New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been blasted on social media for sharing a put up concerning the enchancment in subway security on the identical day a lady was set on hearth. A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly setting a sleeping subway rider on hearth in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, December 22. The suspect, Sebastian Zapeta, allegedly watched the harmless sufferer burn to demise.
The police commissioner referred to the incident as “one of the vital wicked crimes one individual may probably commit.” The incident befell at about 7:30 am on an idling F practice on the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch reportedly stated the horrific crime “took the lifetime of an harmless New Yorker.”
‘This put up is so tone deaf’
On the identical day, Hochul posted on Instagram, “In March, I took motion to make our subways safer for the thousands and thousands of people that take the trains every day. Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to assist @NYPD and @MTA security efforts and including cameras to all subway automobiles, crime goes down, and ridership goes up.”
Netizens slammed Hochul within the remark part of the put up, with one person saying, “Ummm did she test the information right now?” “this put up is so tone deaf- identical day {that a} lady was burned alive on the f practice. are you critical?????” one person stated, whereas one other commented, “somebody actually bought BURNED ALIVE right now however okay”.
“Governor Hochul, a rider was set on hearth on the F practice and she or he died. What on Earth is happening?!?” one person wrote. “Wasn’t a girls set on hearth right now as properly? You have the nerve to say it’s protected. Sorry Kathy your non-public subway automotive closed off by your safety element doesn’t rely…,” one stated, whereas one other wrote, “Please resign and depart New York and by no means return into politics.”
At a press convention, Tisch described the heinous incident, saying, as reported by New York Post, “As the practice pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked as much as the sufferer, who was in a seated place on the finish of a subway automotive … and used what we consider to be a lighter to ignite the sufferer’s clothes, which grew to become totally engulfed in a matter of seconds.”
Patrolling cops smelled the smoke and adopted it, solely to find the lady lined in flames. They extinguished the hearth, however the lady died on the scene.
Zapeta, 33, reportedly got here to the US from Guatemala in 2018. A lighter was present in his pocket when he was picked up by cops. It is believed he used a lighter to ignite the lady’s clothes.