What's your reaction to the killing of Jordan Ely?

That was an example of somebody who was experiencing a crisis more than one crisis at a time,

but it's allowed us to take a look at how we as a society react to the circumstances

that people deal with and what has to happen in order for events like that to not happen.

Our government is all state, local and federal need to focus more on how some crisis at

homeless crisis because it's a bridge to drug addiction and whatever you're about to get

us off the street, you have to.

The fact that we're not talking about the responsibilities that we all have with regard

to humaneness and how we treat one another to me is the missed conversation in this country.

You need more people on the ground, you need more conversation.

That's what you need.

Right now it's just no conversation handed with the actual people, but we humans, we need

each other.

It's Notes from America, I'm Kai Wright, welcome to the show.

On May 1st, Jordan Ely was killed on a New York City subway train.

He was a 30-year-old man who had been a well-known subway performer and who was also unhoused

and struggling with mental health.

He reportedly began shouting about his desperation on the train and some passengers who were

presumably afraid that he'd become violent, reacted with their own violence.

One man put him in a lethal chokehold while others held him down.

This past Friday, Daniel Binney, who put Neely in the chokehold, turned himself into

police and was charged with second-degree manslaughter.

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