Adams: ‘Severe mental health’ problems to blame for Brooklyn subway shooting
NY Post
Mayor Eric Adams on Friday blamed the shocking, rush-hour shooting onboard a Brooklyn subway car on an agitator suffering from “severe mental health” issues, as he pushed for legislation that would allow police to institutionalize mentally unstable people.
Adams claimed a 36-year-old aggressor was not “in the proper frame of mind” when he was filmed brawling with another man and was shot by his own gun onboard an A train as it pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station Thursday night.
“When I looked at this tape and broke it down piece by piece and frame by frame, it is clear that it personifies what our pursuit is involved around those with severe mental health illnesses,” he told NY1.
“And as the investigation unfolds, we’re going to see the nexus between the actions that took place there and the many of the random acts of violence that just unnerves New Yorkers.”
He went on to call the suspect one of “far too many people suffering severe mental health” problems in later remarks on PIX 11.
In fact, half of the nearly 40 perps busted for attacking MTA employees in the subway system last year had histories of mental illness.
