Comments by "K. Rich" (@thekaerichtexas) on "Top Story with Tom Llamas - May 5 | NBC News NOW" video.

  1. I do believe it was murder. I understand giving you subdue someone but a 15 minute choke hold is way too longer. 30 seconds would have been enough. He took the law into his own hands which no one asked him to do.....when u do that u assume all the liability of that. Now the police could have done the same thing if they were called but let them have that liability. AND......the onlookers begged him to stop and told him "you're killing him, he's pooping on himself" at least at that point he could have stopped but he didn't. So he had 15 minutes to stop but he made an active choice minute by minute to continue the chokehold......now on the other hand, nyc DOES need to do something about the mentally ill and unhoused bothering ppl on the train. Nyc has 8 million ppl and only has 7000 psychiatric beds. Assuming 5% of the population is mentally ill and could need a hospital bed at any given time that would mean nyc needs a minimum of 400,000 beds. And even if half of those ppl could managed their condition at home or thru meds that would still mean they need 200, 000 beds. That's a big difference. I think every city in America (and for nyc every bourogh) need a mental health facility to commit ppl (just like every city has a jail or a police station) make it more accessible and free, not fee for service. Let anyone walk in who needs help. 1 problem with the mental health system is the majority of it is private pay, very expensive, and control by insurance model. They need to start building dedicated impatient facilities in every city with the assumption that 5% of the population will needs services at anytime. And put beds in there, we need to bring back civil commitment for a minimum of 3 days for the extremely mentally ill until they can be stabilized. And take the stigma away if you need services. The while model needs to be changed. We can afford this. America has way to much money for these ppl to be walking around without help.
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  2. A professional artist? He was an unhoused crazy man who assaulted at least 3 ppl
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