How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole Gelinas

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When Jordan Neely, a mentally disturbed man with a long rap sheet began threatening his fellow subway passengers one day last year, they were all terrified. But one straphanger, a Marine vet named Daniel Penny, stepped up, wrestling Neely to the ground and putting him in a chokehold. Tragically, Neely, who had health complications and was abusing drugs, died shortly thereafter, and New York’s ideologically motivated District Attorney decided to make an example of Penny. Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a columnist for the New York Post, joins Liel to talk about how the progressive obsession with race is crippling the justice system, about the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and about how pro-Palestinian activists are now leading vocal demonstrations about matters that have nothing at all to do with Palestine.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lea Liya Leibowitz, and welcome to Ruthless.
0:14.4	The music you're hearing comes from a video of a street performance, recorded a few years ago in Times Square in New York City.
0:21.6	If you watched a video, and you should, you'll see a tremendously talented young man,
0:27.6	dressed up like Michael Jackson, emulating the King of Pop's signature dance moves.
0:32.6	You know, the side slide, the crotch grabbing, the moonwalk, with truly remarkable skill.
0:40.1	It's hard to take your eyes off of him.
0:43.1	It's even harder when you realize what eventually happened to Jordan Neely.
0:49.1	He grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.
0:51.4	When he was 14 years old, his mother was murdered by her abusive boyfriend.
0:56.5	They found her body stuffed in a suitcase by the side of the highway.
1:01.0	Neely was a witness in the trial.
1:03.3	He was placed in foster care, and pretty soon, he started developing a host of mental
1:08.1	problems, including major depression and post-traumatic stress.
1:12.4	He was also diagnosed with schizophrenia.
1:15.7	No one was particularly surprised when he turned to a life of crime,
1:20.2	being arrested 42 times for a litany of offenses from petty larceny to three separate,
1:26.8	unprovoked, violent attacks in women.
1:29.6	In 2019, for example, he approached a 65-year-old woman named Philemon Castillo-Beltazar
1:35.9	as she was waiting for the subway and punched her in the head. In June of 2021, he meandered
1:42.3	into a Delhi in the East Village and brutally assaulted a woman named
1:45.9	Anne Mitchell Tree. And in November of 2021, just a few months later, he attacked a 67-year-old
1:53.0	woman as she was walking out of the subway on the Lower East Side, fracturing her eye socket
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