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🗓️ 19 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Downward spiral continues
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0:00.0 | From the smallest room in New York City comes a show that gives you a reason to live. |
0:05.5 | Another homeless guy involved in a, well, a spate of deadly attacks. He's dead from being punched. |
0:13.3 | They've classified a death last week as homicide. Rich Carucci's here. Hey, Rich. You're not homeless. |
0:18.9 | Not yet. You just wish you were. I wish I was. |
0:21.0 | Bringing the number of homeless people killed in the city in the last two weeks to at least six. |
0:25.8 | Most recent victim, 54-year-old Pelagia Constantine. |
0:29.9 | They have names. |
0:30.8 | I can't believe it. |
0:32.1 | 54 died just, you know, days after another homeless man punched him on a sidewalk and queens, |
0:38.5 | they're not safe out there. |
0:40.5 | We want to be safe from them. |
0:42.7 | Sometimes they beat people to death. |
0:45.0 | Sometimes they chase people with a brick. |
0:48.8 | Sometimes there was one for, they actually, I think, charging for hate crimes on all these uh you know attacking |
0:56.5 | white people uh saying you know you don't belong here honky this guy a guy saying you don't belong |
1:02.5 | here honky they're trying to find lineel jefferson who uses honky anymore yeah exactly |
1:08.2 | come on uh jeremiah mccarthy is accused of hitting Mr. Constantine, so they were both |
1:12.8 | 54. I guess that's when most people go homeless, 40s, 50s, late 40s, early 50s. |
1:18.9 | It's very carefree time. Yeah, it's the midlife crisis, you know, bucket list, |
1:23.9 | being homeless. During a dispute, dispute, and that caused him to fall on the ground, |
1:28.2 | injure his head. That's what it is a lot of times. It's not the punch. It's the fall and the |
1:31.6 | hit in the head. It's not the fall. It's a sudden stop. She's taken to a hospital, remain in |
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