The first part goes without saying. The second part feels more accurate than I wish were the case:
The right has solutions to public safety problems but they’re stupid and evil, the left has no solutions but will call you stupid and evil for suggesting there are public safety problems.
– Armand Domalewski
Two thoughts:
- Jordan Neely should be alive today. The man who killed him needs to be held accountable.
- Did Neely yelling and acting erratically on the subway trigger a PTSD response in the man who choked him? Not an excuse* even if it did but it’s worth investigating if it was a contributing factor. (*Could be a reason but not an excuse. If you kill someone who didn’t attack you, that’s all on you. Manslaughter isn’t murder but that doesn’t do the dead person any good.)