I am completely shocked by this response, and the response of the general population on this situation.
Where did your working souls go? You actually think Jordan Neely deserved to be murdered because he was disruptive on the subway?
Let me start by saying I am a pretty petite woman and I have lived in NYC for many years. I have also lived in other cities. The subway in NYC is by far the worst in terms of people being unruly, disruptive and even threatening and then sometimes annoying.
I strongly believed that there needs to be a crackdown on these people: the ones who do a loud jingle, or who street dance, or who solicit and bark for the attention of the whole subway car for money. And there certainly needs to be protection against those who act in a way that is threatening to others. I have been fearful on those cars of people based on the way they behave. I have been fearful on the street.
Having someone restrain someone who moves to hurt another person would be one thing...
But to be held in a chokehold for fifteen minutes, and murdered????
No.
Nope.
Nooooo way.
Honestly I am more fearful someone who feels entitled to snuff the life out of another human being like that, than I am of anything Jordan Neely could have possibly done. And it's scary to think that he just got away with taking someone's life so easily. What's next?
in Texas someone was murdered recently because they scammed a man into thinking he had to pay for parking. Murdered. Over 40 dollars.
Anyways--the idea that we feel entitled to murder someone because they scare us is NOT the same thing as self defense. You're not entitled to take someone's life away because their behavior scares you, or annoys you, or if they even scam you.