Quote: (11-18-2017 03:10 AM)Traktor Wrote:
No, but punching a woman (feminist or no feminist) in the face is assault and the NYPD have a duty to enforce the rules and punish if necessary.
I'm really not sure what people are arguing with me about.
Taking her story at face value, I agree completely that NYPD should arrest somebody who attacks another subway passenger. However, I guarantee you that she was blown off by NYPD because, according to the Daily News article, she didn't report it until "later in the day" and she later says on social media that she "has the video now", implying she didn't when she went to the police.
WTF were they supposed to do with a walk-in reporting a "stale misdemeanor" assault with no significant injuries and no evidence? Put out an APB on a "black guy in a hoodie"? There are eight million subway passengers a day. This wasn't the only altercation, and you'll be lucky if any of them will have credible witnesses who are willing to take time out of their lives to come testify in court over some broad's split lip and get in the middle of whatever is wrong with this guy.
So now they have this video. They allocate precious resources finding this guy instead of focusing on forcible felonies. He says "that's not me, that's some other random black guy with a mustache", and has a couple of his loser friends make statements that he was smoking weed with them all morning. Even if they get him on his whereabouts, he says she started it and called him a racial slur, too.
Then what?
Then nothing. It'd be amazing if they get him to plead to a disorderly conduct ticket.
I don't think it's funny that she got hurt, but she demonstrated poor judgment because she clearly thought society had actually empowered her to make people stop "manspreading". Instead, it got her attacked by some subway crazy ranting about raping white women.
Subway slashings are a real thing that happens in arguments. This woman is fortunate it was only "lunatic" and not "lunatic with a razor blade", because no matter how seriously NYPD took it, they wouldn't be able to validate her social justice grievances on Twitter if she's dead.
https://nypost.com/2017/10/24/cops-searc...-slashing/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-...-1.3490660
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/10/09/q...-slashing/
Being right doesn't mean you win. It sucks, but this is why people know well enough not to engage with random scumbags.