"... that has become an unsettlingly common feature of the pandemic in New York City: a seemingly unprovoked attack in which the person charged is a homeless man. In many neighborhoods in Manhattan, residents have expressed growing concern about homeless people, some of whom seem to be struggling with mental illness, menacing and harassing passers-by.... Mr. Nash had a string of arrests dating to 2015 in New York and New Jersey on charges including assault, burglary and drug possession.
He proclaimed his innocence as detectives led him in handcuffs out of the Fifth Precinct station house.... 'I didn’t kill anyone,' he said. 'I don’t know what’s going on.'...
In January, he was charged with criminal mischief and unlawful escape; the police said he was disabling MetroCard machines at several subway stations and tried to escape from a police van after his arrest.
The judge handling the case could have set bail on the escape charge, but prosecutors did not request it...."
Police heard the woman crying out as they struggled to break through the locked door, and Nash was found inside the apartment, hiding under a bed.
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The mnemonic for homeless is CATO
40% Crazy
30% Addicts
20% Tramps (choose the lifestyle)
10% Out of luck. Only these can be helped.
I doubt there's an Asian community. It would be like a white community. It doesn't exist.
Has Althouse.blogspot become a leftie news aggregator?
wasn't the homeless man, a protected minority?
Haven't we, as a nation, agreed that protected minorities can do WHAT EVER They Want?
The mnemonic for homeless is CATO
40% Crazy
30% Addicts
20% Tramps (choose the lifestyle)
10% Out of luck. Only these can be helped.
That's probably right if you define helped as helped to get back on their feet to live their lives. The others can be helped too, if you define helped as made less miserable and less dangerous.
These attacks on Orientals happen because Trump speaks out against illegal immigration.
And yet they continue to vote Democrat. Just like the black community does after 60 years of misuse by the Democrats. Why this happens is beyond understanding.
“The judge handling the case could have set bail on the escape charge, but prosecutors did not request it...."
This is what happens when the Dems elect a liberal DA.
Has Althouse become a deplorable comments cesspool?
Predominantly not just "homeless men" but "Black homeless men," as the Times would style it. That part would not be mentioned in a Times article, of course.
The growing problem of deranged and menacing homeless people with arrest records can be solved very easily.
Just don't arrest them. And if you accidentally do arrest them, don't charge them.
Isn't that the new policy in NYC?
Blacks are attacking Asians all the time now. You can't blame that on Trump. The left just doesn't want to talk about it, or they want to investigate the "root causes". The "root causes" is that they let these criminals out of prison and keep slapping their hands when they commit crimes. This is all because of Progressive policies.
I believe an independent google image search for the perpetrator, Assamed Nash, shows him to be a dark skinned man. In reading the NYTimes article, there is no mention of him being Black...with the special capitalization of the letter"B". I'll bet if he was the victim of the crime, his race would be highlighted in the first paragraph.
Why do the newspapers tiptoe around the fact that the attackers arrested for these hate crimes on Asians are overwhelmingly Black, whether homeless or not? Bonus question: if these assaults are by "homeless people," why do so few of the arrestees seem to be homeless non-Black people? Is it perhaps the same reason the media describes smash-and-grab looters as being "youts" when every security camera video shows the overwhelming majority of them to be Blacks?
Her killing also fit a pattern that has become an unsettlingly common feature of the pandemic in New York City: a seemingly unprovoked attack in which the person charged is black.
Very sad, and scary as a parent to a teen girl. Lower Manhattan around the Bowery and down to Canal has a relatively high concentration of shelters and outpatient drug rehabs, many in and around the edges of Chinatown. She was targeted I’m guessing because she’s a woman, a smallish one. For much of covid the office workers and those manning the economy disappeared, but the street folks never went away. I don’t know if it was just a relative thing, but going around midtown especially felt like the 80s, especially because cops weren’t clearing streets or even discouraging junkies from using the streets as a shooting gallery. But this downtown area has always had a shadier element owing to the shelters and rehabs.
A similar perp murdered a 70 yr old nurse who was waiting at a bus stop in downtown LA last month. She'd been a nurse at County General for 38 years.
The homeless want to be left alone, but left to themselves act out, from boredom or meth psychosis or what, sheer antisocial resentment?
The "mental illness" excuse is a copout.
Howard said...
Has Althouse become a deplorable comments cesspool?
If a drop of poo in a barrel of Cabernet = barrel of poo, then yes. (You’re the poo in this story, Howard)…
More to the point, there’s a line of post none too flattering to the left, reported here without comment. I suppose it’s expected the commentariat will do the heavy lifting, but not a peep…
All of this tippy-toeing around the issue by this poor excuse for a media and inept “elected leaders”. Get fucking serious and address the problem head on.
A bigger problem is the lack of Asian homeless. A mystery that has baffled socialists for years since solid family structure and a culture that stresses edication should not make a difference. The lack of Asian homeless and the incredibly low rates of Asian illegitimacy are really one of the key causes of inequality. No wonder people attack them. The way to solve this is by taking Asian children away from birth and giving them to single non-Asian mothers on welfare.
My own comment at 6:42 AM
These attacks on Orientals happen because Trump speaks out against illegal immigration.
Correction:
I inadvertently wrote the wrong word Oriental.
I mean to write Asian.
Please make the mental correction.
A Beautiful Mind?
Though the authorities have not determined that Ms. Lee was targeted because of her ethnicity...
So she was just murdered, not murdered-murdered.
"The "mental illness" excuse is a copout."
Sometimes that is true. Many times it is not. The mental illness in question is often speed psychosis, but that doesn't make it any less real. Most people really do not understand the damage that methamphetamine use has caused in this country. It turns many people into dangerous deluded shells of their former selves. Many don't ever come back. Fentanyl gets the headlines because of overdose deaths, but I'd say meth is doing more damage.
Howard (and if I were speaking to you I'd be speaking VERY slowly, so not to over-tax your brain), nothing is more deplorable than statism. Statism kills.
No mention of race = black. We all know the code. Had "Mr. Nash" been white, it not only would've been mentioned, so-called "hate crime" charges would've been discussed as a possibility.
Are Asians being targeted by black crooks or is it that Asians are getting victimized by black crooks at the same rate as Black and White innocents?
Its hard to get upset at Blue City crime, because they all voted for it.
Virgil Hilts said...
The way to solve this is by taking Asian children away from birth and giving them to single non-Asian mothers on welfare.
THIS is the sort of hard hitting Real Science, that could/Would! turn Sociology in a Real Science!
Let's settle, Once and For All; the Nature vs. Nurture question.
We'll take half of the Asian children, and place them with Single Non-Asian Moms on Welfare
and take half of SN-AMoW's children, and place Them with Asian moms
(leaving the other halfs as control groups)
Then, in 25 years.. We Find out!
Science!
So I stroll into the comments section and I can immediately sense a growing problem: the sarcasm supply is under a lot of pressure. The demand has surged lately but the supply chain is struggling to respond. Lighten up, people.
New rules: only one snark per post. Offenders will be mulched.
The attacker was upset about Asians getting too many spots in Ivy League schools. He wanted to increase his kid’s opportunity to get into Harvard. One less Asian for the Black community to compete against.
Victim of previous attack by alleged murderer speaks out:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/prior-victim-of-chinatown-killer-assamad-nash-says-lock-him-up/
If your "science" is bound by "ethics" and "legality" .. Is it Really Science?
Some will say, that gilbar has spent too much time studying quantum mechanics...
But Say what you will, you will Still Have to admit; that Edward Teller did REAL Science
The DA assures us he won't get bail this time.
Blogger rcocean said...
No mention of race = black. We all know the code
Exactly.
Christina Yuna Lee was tracked, hunted, and slaughtered much like Tessa Majors was killed . Tessa, a 19 year old Barnard student, was stalked and stabbed by 3 young Black teens December 11, 2019 in Morningside Park. Both woman were easy prey—slight build, alone, defenseless, vulnerable and naive in the ways of the jungle that New York City has become.
"some of whom seem to be struggling with mental illness"
Some?
"menacing and harassing passers-by"
At least a misdemeanor, no? For which they are promptly arrested, no?
"Mr. Nash had a string of arrests dating to 2015 in New York and New Jersey on charges including assault, burglary and drug possession."
So, longish prison term?
"The judge handling the case could have set bail on the escape charge, but prosecutors did not request it...."
Because? Proposal: start sanctioning prosecutors with blood moon their hands.
"stabbed to death in her apartment after a man followed her into her building"
Ah, "a man."
I am torn by this
On the one hand, it is a horrible tragedy for her as an individual
On the other, what's the likelihood that she voted against the DA whose policies led to her murder? 5%? Lower?
How many of her friends / associates are going to work to get that DA thrown out? 10%? Less?
If you're not willing to even try to fix a problem, I can't see why I should feel bad when it bites you.
If you have a Soros backed DA who you didn't vote against, what happens to you is your fault
I'm paywall blocked from reading the article, so I'm taking the word of the other commenters here saying there's no mention of the perpetrator being black. There was a recently published study on the race of perpetrators of anti-Asian violence.
Their finding was that 97% of the attacks were permitted by white people.. Their methodology was to look up articles on anti-Asian violence and identify the stated race of the perpetrator. So, this article would not have gone in the "black perpetrator" column. I wonder if that happens a lot.
Paywall...is Mr. Nash pictured? Is he identified as black?
Almost all of the anti-Asian violence I've seen is black on Asian violence.
That should be the story...
What strikes me is the victim's complete lack of street smarts or intuition of danger. She apparently had no awareness at all that someone had followed her into the building, or that he was tagging along behind her up the stairs. Even if he was not right behind her, I can't understand how she could have been so oblivious to his presence. Whenever I was out walking the sidewalk to my building late at night, I was always scanning to see if anyone else was within visible distance, and I would certainly be alert to someone entering the building after me. From the description that the intruder entered her apartment "before the door closed," I infer (possibly incorrectly) that she let the door close on its own, rather than actively pushing it shut, something I would always do. And I was in a reasonably safe neighborhood, in a building on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side, (though there had been periods in my years there, especially the first decade and a half, when the neighborhood and the block could be dicey after dark).
Wonder if she let him into the building to avoid being labeled a racist for not correctly noting that the scary looking Blackman probably didn’t love there
There might be an answer. If newspapers would just type Murderer or Thief or Subway-Pusher then they wouldn't feel as if they were slamming all the good, honest People of the same Race.
Wonder if she let him into the building to avoid being labeled a racist for not correctly noting that the scary looking Blackman probably didn’t love there
The DA assures us he won't get bail this time.
No, of course not. That would be racist. He'll be released on his own recognizance.
Another “Dindu Nuffin”
'I didn’t kill anyone,' he said. '
No, that's not what he said as he was put into the paddy wagon. He said "I didn't kill nobody". I've seen the video.
The NYT put it in direct quotes, but that's not what the defendant said. Does the NYT consider it its duty to clean up the grammar of those accused of a capital crime and then represent their clean-up as an actual quotation?
Howard said...
Has Althouse become a deplorable comments cesspool?
************
If it's a cesspool, why do you insist on diving into it every day, head first?
Robert Cook:
Are you blaming the victim?
I would have bet money that you were either an UES or UWS prog/liberal. Odds on a UWS.,,knew it from your holier than thou, virtue signaling, B.S. How typical of you to not say a negative word about this black murdering criminal but to imply that the innocent Asian woman could have avoided her own death if she only had your “street smarts”.
You know nothing about living in a crime infested NYC. You are sheltered in your upper-income Riverside Drive co-op. From there you preach to the everyday New Yorker who is just trying to get by without being mugged, attacked or murdered by Black criminals.
Maybe you have lived in NYC for decades, but you will never be a New Yorker…you are a poseur, and a Class A PHONY!!!
111 Chrystie St., New York.
She lived in the apartments above the C & L Sunrise store.
Google it. Zoom in on the street view. Take a look at the shithole this Rutgers grad lived in.
A shithole building on a shithole street in a shithole city.
I would vigorously resist having a daughter live there.
But I'm not so enamored with the glamorous life under the bright lights in the big city as some.
I’m with Cookie on this. I too was struck by her apparent lack of situational awareness. Plus she was very nicely dressed in heels and a cute skirt. This isn’t meant to blame the victim at all, but surely she should have known to be extra aware of her surroundings. It’s possible that she knew something was up but didn’t want to do anything that would provoke a confrontation such as take precautions because a black guy might have been following her. Everyone knows that it’s a racist act to cross the street when you see a black guy coming in your direction or following behind you on a sidewalk. Jesse Jackson once famously addressed the point in a moment of lucidity.
- Krumhorn
(my preferred adjectives: brilliant/awesome)
My local FB Group in an VERY Asian Suburb of LA has been VERY Quiet about Asian Violence, since an initial outburst. I guess the articles with images of the attackers had an impact...
I wonder if this is related? Could it be they don't want to show the race of the usual perpetrator?
UCLA won’t explain how it used taxpayer dollars meant for research into anti-Asian discrimination
In other related news, 39.8% of Homeless are Black per this site:
The State of Homelessness in the US – 2021
And supposedly per the same site, there are 552,000 homeless in the US per the WH.
And somehow LA County has 80,000 of them.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/la-sheriff-and-politicians-spar-over-homeless-debacle/ar-AAN0HiQ
The LA County Sheriff is saying that is about 1/3rd of all Homeless in the US. But using the WH numbers it's around 15%, or 1/6. LA County is around 10 Million, which is around
Which works out to about 1/33, or 3%. So LA County is a bit over represented for Homeless.
" residents have expressed growing concern about homeless people "
Yeah, and "youths".
I was called as a juror for a trial in Eugene, OR. Apparently, some meth whore got in a guy's grill, and he decked her, and they were trying him for assault. During jury selection, the prosecutor gave a protracted soliloquy about the issues facing the "homeless community". She didn't actually mention the "methamphetamine-using community".
"These attacks on Orientals happen because Trump speaks out against illegal immigration."
No-no! It's because Trump mentioned Chinese COVID!
"This isn’t meant to blame the victim at all, but surely she should have known to be extra aware of her surroundings."
You just blamed the victim.
Lack of street smarts? Didn't know someone followed her into the building?
Good Grief, talk about blaming the victim. Maybe she was in NO position to know who was following her into the building. I guess if R.Cook gets murdered we won't feel any sympathy, because that'll just mean he was goofing off and not using his street smarts.
Dealing with the crazies on the street has gotten all tangled up with racial politics, certainly in NYC and probably in most other big cities. The dangerous crazies are a subset, how small is impossible to say, and which ones are dangerous is just as impossible to figure out until they act out. In today's NYC, the cops mostly just ignore the crazies, whereas since Giuliani-time in years past they were more pro-active (no sleeping on the sidewalk or the subways, no squeegee-man stuff, etc.).
You can already feel the pendulum swinging back -- the politicos here are all Dems, but not all prog/crazy Dems. The Dem team was wiped out in the last elections in Nassau Co, mostly because of the bail reform (meaning generally no bail required) laws that had been passed by the Dem legislature (there are too few Reps in the state legislature to matter). Bail reform was all about too many black/Hispanic young men being locked up pre-trial for street crimes -- a policy that didn't sell well in the suburbs, for sure, where voters were less focused on perps and more on victims of street crime. And the prog/crazy candidates did poorly in other parts of the state as well (including NYC, since Adams was the least proggy candidate among the Dems running for mayor).
All too late for this victim, and she won't be the last. But the public's tolerance for letting the crazies roam freely has gotten quite limited, even in NYC and perhaps elsewhere -- here's looking at you, LA and Chi.
Blogger effinayright said...
Howard said...
Has Althouse become a deplorable comments cesspool?
************
If it's a cesspool, why do you insist on diving into it every day, head first?
Bus-mans holiday. After a career in toxic and hazardous waste, I feel at home. How about I like visiting the zoo.
BIPOC disfunction is caused by white oppression, so we know who the true culprits are here.
NY must have an awful lot of white supremacists to instigate this much minority criminal activity.
Stabbed forty times. What a horror. She had fled to the bathroom as a last refuge, as Kyrsten Sinema did. Whether they say the killer was mentally ill, high on drugs, or possessed by demons, it doesn't matter--the end is stll the same.
wendybar said...
Blacks are attacking Asians all the time now.
Nope. It h been ongoing for decades. Only being reported now, generally without mentioning race of villain.
Similar to the knock out game constantly reported some years ago but no longer mentioned. It has existed for decades and it has not gone away.
"Their finding was that 97% of the attacks were permitted by white people.. Their methodology was to look up articles on anti-Asian violence and identify the stated race of the perpetrator. So, this article would not have gone in the "black perpetrator" column. I wonder if that happens a lot."
As you intuit, 100% of attacks committed by white guys are clearly identified by journolists.
The most wicked thing we did in the 70`s was to close down the state hospitals and make it virtually impossible to court commit the addicted and mentally ill.
Diversity, Inequity, and Exclusion (DIE) is a Progressive Condition (PC).
Blacks are attacking Asians all the time now.
Nope. It h been ongoing for decades. Only being reported now, generally without mentioning race of villain.
People of Asia (PoA) or Asian-Americans (i.e. 1/2 American) are no longer a minority-minority who timidly take a knee and go along to get along for social progress and other "benefits."
”You know nothing about living in a crime infested NYC. You are sheltered in your upper-income Riverside Drive co-op. From there you preach to the everyday New Yorker who is just trying to get by without being mugged, attacked or murdered by Black criminals.”
No coop. A rental.
“Lack of street smarts? Didn't know someone followed her into the building?
“Good Grief, talk about blaming the victim.”
Not blaming the victim. Just puzzled how she seemed so oblivious to someone following her.
Robert Cook said...
“Lack of street smarts? Didn't know someone followed her into the building?
“Good Grief, talk about blaming the victim.”
Not blaming the victim. Just puzzled how she seemed so oblivious to someone following her.
And if she looked back, saw that a black guy was following her, and slammed the door in his face, she'd be a "race criminal". You know, like those cops who Obama told us "acted stupidly".
It's your side. If you don't like the results of your side's actions, stop having it be your side
Yes, Cookie, we're all well-aware that you live in NYC, you pretentious twit.
"And if she looked back, saw that a black guy was following her, and slammed the door in his face, she'd be a 'race criminal.' You know, like those cops who Obama told us 'acted stupidly.'"
Please, don't make stupid comments. And, what is a "race criminal?" I don't know what your reference to Obama is about.
"It's your side. If you don't like the results of your side's actions, stop having it be your side"
I don't even know what this means.
Robert Cook said...
I don't even know what this means.
Seriously? You've been asleep for the last 14 years?
Well, if so, you missed the Left fighting to establish the claim that any person who ever reacts suspiciously or defensively towards any black person is automatically a racist and bad human being.
So one highly likely situation is that she saw the guy, didn't want to be "rude" / accused of racism and have her life destroyed for slamming the door in his face. because he might have been a legit resident who would go to every other person in the building and tell them what a racist she was for that action.
So, instead, she died.
Let us know when it is you start jumping down the throat of anyone who makes an accusation of "racism" for an action that could also qualify as "being street smart".
Let us know when you start automatically voting for teh GOP opponent of any Democrat politician who encourages / supports / justifies those claims of "racism".
Until then? You're part of the problem
Greg...Traitor,
Your "highly likely situation" posited at 10:45 AM is NOT "highly likely." You are working yourself into a lather over a scenario you have created for the purpose of working yourself into a lather, as a pretext for you to fulminate over a topic that is obviously a hobby horse of yours.
Nothing to respond to here.
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