MTA CEO Jano Lieber called on repeat subway attacker Alexander Wright to be banned from the transit system for three years.
He’s not going the MTA’s way. On Friday, Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Janno Lieber asked a Bronx court to banish an alleged subway attacker, Alexander Wright, from the transit system for three years. Bans like this can make police work easier — but without a functional justice system to begin with, they’re not worth the paper they’re printed on.
Wright is exactly who subway workers and riders are afraid of these days.
On Aug. 11, at The Bronx’s Pelham Bay Park station, he was harassing women. When transit worker Anthony Nelson came to help them, Wright brutally knocked him to the ground, breaking his shoulder and nose.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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