NYPD Calls Frank James 'suspect' in Brooklyn Subway Shooting, Society’s Crumbling After COVID Lockdowns
The COVID-19 lockdowns and mask mandates have taken a toll on the public.
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The New York Police Department identified a suspect after a shooting broke out on a Brooklyn subway car Tuesday morning that injured at least 23 people – including five critically.
Gruesome pictures emerged from the scene that showed blood splattered on subway floors. A police source told the Trends Journal that the gunman tossed a smoke bomb prior to firing 33 shots at about 8:24 a.m. on a Manhattan-bound N train in Sunset Park.
A handgun, ammunition, a hatchet, and a liquid that may have been gasoline were recovered from the scene.
The suspect was identified a Frank R. James, 62, of Philadelphia. The New York Post reported that James has been critical of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and said in a video, “Mr. Mayor, I’m a victim of your mental health program. I am 63 now full of hate, full of anger, and full of bitterness.”
James was still at large as of early Wednesday morning. Authorities are offering up to $50,000 in reward money for information leading to an indictment in the case. He was described as a 5-foot-5-inch black man who wore a green construction vest and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
The Post also reported that he spoke about the Ukraine War and the negative treatment that many black people face in the U.S.
“These white motherfu–ers, this is what they do,” he said. “Ultimately at the end of the day they kill and commit genocide against each other. What do you think they gonna do to your black ass?”
TRENDPOST: Gerald Celente, the publisher of the Trends Journal, has long said, “When people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose, they lose it,” and especially in areas where prosecutors encourage the problem by being deliberately soft on crime. The shooting is another example of New York City’s current struggle with crime.
As inflation and the various stresses brought on by the COVID War continue (and increase), so, too, will crime (and drug use, and mental illness, homelessness, and public nuisance behaviors).
Shootings in New York are up 8.4 percent this year compared with the same period in 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the latest NYPD data. And the problem is worldwide. As we had forecast, thanks to the draconian COVID War measures imposed on populations by politicians, a bad situation has become much worse.
According to the charity group Oxfam International, some 860 million people will be living below the $1.90 a day line by the end of 2022. This is 263 million more people that are suffering poverty than the projection they made before the COVID War was launched in 2020.
We reported in this week’s Trends Journal that Mayor Eric Adams said his administration will need more time to get a handle on crime in the city after major crime increased 36.5 percent in March compared to 2021. The NYPD said Wednesday that homicides in the city fell, but robberies and burglaries both increased by 48.4 percent and 40 percent, respectively.
The trend is not isolated in New York City. Homicides jumped in 16 major cities across the U.S. in 2021 that also followed one of the most violent years in decades, the WSJ reported.
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