In the wake of the killing of Jordan Neely, some politicians have spoken out
about how devastating this is and how it should be avoided at all cost.
Here's some of what Representative Alexandra Casa Cortez has had to say
tweeting.
I have yet to hear a real explanation from any official hesitating to condemn
the killing of Jordan Neely about what makes condemning this violence so,
quote, complicated.
Killing is wrong.
Killing the poor is wrong.
Killing the mentally ill is wrong.
Why is that so hard to say?
And to be clear, while so many who should be pointing out that that's a bad thing
seem to have trouble saying that it's a bad thing, understand that during
the period where those of us who think we shouldn't be choking the lives out of
each other on public transportation are being told to be incredibly cautious.
On the other side,
those who like this sort of behavior are not waiting very long.
They're tweeting about how this guy is a hero, and they instantly know,
based on reading the story and definitely seeing the photos of the people involved,
that this was the best thing that could have possibly happened.
He should not be attacked, he should be lauded.
For all we know, he's being extended invitations to speak at right wing events,
we have no idea what his politics is.
The guy who actually did it,
we don't know who the person is because they haven't been identified.
But it's the sort of vigilante violence that the right loves so much.
They wanna see more of this.
So, particularly at this time, I would say it's on us who want to see less people
being brutally killed to speak out as well.
In any event, AOC goes on to say Neely's last words were literally about how going
to jail was easier than accessing the social safety net support
to get back on his feet and lead a life.
Yet leaders want to raise his record as if that warrants a public execution on
the subway.
What have we come to?
That point about his past,
about the fact that he had had run ins with law enforcement or
whatever in the past, I talked at length yesterday about in the pre-port.
There is almost nothing that the right loves more than using
someone's past as a moral justification for their murder at a time
when the person doing the killing had no idea about any of that.
You know what?
Sometimes they do it with somebody having had run ins with the police or whatever.
When you look at Kenosha,
one of the people that Kyle Rittenhouse shot had done bad stuff in the past.
So that provided a justification for Kyle Rittenhouse,
a guy who had no idea about any of that.
Sometimes they have to stretch a little bit more, and they'll go and they'll just
find, photos of you on social media that provide an ex post facto justification for
your killing that again, the killer had no idea about.
This isn't how any functioning moral system should work.
And it's particularly perverse to see this sort of narrative trotted out so
often from people that assert that they have a perfect system of morality that has
literally been handed to them in book formed by the creator of the universe.
And yet it doesn't seem to have led to much of the empathy that is so
closely associated with figures like Jesus Christ himself.
In any event, Brett, I apologize, I'm pretty angry.
Why don't we get to a little bit more of the video that we have here, and
then we'll jump into a conversation.
Here is Jesse Waters.
>> Now, if a cop was on that subway with Neely going wild like that,
he probably wouldn't be dead.
Men are having to take matters into their own hands to protect themselves and
innocent civilians.
Women are whispering to me all day that they're glad a man took action instead of
sitting there and staring at his phone, pretending nothing's going down.
They're not happy Neely's dead, of course, no one is.
But they're happy someone's protecting them.
If Neely had been institutionalized, wouldn't be dead.
If Neely had been incarcerated, wouldn't be dead.
And maybe if the left hadn't defunded and demoralized the police,
he wouldn't be dead.
But he is dead, and the Democrats don't care about him,
they care about blaming somebody else.
>> Yeah, if he'd been institutionalized, he wouldn't be dead.
If he'd been locked up, he wouldn't be dead.
I would add to that list, if he hadn't been choked, he wouldn't be dead.
Again, we already know that he apparently was not threatening anyone.
He wasn't getting violent.
Jesse Waters called what happened a response to him being wild.
He was, we presume, yelling.
He was making a scene.
That's wild according to Jesse Waters.
You know what I think is wild?
I think choking the life out of someone is wild.
I think it's way wilder than anything Neely is alleged to have done.
And you'll notice that doesn't bother Jesse Waters.
He, in fact, says the Democrats don't care about him.
I want you to respond.
You can't necessarily respond specifically to me, but feel free to send in comments,
but respond at least to yourself.
Scale of one to ten, how much does Jesse Waters care that Jordan Neely is dead?
Does it even rank as a one?
Does anyone think that he gives a single damn about this?
Look, I'm not a psychic, I can't get to his head, but I see his whole vibe,
and I have a pretty good feeling.
Brett, what do you think?
>> Jesse Waters is happy that Neely is dead, 100%.
It makes him happy, it gives him something to talk about.
It's very easy story for him to cover, because he just gets to paint by numbers
all the other crappy takes that he's had about situations like this.
He basically counters what he originally said,
no one's happy that Neely is dead, but I'm happy that this guy did what he did,
which resulted in Neely being dead, right?
I don't know, for me, it's always the test of,
why are people saying what they're saying?
The motivation for
AOC saying what she's saying is to protect the most vulnerable among us.
She's not trying to be an ahole.
What's Eric Adams doing?
A, probably trying to hold a city together.
I understand it's a very difficult position to be in, but at least what
he's saying at the end is like, let's have a legal system evaluate this.
That's less contemptible than what Jesse Waters is doing, which is essentially
citing completely anecdotal non evidence to support this kind of behavior.
To essentially endorse taking action to kill someone on the subway
when subway stuff is happening on the subway.
That's it.
He's being an ahole, and he relishes it.
He relishes that this is happening.
I caution people to run and say, they know everything that happened on that subway.
It sounds like Jesse Waters knows everything that happened on that subway.
He doesn't.
And if he's gonna get mad, if anything comes out bad,
more information about people being threatened or less information about
people feeling threatened, like these guys just decided to do it on a whim,
he's not gonna take that into consideration.
He'll only use anything that strengthens his BS bloviations and
he'll use that as a cudgel, and
he'll ignore anything that makes his position weaker.
He's talking about defunding the police.
This is a lie, police haven't been defunded,
in most major cities police funding has gone up.
And he's just saying that they've been defunded, they haven't.
>> The New York City, the NYPD budget was $10.9
billion last year, 10.9 billion.
>> And I hate this argument that they've demoralized the police.
It's like a lot of what's happened has demoralized people in general.
And what is it people's fault for calling out injustice?
That's their argument.
It's their fault for calling out injustice because they aren't nice
enough to people with guns and body armor and $10.9 billion.
Engage in the conversation, don't just turn around and
call people who are trying to make the world better, evil.
>> Yeah, and bear in mind, he said, they did what they had to do.
He is telling his audience, they were not wrong.
Not they should have done something, but, God, don't kill the guy.
No, he doesn't have a problem with the process.
He's telling his viewers, do more of this.
If you're in this situation, if somebody's being loud, you kill them,
that's what you do.
That's what I am being told by Christian after Christian after Christian
after Christian.
Just like Jesus would, you choke the life out of them if they're being inconvenient.
And by the way, and again, I will never miss an opportunity to point out that
the supposedly populist Fox News that is worried about people who've been
left behind by the system has no problem with a guy who as AOC pointed out,
was talking about how difficult it was to get help.
Who was as desperate a person as you can be, maybe in the wrong venue,
maybe to the wrong people, asked for help and was killed as a result of it.
He doesn't have a single problem with that.
None of them do.
Anyway, you know what, can we just play one more video.
We're gonna skip three, let's just go to four.
A quick video of what happened when Sean Handy was talking about this,
let's play this and close out our segment.
>> Take a look at your screen.
After making violent threats, acting erratically,
a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was,
well, subdued by a bystander a 24 year old Marine vet.
Now, the homeless man, his name is Jordan Neely.
>> Yeah, so he was restrained, that's how Sean Hannity, I guess, doesn't want to
say, this video that we're playing, yeah, he died as a result of that.
He was restrained.
But we can forget a little bit about Sean Hannity because he had a live studio
audience and they were alive all right.
One woman shouted, woo.
She saw man being killed and said, woo.
Brett, what do you think?
>> It was a chokehold.
It wasn't they got in a physical altercation, there was a push and
someone hit their head and died.
You choked them and they died.
Choking is a way people die and you did it.
And guys, just to give you an idea how horny the right is for
this kind of violence,
she couldn't contain herself at hearing that a person was dead.
Well, maybe not hearing that a person was dead because Hannity knows he can't
accurately portray what happened in the video.
Then the video is what we can see.
>> Yeah.
>> They are claiming that they know everything about what happened,
by just identifying the parts of it that serve their narrative and
claiming there's nothing more to see here.
>> Yeah, I wish I could talk to their audience and be like,
you say constantly, how you have been abused by the system,
how it's set up in a way that's hurting you.
Now, you may think that it's the deep state doing that, or globalists or
whatever, whatever reason, dark reason you would give to it, whatever.
What should happen to you if you get desperate?
It's so easy for them to think, Jordan Neely, he's not like me.
But what if it was you?
What if you literally had nothing to eat, nowhere to go, and you were desperate?
Should you be choked to death as a result of you snapping and yelling or whatever?
Is that acceptable?
But of course, that requires empathy, and
empathy that you're not gonna get out of people who woo at murder.
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