New York Governor Kathy Hochul was slammed on social media Sunday after touting how secure the New York Metropolis subway system has grow to be due to her efforts – simply hours after a girl was set on fireplace and burned to dying on a prepare.
In an X submit on Sunday, Hochul claimed that crime has decreased on Massive Apple trains since she deployed the Nationwide Guard in March. Final week, Hochul despatched 750 Nationwide Guard members to the subways in an effort to curb vacation crime.
“In March, I took motion to make our subways safer for the thousands and thousands of people that take the trains every day,” Hochul’s submit learn. “Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to assist @NYPDnews and @MTA security efforts and including cameras to all subway vehicles, crime goes down, and ridership goes up.”
Hochul’s submit got here round eight hours after a migrant from Guatemala allegedly set a girl on fireplace and watched her burn to dying on an F prepare in Brooklyn. The horrific crime had been broadly reported by the point the governor’s tweet went up.
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Kathy Hochul was widely-criticized after she touted her efforts to make the NYC subway secure, simply hours after a suspect set a girl on fireplace. (Getty Photographs / NYPD)
The incident befell on the Stillwell Avenue station at round 7:30 a.m., in line with the New York Metropolis Police Division (NYPD).Â
A number of social media customers responded to Hochul’s tweet with graphic footage of the immolation. Melissa DeRosa, who served as secretary beneath former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, referred to as out the sitting governor’s submit and talked about that one other particular person had been murdered.
“2 folks have been murdered within the subway at the moment,” DeRosa wrote. “The governor of the state of ny is a vacationer who can’t even hassle to learn a newspaper whereas she’s on the town.”
Advocacy group AntiSemitism referred to as out the governor’s communications workers, writing that Hochul “want[s] a brand new social media group.”
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Police mentioned the person threw a lighter on the lady, and she or he grew to become engulfed in flames in simply seconds. (NYPD)
Lori Mills, the vice chair of the Ventura County Republican Social gathering, additionally responded to the poorly-timed tweet.
“You could have missed at the moment’s information,” Mills mentioned bluntly to Hochul.
Sources recognized the particular person of curiosity to Fox Information Digital as 33-year-old Sebastin Zapeta, saying he entered the U.S. from Guatemala roughly a 12 months in the past, however whether or not he did so legally or illegally was unclear.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for extra info on Zapeta.
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Members of the NYPD and Nationwide Guard conduct randomized bag searches in New York Metropolis’s subway system on Monday, March 11, 2024. (Matthew McDermott for Fox Information Digital)
Fox Information Digital reached out to Hochul’s workplace for remark, however didn’t instantly hear again.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
