Name: Van Jones: The right is 'race-mongering' in light rail murder
Uploaded: 2025-09-09T15:00:03.000Z
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Unfortunately, we don't have services that they used to have for mentally ill people in terms of dealing with them.

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And I think the problem here is, I'm guessing the Trump administration was looking for an example.

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You have the combination of social media at the same time blowing it up.

And so it creates sort of the perfect storm to point to something.

Just like when Dukakis, when he was running for president, Lee Otter took advantage of that one incident that was terrible, that was very troubling for voters once they called attention to it.

So certain people have been looking for an opportunity to find a case like this, to make a point like this.

I want to play, this is Charlie Kirk, why he says this hasn't gotten a lot of attention.

A white Ukrainian refugee was murdered just because she was white.

If a random white person simply walked up to and stabbed a nice law-abiding black person for no reason, it would be an apocalyptically huge national story used to impose national sweeping political changes on the whole country.

Instead, Megan Basham, no one seems to care when a white woman gets stabbed to the death.

Well, we are talking about it here, so I guess I don't think that's fair.

Being in the system, because I have represented people who are mentally ill, and here's the  The balance is taking away people's freedom versus evaluating their mental illness.

And New York City, there are a lot of programs for people who are mentally ill, but they have to want to be there.

When you are mentally ill, you have a hard time knowing that you are mentally ill.

But also, people like Charlie Kirk, Van, they've been looking for opportunities to make this some sort of reciprocal George Floyd situation.

And that's the part that I think, he's almost giving away the game, and it's sad to see a lot of people going along with it.

You know, let me just say a couple of things.

One is, what happened to that young woman was horrible.

And it's everybody's nightmare, if you're in any public space, subway, whatever, that something bad is going to happen to you or somebody you care about.

We don't know why that man did what he did.

And for Charlie Kirk to say, we know he did it because she's white, when there's no evidence of that, is just pure race-mongering, hate-mongering, it's wrong.

Then he says that if something like that had happened the other way, there would be sweeping changes imposed on society.

Even when you had a white police officer murder a black man on live television, the whole world saw, there were no sweeping changes.

In fact, not one law was passed at the federal level.

So I think that's an important thing to point out.

The other thing is, you mentioned the thing about cashless bail.

I think this is a big challenge that we have.

Would you have felt better if there had been cash bail and the mom had come and put down $1,000 to let him out?

It's not about cashless bail or no cashless bail.

It's about the fact that we don't know how to deal with people who are hurting in the way this man was hurting.

But it becomes an opportunity for people to jump on bandwagons and then for someone like Charlie Kirk, he should be ashamed of himself.

No one mentioned the word race, white, black or anything except him.

What people mention is the horror of what happened to this young woman.