Zohran Mamdani has pledged to close Rikers Island. The sort of liberals who control New York City don’t believe in incarceration. They prefer to provide criminals with mental health treatment as determined to be needed. The New York Post provides yet another example of how that works out for regular people trying to go about their lives:
Rhamell Burke — a 32-year-old serial troublemaker who has been arrested four times since February — mysteriously walked free from Bellevue Hospital about an hour after cops cuffed him and checked him in as an “emotionally disturbed person” around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police.
The violent brute was released around 4:40 p.m. — and launched his fatal attack on 76-year-old stranger Ross Falzone, who worked as a teacher, at a Chelsea subway station about five hours later, while still sporting his hospital bracelet.
Surveillance video allegedly shows Burke hurling Falzone down the steps leading to the station at West 18th Street and 7th Avenue.
Falzone landed on his head about halfway down the stairs and suffered a traumatic brain injury, right rib fracture and spinal fracture, cops said.
He died. Moonbats can’t make a social justice omelet without breaking a few eggs.
NEW: Repeat offender who had already been arrested several times this year, including for two assaults, killed an elderly man in an unprovoked attack in NYC.
Hours before the attack, the NYPD had taken Rhamell Burke to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after he was… pic.twitter.com/AKg1HpxDln
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On a tip from patthedog.