Former NYPD inspector Paul Mauro joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to give his analysis on the circumstances surrounding the recent death of a homeless man who was having a mental episode on a New York City subway train.
“Unfortunately, look, we only have one little salient clip of video. You don’t see what he was doing beforehand. And that’s the really salient point, right, which is how threatening was he? And so you got to ask yourself a couple of things. If the Marine had not done what he did, what would have happened? You know, that’s kind of the functioning point here is, and we don’t know that, obviously, but if he had not taken action, was the initial at the scene such that this guy was going to really hurt somebody? And before we said, well, you can’t know that. And so he shouldn’t have done what he did. Let’s just remember something. He’s got 40 arrests, that is nearly. And according to the latest reporting that I saw, the open warrant he has is for felony assault. Now, felony assault in New York state under the New York penal law is extremely serious. It’s actually too high in my estimation. It lets too many people off the hook because you can’t reach that bar. Mostly you charge misdemeanor assault. So if you get felony assault, you have to seriously and permanently scar or disfigure somebody. There has to be a permanent injury. And believe me, in the current atmosphere, nobody’s charging that felony assault because they don’t want the felony number. It’s one of the big seven majors. They track it. So for him to have an open warrant on felony assault, he hurt somebody.”
Paul also talks about whether he thinks the ex-Marine who put the homeless man in a chokehold will end up being charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. To hear what else he had to say, listen to the podcast!
