Editor
NY Post
Letter for Publication
In the Lai Lai Ballroom in Alhambra, California, Brandon Tsay saw Huu Can Tran brandishing a rifle and quickly tackled and disarmed Tran before he could murder again.
Contrast this with the violent assaults by six teenagers on a New York City train. After they lit the hair of an elderly man on fire, Adam Klotz challenged them only verbally. For this, they brutally assaulted Adam while many other New Yorkers on the train simply looked on, like cowards. Far from an isolated event, I recall a few months ago when a lady told a subway gate-jumper, "We don't do that in New York." That thug followed her to the up escalator, walked quickly past her and when they were near the top, he turned around and put his hands on both rails so he could kick her backwards down the escalator with both feet. A bystander far downstairs saw the helpless woman tumbling down and instead of catching her as any decent human would do, he stepped aside so she could continue her long, painful tumble down metal escalator stairs.
"There are only two kinds of people, decent and indecent." - Holocaust Survivor, Elie Wiesel
Lawless New York City needs to pass a law making it a crime to ignore people being harmed or threatened, when intervention is reasonable. This cowardice has been going on since Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered while twenty or more New Yorkers simply watched, and did nothing.
ChemEngineerMBA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese