Solution to subway mayhem is simple — don’t send in National Guard, enforce farebeating!
NY Post
Thursday’s self-defense shooting upon a rush-hour Brooklyn A train is emblematic of everything Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams are doing wrong on subway violence.
Hochul’s “send in the troops” strategy failed to stop the carnage, and so will Adams’s insistence that we need more laws. What we need is for someone — anyone — to manage New York City.
The chaos started in a familiar way. An aggressive 36-year-old man, Dajuan Robinson, got on the train with an angry agenda. He targeted a seated rider (we’ve all sat there, hoping we won’t be the rider singled out), making hate-based comments. “F–k your kind! he screamed. He began making direct threats, and slammed his arm against the pole: “I’ll beat you up!”
The threatened man, 32-year-old Younece Obuad, gets up to defend himself. The older man moves at him, and Obuad has no choice but to engage, but is overpowered. A woman apparently stabs Robinson, to get him off Obuad.
It works, but Robinson then goes rummaging through his backpack — and retrieves a gun. Somehow, Obuad wrests possession of the gun, and shoots off several bullets; at least one hits Robinson in the head, putting him in critical condition.
This mess follows three shooting murders on the subway this year.
