Responses to the killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train divided along predictable partisan lines: the left framed Neely’s death as a racially motivated murder, while the right defended Daniel Penny as a good Samaritan trying to protect minions from a man with a history of violent assaults. But regardless of their views on Penny’s culpability, liberals and conservatives broadly agreed that Neely’s untreated mental illness was a crucial factor. If only Neely had access to proper mental health services or if only the state had…
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