A black madman's stabbing attack at Grand Central is the latest cry for action

[Max Boof]

Once again, New York has suffered an attack by a madman who
should’ve been in an institution instead of roaming freely in search
of victims.

And there’s plenty of blame to go around.

“I want all the white people dead,” Steven Hutcherson allegedly
ranted before randomly stabbing two teen tourists from Paraguay
enjoying a Christmas morning meal with their parents at Grand
Central Terminal’s Tartinery restaurant.

Records show that just days earlier Hutcherson had been released by
a Bronx judge after he allegedly threatened to shoot a Ghanaian
immigrant over “working for white people” last month.

When nabbed by cops, police only found a knife on him, but
Hutcherson later pleaded guilty to third-degree assault.

It wasn’t his first offense, or even his 12th. Yet Judge Matthew
Grieco sentenced him to conditional discharge by on Dec. 12.

It’s outrageous. No way Hutcherson should’ve been free to stab his
teen victims less than two weeks later.

Consider his recent criminal record:

He was sentenced to 15 days in jail but given a conditional
discharge.


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If Hutcherson was mentally ill and had a history of weapons
possession and threatening people, why didn’t authorities place him
in a setting where he couldn’t hurt people or himself?

It’s simple madness to let a guy with that kind of track record be
released again and again.

And the blame goes beyond the judge.

Gov. Hochul and state legislative leaders just won’t give law
enforcement and the judiciary sufficient authority and the tools to
involuntary commit dangerous mentally ill people.

Recall the tragic tale of Marine Corps veteran Daniel Perry, who now
awaits trial on manslaughter charges in the unintended death of
subway menace Jordan Neely.

Neely didn’t get the help he needed because of glaring holes in the
state’s mental-health safety net.

Tragically, he was on the city’s “Top 50” roster of homeless people
who desperately needed help — people who repeatedly cycle in and out
of mental-health treatment and homeless shelters — but, alas, an
intervention didn’t occur before his fateful F train encounter with
Daniel Perry.

Then there’s accused subway slasher Kemal Rideout, who, in four of
his five previous criminal cases, successfully pleaded that he was
“not responsible” for his crimes because he’s mentally ill.

Mayor Adams has had made some progress by pushing the envelope and
trying to involuntarily hospitalize some homeless New Yorkers with
chronic and untreated mental illness.

That policy has been met by a torrent of opposition from
progressives and lefty politicians, but it clearly hasn’t gone far
enough.

For years, state lawmakers have refused to make it easier for
families, law enforcement and the courts to involuntarily commit
dangerous mentally ill individuals for psychiatric treatment.

Yet troubled individuals like Hutcherson, Neely and Rideout need
involuntary in-patient care.

Madmen who threaten to kill others, are clearly mentally ill and
likely to hurt others simply can’t be allowed to roam free.

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They cannot be saved. Kill them.