It’s laughable that the Reddit crowd thinks that most people living in this city would be okay with a jail being built in their neighborhood.

I don’t think closing the physical space would matter much, the vast majority of people that are being held on Rikers are being accused of pretty serious crimes. The solution shouldn’t be to release dangerous people pretrial just for a statistic. Speeding up the courts will get people sentenced and sent upstate (or wherever) where they can serve their actual time.

We should focus on speeding up the courts so someone isn’t waiting 200+ days for their case to be heard.

The “victim” got exactly what he wanted.

Definitely check out the Eagle!

Very cool!

Probably because it’s not the best use of police resources to have them solely standing at turnstiles waiting for people to jump them.

Who are you stalking me? What relevance does that have to this conversation?

Lol not everyone who’s an armed guard wants to be a cop, and many are retired from various law enforcement agency’s. It’s extremely difficult to get a armed guard license in NY. If you were ineligible to be a police officer, you wouldn’t be able to get an armed guard license.

That’s definitely what happened, people on here are too soft. They’re also very quick to demonize working class PoC (which these guards are) without due process, yet will make any excuse for why a career criminal shouldn’t be held in jail.

Probably, I’m sure that’s what he wanted to happen anyway.

If a guard asked you to use the turnstile instead of the emergency exit, would you have gotten into a verbal altercation with them and started recording them? Seems pretty ridiculous.

Possibly, but the fact that she pretty much only resonated with wealthy NYers was a bit concerning. Adams had the poor/working class PoC vote which gave him the edge, as seen by the primary breakdown: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-nyc-mayoral-analysis/

Agreed, I’d be more interested to see what the entire interaction was.

Did this person have either of those? The fact that they got into an altercation with the guards and started recording them tends to make me think they didn’t.

He was, but progressives “cancelled” him for making the “radical” comment that mentally ill men shouldn’t be allowed to wander the streets assaulting Asian women.

I don’t know I don’t work for the MTA, but I imagine they have access to that data.

Right, and these guys were hired specifically for fare beating, which is why they told the individual to not use the emergency exit.

It seems as if they asked him to not go through the emergency exit and the he got into a verbal altercation and started recording them. He could have just went about his day and went through the turnstile exit, but everyone has to unnecessarily cause a problem these days.

So some kid trying to get “tiktok clout” messed around with the wrong people and found out?

Armed guards wouldn’t have gotten “emotionally” involved in a dispute with a person looking for tiktok clout. You’re basically implying that they were going to hand these type of guards a gun and say “good luck”.

Predicted what would happen? Armed guards have considerably more training and qualifications than unarmed guards, who take an 8 hour course and earn their security certificate. That’s like comparing a doctor to a medical assistant.

You were never supposed to use it unless it was an emergency, hence “emergency exit”.

Everyone that commits crime on the subway is definitely dutifully paying their fare before committing said crime!

This entire subreddit constantly shits on Adams, no need to worry about “sock puppet accounts”