Jordan Neely was the embodiment of Black Lives Matter’s method for destroying America’s cities. Here is a serial criminal who shook down subway passengers for money by screaming in their faces and threatening violence if they didn’t pay. And these weren’t idle threats. He had been arrested previously for four assaults and there is a video of him slamming a woman against the outside of a subway car. At the time of his death, he had forty-two prior arrests.
The young man, a former Marine, who tried to hold him until the police came was doing what countless people probably wished they had the guts to do. But now he’s facing the prospect of being prosecuted for murder. So, this is the essence of what Barack Obama, BLM, Soros prosecutors and the Justice Department have created. Black criminals are given free rein to harass, humiliate, terrorize and even assault innocent bystanders. And if anyone tries to resist then this resistance will be criminalized to the full extent of the law. Even the police are now the victims of lawfare whenever they try to do their jobs. And in consequence of which they now seldom bother to prevent crime. They take their job to be just collecting statements and calling for the ambulances to transport the victims to the hospital.
Essentially the private citizen realizes that he’s on his own whenever he walks down the street or descends into the subway. The police are no longer a deterrent and won’t arrive in time to prevent his assault or murder depending on circumstances. So, the young man who killed Jordan Neely decided that instead of allowing the people in the subway car to be victimized and harassed by Neely he would use his combat training to incapacitate Neely until the police could take him into custody.
Neely’s advocates say that the Marine should have just ignored Neely and in fact many of these people say the commuters he was harassing on the train should have just handed over money to him. And that’s the whole thing right there in a nutshell. According to the Left and the people they’ve put in charge of criminal justice in these cities, you must endure harassment, humiliation, intimidation, even physical assault because the people assaulting you are victims and therefore deserve to make your life miserable.
So, this case is the encapsulation of the whole BLM reign of terror. Places like Chicago and New York have been transformed from safe, clean centers of commerce and culture to dirty, dangerous hellscapes filled with homeless encampments, drug addicts, criminals, fear and misery.
But now if this young man is prosecuted for defending the people who the police no longer protect, then the City of New York has officially sanctioned the targeting of innocent people by criminals. The criminals like Jordan Neely aren’t jailed for these crimes. Even if they are arrested, they will not be detained but instead let go the same day to continue in their criminal pursuits. Whereas if their victims fight back, they will be jailed and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And the chance of federal charges being added based on the race of the perpetrator is a real possibility.
So far, the usual suspects have been screaming for the Marine’s blood. But interestingly, neither the mayor nor the wretched district attorney has rushed to declare the young man a criminal. Maybe it’s possible that the Democrats have told them how bad the optics would be if this man was prosecuted for trying to help his fellow New Yorkers against a deranged felon. But in the long run I don’t think the odds are with him.
I guess if things turn out badly at least it will be a bellwether to warn the rest of the normal city residents that the only way they can avoid being part of a permanent victim class is by getting the hell out of these cities permanently.