Randall’s Island migrant shelter unsafe for workers amid knife attacks: Lawsuit
By Social Links forKathianne Boniello
Published July 13, 2024, 12:48 p.m. ET
Knife-wielding migrants are attacking each other and staff at the sprawling Randall’s Island shelter, a former worker claimed in a lawsuit.
Leeanna Alexis says she was terminated after complaining about unsafe conditions at the 3,000-bed shelter where a 24-year-old man was fatally stabbed in January and a massive brawl erupted last month.
Alexis, 28, “witnessed the occupant/migrant that was stabbed and bleeding,” and called out of work the next day, fearing for her own safety, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed against shelter operator MedRite.
An aerial view of a massive migrant tent shelter on Randall's Island in New York, NY;
The tents shelters were also allegedly unheated in the winter, according to the lawsuit.
Christopher Sadowski
“Medrite permitted knife attacks and other attacks on staff members to occur, permitted occupants of the shelter and/or migrants to bypass security with knives, and permitted random people to come in and out of the shelter without prioritizing or ensuring safety,” Alexis said in the legal papers.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/randalls-island-migrant-shelter-unsafe-for-workers-amid-knife-attacks-lawsuit/
