In a viral video posted to social media, an unidentified man is seen savagely striking a woman more than 50 times at a Harlem subway station.
, 43, and say he has nine prior arrests, including for multiple assaults on cops, at least one while resisting arrest.
And the victim’s daughter said what all New Yorkers are thinking: “He needs help. He don’t belong on the street.” Expect to learn his history of serious mental illness in the days ahead. But this fits the all-too-familiar pattern of individuals with chronic and untreated mental illness going off in the subways.cycled in and out of hospitals, jail and prison, Blake stands as another failure of our criminal-justice and mental-health systems.
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