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   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.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/12/27/opinion/a-madmans-stabbing-attack-at-   
   grand-central-is-the-latest-cry-for-action/   
      
   They cannot be saved.  Kill them.   
      
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