you native New Yorkers, when Election Day rolls round, take note what Adams has delivered to this very particular metropolis.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
Is anybody shocked that nobody got here to assistance from the 60-year-old lady who was brutalized by an alleged repeat felony?
New Yorkers have realized, because of Bragg’s felony justice, that defending oneself and others could result in prosecution and accusations of racism.
After which there may be the Rev. Al Sharpton, at all times able to blow his horn. This metropolis is close to destruction.
Barbara Nolan
Rockaway
My coronary heart goes out to Laurell Reynolds and her household after her horrific beating.
Laurell lies in a hospital mattress, whereas her alleged assaulter was initially not arrested, free to probably assault one other sufferer.
Nobody went to assist Laurell as a result of everybody remembers Daniel Penny, the nice Samaritan, who faces jail for serving to his fellow subway passengers. Thanks, Bragg, for making New York unlivable.
J.J. Levine
Miami Seaside, Fla.
Why did nobody step as much as assist Laurell Reynolds as she was being overwhelmed in a Harlem subway station? I can reply that query in two phrases — Alvin Bragg.
The Manhattan DA locks up good Samaritans with higher regularity than he locks up murderers, rapists and different harmful criminals.
Barry Koppel
Kew Gardens Hills
It was terrible how that poor girls was overwhelmed. Nobody got here to assist her. Somebody even recorded the beating as an alternative of serving to her.
I keep in mind when the progressive Democrats have been requested who will assist anybody in bother if we defund the police. Their reply was that they might assist one another.
Effectively, we noticed how that labored out. For those who maintain voting for a similar social gathering, that is what occurs.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
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