Its a shame that mentally I’ll persons like this guy are arrested for low misdemeanors then released instead of receiving the treatment they need to live a normal life. Here in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s Ronald Reagan decimated the state mental health system here and ever since instead of receiving treatment, mentally ill people roam the streets, are arrested by police serve a couple days in jail and are released back to the streets. That’s been going on here and across the country for decades now.
The so called “lefty’s” have always advocated for funding of federal, state and local mental health facilities and humane treatment of these sick human beings. The so called “righty’s” are more apt to advocate for locking these vermin (as they see these sick people as) up and throwing away the key. We are the richest nation in the world and in my opinion we should be able to do a lot better job of dealing with this issue.
I am not attempting to defame this Marine but just pointing out that choking someone to death is against the law. I know of more than a few people who were convicted of manslaughter as a result of killing someone in a fight that was not necessarily all their fault. They generally spend at least a couple years in prison and take anger management courses.
In these days when millions of people support vigilantes who felt it was their duty to hang the Vice President or kill the speaker of the house. (Mostly righty’s) it would set a dangerous precedent to give a pass to a guy who killed what he deemed to be a crazy man for acting up in the subway. My take is that even if he didn’t try to kill the guy (and we don’t really know that yet) he did apparently cause the death. I believe this is a manslaughter case which should be decided by a judge or jury.
Does that make me a crazy lefty Rick?