As ever more pols strongly condemned an incident where a homeless Black man was killed by being placed in a chokehold by another man on a subway car Monday as vigilantism, Adams said he’s going to wait for pending investigations to play out.
subway car Monday as vigilantism, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday he’s going to wait for pending investigations around the case to play out before taking a stance.
Another rider, reportedly a 24-year-old ex-Marine — whose identity has yet to be released, then put Neely in a chokehold and held him on the ground for several minutes with assistance from a couple of other passengers until Neely went unconscious. and slammed the muted response from the mayor and others suggesting they see Neely as being of a social status “too low to care about.”who took over the northbound platform at Manhattan’s Broadway-Lafayette Street station Wednesday
“I think life is valuable period,” Littlejohn said. “And if you’re the mayor of our city, and somebody takes it upon themselves to do something and someone’s life is lost, they should not be able to walk out [of] a precinct. It should be a thorough conversation, a thorough investigation, before that person is led outside.”
“Each situation is different … We have so many cases where passengers assist other riders,” he said. “And we don’t know exactly what happened here. The investigation is thorough and each situation is different. I was a former transit police officer and I responded to many jobs where you had a passenger assisting someone. And so we cannot just blatantly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.”Photo by Dean Mosesread, “NYC is not Gotham.
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