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sake, search the economist. There's a racial component to this story that there shouldn't be.

All right. So the guy, jordan neely was a homeless black man uh who just caused trouble

uh he he was a drug taker he was a chaotic mentally ill person he haunted the subways and people were afraid of him.

Now, it doesn't matter what color he was. There are white people that do that. There are

every ethnicity does that. No matter that he's black. He just happened to be that way,

happened to be an African American.

It's not the central driver to the story.

The story is that you're sitting in a subway, you're trying to get to work or get home, whatever,

and a guy comes in and he's screaming that he's going to do damage.

And he's going up to people.

He's in their face.

He wants money.

And a bystander says enough and takes him down and he winds up debt.

And the bystander was penny.

And what tilted this story for me was that the people in the subway car who witnessed this, almost all of them were afraid and were happy about the physical

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