Mamdani and Hochul yuck it up after another attack by a mentally ill NYC criminal
Random attacks on New York transit have soared since 2020, and the reason is often violent psychosis that severs a person’s link to reality.Such symptoms were on display after Sunday night’s mass knifing at Penn Station, which injured five people.
To wit: the morning after the attack, Gov.Hochul and Mayor Mamdani were delusionally raving.Sunday’s alleged Penn Station attacker, Hector Deleon, 51, has a history of violence.
In 2022, he pled guilty in New Jersey to stabbing a victim in the neck, after that person ordered him off private property following previous thefts.Stabbing someone in the neck — the victim needed nine stitches — isn’t exactly a non-violent crime.But a judge gave him probation, and ordered him to continue mental-health treatment and perform community service.That didn’t take.
He faced rearrest last month for stealing from a Jersey Dunkin’ tip jar, but went free again despite his history.Deleon is crazy but maybe not that crazy: possibly upset about his looming court appearance next week on that charge, he somehow made his way to New York, armed, to harm as many people as he could in a high-profile location.He chose our interstate transit hub — the nexus of the Knicks playoffs and of travel to the Jersey World Cup matches, all happening this week.This guy looks like a Frank James.James, remember, was the low-level criminal who traveled to New York from out of state four years ago to carry out a terrorist mass shooting on a Brooklyn train, injuring ten.No, New York can’t stop every out-of-towner let loose by an equally lenient state and attracted to the big city as a tempting target.But they could show a little concern beyond statements of wishing and praying?Especially since the Penn Station carnage is the city’s second mass-casualty stabbing attack at a Manhattan transit hub in two months.And also since Mamdani still owes us the explanation for the fatal pushing, last month, of 76-year-old Ross Falzone down some Manhattan...