Eric Adams visited a Crown Heights apartment complex to assure residents that problems will be addressed after a year of 911 calls had failed to produce relief from a nightmare neighbor’s racist rants, waving of knives, and threats to kill Black neighbors
After meeting with Adams outside her building on Monday, Harris said"I respect the fact that he did come out," adding that the mayor promised to keep her posted."It's a horrific incident," said Adams."I believe this person should be inside until he gets the care that he needs and not harm someone."
And without solid proof that he set the fire, the current misdemeanor weapons charges do not enable a judge to keep him behind bars nor set bail. Black tenants in Brooklyn say they have been living amid racism and fear, from a man suspected by police of setting a fire three months ago that led to the death of one of their neighbors. News 4's Melissa Russo reports.
But some critics have asked whether the NYPD explained Attanasso's whole backstory to the psychiatric hospitals when they dropped him off, and suggested the Adams administration could have been more proactive by engaging the type of mobile mental health teams or community based social workers they use with the homeless.
Since the fire, tenants say they have been terrified for their safety. They say they turned over multiple recordings of Attanasso's threats to detectives and do not understand why the case seemed to get no attention for many weeks until the I-Team report.
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