Yep, it’s the liberal white women that are a large part of the problem. The judge who let a 14 times arrested felon out with a ‘written promise to appear’ after which he stabbed a woman who was just looking at her phone to death on public transport (see Matthew W at BaconTime! for more) and the Mayor of Charlotte who released the following statement:
First and foremost, my thoughts and prayers go out to the young women’s family and friends.
This is a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets related to mental healthcare and the systems that should be in place. As we come to understand what happened and why, we must look at the entire situation. While I do not know the specifics of the man’s medical record, what I have come to understand is that he has long struggled with mental health and appears to have suffered a crisis. This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome. While there are questions about the safety and security of our transit system and our city, I do know there have been significant and sustained efforts to address safety and security within our transit system and across our city.
Charlotte is by and large a safe city. CATS by and large is a safe transit system. However, tragic incidents like these should force us to look at what we are doing across our community to address root causes. We will never arrest our way out issues such homelessness and mental health. I am committed to doing the hard work with Mecklenburg County, community leaders, health care service providers, and the private sector to ensure that Charlotte continues to be one of the best cities in the world, with the highest quality of life for everyone.
I want to be clear that I am not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused. Mental health disease is just that – a disease like any other than needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease. Our community must work to address the underlying issue of access to mental healthcare.
Also, those who are unhoused are more frequently the victim of crimes and not the perpetrators. Too many people who are on the street need a safe place to sleep and wrap around services to lift them up.
We, as a community, must do better for those members of our community who need help and have no place to go.
Let’s look at this a little closer, if you have the stomach for it (I’m feeling queasy myself). Despite her first sentence, she really doesn’t give a shit about the woman who was brutally murdered in public. And here’s the sentence that’s shows where her priorities are:
“While I do not know the specifics of the man’s medical record, what I have come to understand is that he has long struggled with mental health and appears to have suffered a crisis. This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome.”
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I want to be clear that I am not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused.
So in her mind, stabbing someone three times and killing them is a ‘crisis with a tragic outcome’. And she’s so busy ‘not villainizing’ that she’s running cover for murder.
IMO, she needs to be recalled immediately because she is not connected to reality. What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to get to what she wrote?
She is right in that the mentally ill homeless need to be addressed. B brought up something several days ago about re-opening mental hospitals and this guy should have been in one (or he should have been in jail).
The problem is that both the judge and this Mayor are typical of the liberal white woman mindset. The true victim–a white woman, has no value, only their sick adherence to an ideology matters.
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