To the Editor:Re “Subway Killing Both Stuns City and Divides It” (front page, May 5):Politicians and ordinary New Yorkers are pouncing on a debate as to whether or not a subway passenger who put Jordan Neely, a distressed, screaming homeless man, into a chokehold, killing him, should face legal repercussions.
Meanwhile, they continue to sit on their hands and not make meaningful investments in solutions that might fundamentally address the city’s crisis of mental illness and homelessness.
Jordan Neely is forcing us to ponder that in many ways, we all share some responsibility in his tragic death.
In fact, I have always considered that, though our city has its share of bigotry, New Yorkers come together to help each other.
Now, in the wake of subway passengers harming and killing another passenger, a homeless man, I am at a loss.