Boo this person

Always someone who has to make a minority look even worse.

No matter where you stand on this, there's just no reason for dude to end up dead. If you really believe that him being choked out was the "solution" to his episode...fine? But a choke hold lasting longer than 5mins? There's definitely an intention to kill. Plain and simple.

15 mins is insane

15 minute chokehold is still crazy man

I'm saying. Like if you gotta good choke hold on somebody, which I'm assuming this guy did since he's supposedly a former marine, you can normally incapacitate them within a minute. Fifteen minutes? Bro was definitely just looking to kill somebody no matter what.

I take the train daily
There was a busker dude on it once who lowkey snapped and started yelling about he was sick of everything and really might hurt somebody

And so i and half the car switched cars at the next station

And that was the end of that

I think thats the typical reaction (remove yourself from the situation) but ive seen homeless people (and generally outwardly aggressive ppl) directly insult specific people on a train and then the other person starts trying to fight but gets stopped by others before anything actually happens

My thing about people with training from armed forces and police is that they go their whole life being lowkey p**** just to learn some s*** and try it the first situation that arise.

Like am I the only person that realize that group usually take s*** overboard

They released him without charges in sick

That man wasn’t harming anyone he was just sick and tired he didn’t need to die

Soon as I heard bro was a marine and he put the homeless man in a 15min chokehold I knew that dude was just tryna be a "hero" and doing way too much.

All that training to take somebody out non-lethally, and the 15min chokehold was the right decision to him...aight man lol

Like they really need to start running background checks and psych a***ysis if a mf want to protect and serve. Cause they can't seem to fathom the fact that every situation not a life or death situation.

Bruh should be in jail, you telling me out of 15 minutes not one second he thought to himself... I just might kill dude

As someone with a mental illness I would be damned if a mf choke me out mid episode and I got millions of mfs online mocking me talking about "he f***ed around and found out"... yeah that y'all ain't s***

A literal quote from the article.

"None of us who were there thought he was in danger of dying,” Vasquez said. “We thought he just passed out or ran out of air."

We live amongst these people.

this story is f***ing NUTS

saw this come across my timeline. liked the perspective

"None of us thought he was in danger of dying ... we thought he ran out of air"

At the end of the day just pray you never get in an physical altercation with an officer

Cuz civilians will more than likely be complicit in your death if not outright participating like this brick head marine

S*** with the way NYC been getting gentrified the chances of it happening has risen. Got these random out of town mfers who only been living in NY for a couple months jumping in to be a hero.

That's what makes this situation so crazy to me. I spent my childhood, teens, and young adulthood in NY. Very familiar with the MTA trains, buses all that. In all my years I have NEVER heard about a homeless person getting choked out or attacked by some random civilian whenever they have an episode. Most people who are actually from the city just look the other way or move to another car on the train. Now there's something that can be said about that for sure, how people ignore those with mental health issues and such. But from what I've learned, it's better to just mind your own instead of getting involved. Cause that's how s*** like this happens smh

username to post ratio is in the negative

never at any point in history have homeless people “ruined a city” lol. What an asinine statement. Homelessness is always a symptom of larger scale problems. Blame the immediately visible symptom and your less visible, structural problems will persist

You can dodge around this all you want but it still doesn't make you correct. They get enabled by the people giving them money and being allowed to run amok without any repercussions. Look up the Broken Windows theory. It holds up true.

How exactly am I the one ‘dodging’? You are the one scapegoating the most vulnerable populations to explain away larger social issues. That sounds like a doge to me.

(Some would call it cowardly, really pathetic too)

Point me to one study—economic, historical, or social—that makes a coherent argument about homeless people being the originating problem for a city/financial sector’s issues with economic and social stability. Homelessness is generally understood to be a symptom; acknowledging that is not a ‘dodge’, especially when some politicians like to portray things differently to placate an agitated public

How’d he get arrested 40 times? Because he’s homeless. Why didn’t they see something is off with him? Because he’s homeless.

The fact he got arrested 40 times leads me to believe none of his crimes here violent. Probably all due to being homeless.

they don’t arrest people for being homeless

you are looking at this from an extremely weird angle if the blame is placed on people giving other people in need money instead of the reasons why they are in that position in the first place

Oh yes, the anonymous redditor who is against bail reform is a real person we should listen to