Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres has been slammed following his response to the horrific killing of a woman who was burned alive on the New York City Subway, allegedly by an illegal alien previously deported under the Trump administration.
Footage of the mortifying clip has spread across social media, with millions, including Torres condemning the heinous attack. We’ve chosen not to share the horrifying video, but it can easily be found with a quick Google search.
“In the F Train at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, a demented man lit a sleeping woman on fire with a match, causing the victim to burn alive and die at the scene,” the New York Rep. wrote on Sunday. “In New York, dangerous people are allowed to freely roam the subway. Yet the political establishment insists on gaslighting the public with deceptive headlines: ‘crime is down’ and ‘the subways are safe.’”
Now this is a pretty reasonable statement – but there’s just one obvious problem that attracted widespread criticism.
Many conservatives noted his remark that that “dangerous people are allowed to freely roam the subway” was incredibly hypocritical given his reaction to the Daniel Penny case.
“There was no justification for choking Jordan Neely for 15 minutes — and ultimately choking him to death,” Torres wrote at the time in a tweet that was deleted immediately after people began posting it in response to the condemnation of the “alleged” illegal alien attack to expose his hypocrisy.
In other words, Torres is horrified by dangerous people on the subway – and also the people who stop them.
Neely’s death was highly polarizing, with conservatives hailing Penny as a protector of public safety and ideologically possessed leftists denouncing the killing as unnecessary and inhumane. Torres was among those who criticized Penny’s actions at the time, writing that Penny “should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Others were confused by the horrifying footage, particularly as no one intervened to help.
