Dem-led cities under scrutiny after shocking random attacks: 'It is in city after city'
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Douglas Murray calls out liberal criminal justice policies and Democratic city leaders after a young activist was killed Monday in a random stabbing in Brooklyn, New York.
DOUGLAS MURRAY: I saw one left-wing journalist yesterday on Twitter saying the lesson of this New York murder was that citizens should train themselves in how to respond to attacks. I'm not sure that's the answer that the whole of the citizenry have to sort of learn martial arts or something. And in any case, what we're talking about here … we are dealing here with very, very mentally disturbed people. We are dealing with very disturbed drug addicts, hyper-violent individuals, often armed with guns. It doesn't matter what they're armed [with]. They can have a hammer, they can have a knife, they can have a screwdriver. And it's the fact that for some reason, our politicians have decided that the people on the streets who are violent, addicted and much more, have autonomy and they must have the autonomy not to get locked up, not to be institutionalized, that they've got to have their freedoms. No, in my view, it's the freedoms of the citizenry who are not in that position that have to be prioritized. It's about the autonomy and the right of an individual to sit at a bus stop with his girlfriend without thinking that their life could end with one bad interaction with just a random individual. And so this whole thing seems to be topsy-turvy, and it is in city after city after city. Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.
32-year-old Ryan Carson and his girlfriend were waiting at a bus stop in Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday morning when they were approached by the suspect. According to the NYPD, the suspect had been acting erratically before confronting the couple.
The suspect fatally stabbed Carson multiple times in the chest.