You have to allow homless people to commit crimes.
That’s the law.
You can’t simply go around harassing innocent homeless people who are simply trying to mug people.
New York police have arrested a man who they say opened fire on a subway platform Tuesday night that scared off a would-be mugger who himself is facing attempted robbery charges.
No one was hurt in the altercation, which erupted after a 49-year-old homeless man allegedly tried to mug an unidentified 40-year-old woman near the exit.
The NYPD arrested John Rote, 43, of Queens, on Wednesday afternoon, hours after asking for the public’s help tracking him down in connection with an altercation on the 49th Street NRW station platform the evening before.
Rote overheard Matthew Roesch, the mugging suspect, demanding the woman give him money, or he’d steal her purse, according to authorities.
Rote is accused of firing shots, interrupting the attempted robbery without striking anyone. Surveillance images show him calmly walking out through the turnstile, carrying a tote bag from a popular camera store, a green bookbag and a tablet.
Now he faces charges of criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a firearm and menacing.
Rote could not immediately be reached for comment.
“I want to be clear: we don’t tolerate this kind of conduct in NYC Transit, period,” the city’s top transit official, Richard Davey, said in a statement after Rote’s arrest. “Once again cameras recorded a perpetrator, and we are grateful the NYPD made an arrest within hours. Thank goodness nobody was hurt here – but what occurred was outrageous, reckless, and unacceptable.”
Good thing the mugger wasn’t black, or else this Rote guy would be looking at life in prison right now
Transit crime in the city has declined by 3.6% so far this year after surging during the coronavirus pandemic and anti-police protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. They are 29% higher than they were in 2021 year-to-date, police statistics show.
Some of the attacks have been particularly brutal, with dozens of incidents of travelers being shoved from behind in front of moving subway cars.
What has this country come to, that a mother has to worry that her son is going to have a warning shot fired near him for no other reason than that he was mugging people on a subway?
(Filler joke, you say? Just wait. You’ve got a whole day of filler jokes to look forward to.)
You tell it like it is, other based black guy