Michael Ramirez for June 15, 2023

I guess it’s open season on the homeless now.

Funding social services to help our fellow man just doesn’t seem to happen as much as it is needed in our “Christian” nation. Our homeless and mentally ill should be helped, not smothered. WWJD

Good. I hope they nail him. This upsurge of violent vigilantism needs to end. You can still be a Good Samaritan without killing somebody. Hailing this marine and Kyle Rittenhouse as heroes is twisted. They’re murderers and should be treated as such.

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Never heard of Batman going after some guy ranting on the subway who didn’t hit or fight anyone until he was attacked.

Guess Ramirez has, maybe he could point me to that issue.

The thing is, this is exactly why Batman has a secret identity

Good Samaritans don’t choke vagrants to death.

A Parable from the New Conservative Christian Bible: The Good Samaritan Who Chokes People to Death…Slowly

If you think it is alright to kill people with mental problems, Senor Ramirez, maybe you better start watching your step, too- some of your cartoon opinions are coming from a very troubled mind. Good Samaritans don’t murder.

Never get involved, that is today’s lesson!!

If Penny is convicted, never again will any defender rise in New York to protect the innocent. This is called “Poetic Justice”. And in a just world, it will be the liberals and Democrats who are killed at the hands of the next drug-crazed murderous maniac.

How does a cop tell the difference between a “Good Guy With A Gun” and a “Bad Guy With A Gun”?

The Good Guy drops his gun when ordered to and complies with instructions.

I don’t recall scripture saying that the Good Samaritan killed the man he found beaten on the road.

It’s not always what you do, but HOW you do it, folks.

If I put every crazy, scary, ranting person I’ve met in a lethal choke hold, there would be fewer MAGAts alive.

Don’t blame Batman!

Neely had a long police record of walking up to people and punching them. The police took him to Bellevue where he’d be repeatedly released within a few days…and do it again. This broken system is the reason Neely is dead.

No good deed ever goes unpunished!

This poor guy, trying to defend himself…and then there’s the Royal A-hole who has destroyed AMERICA…still walking around…scamming every dumb sheep he could find to pay for lawyers…

This case lends itself for the broad, sweeping statements about homelessness, mental illness, crime run amok, etc. Many are posted above. How about focusing on this particular incident? The question is, could this individual have been stopped short of his death?

For many who support the ex-Marine the answer seems to be “no” and there seems to be a visceral undertow of joy that one more of “them” is out of the way.

Remind me again where in Scripture the Good Samaritan killed a guy?

People should be free to murder on the subway, what’s wrong with you?

Actually, Batman makes kind of a point of never killing people.

Great cartoon Mr. Ramirez!

First off, being a marine excuses nothing. It’s irrelevant to the situation.

In self defense cases if someone dies questions have to be asked about how far you had to go to protect yourself or others. Was the aggressor armed? Did he actually attack any one? Was he unusually large and threatening? Was restraint the only recourse to protecting your self? Choke holds are dangerous and people die from them. Asking those questions is legitimate and the City has a case against Mr. Penny.

And finally, is Mr. Ramirez seriously holding Batman up as an answer to urban crime?

I saw Neely numerous times on the Subway. I’d usually give him a dollar. He was fairly talented. There were times that he seemed a bit menacing, but I’m really sorry he was killed.

Sure, allowing a layperson to apply a death sentence for a crime that doesn’t carry the death penalty is completely justified…

Good Samaritans don’t kill unarmed people posing no threat to anyone. He’s lucky he’s not going to face a murder charge, because that’s what he did.

Subduing someone is one thing. Killing them is quite another.

I’ve subdued a number of belligerent humans, mostly men, some quite large. None of them died as a result.

Daniel Penny, charged with manslaughter in the killing of Jordan Neely, is going to trial.

Batman doesn’t kill! Penny should take a page out of his comic book.

I understand the common parlance, but the GS in the parable assisted the victim, by seeing that the victim received food and medical care at the expense of the GS.

I don’t propose to prejudge Mr. Penny. The parable simply does not address the legal or moral issues of self defense or defense of another. Hence the analogy is inapt.

Not so. Maybe Mr Ramirez should reread the Bible about the “good Samaritan”. (As I recollect it, he didn’t kill anyone.)

So a “good samaritan” marine used his lethal skills to choke hold another citizen to death and this is somehow not a crime in the eyes of the radical extremist, violent minority. Appears they don’t teach restraint control in the USMC. Kill the people he once saved?

Good Samaritans kill people?!!! Oh, he was a marine. I guess it’s ok for him. Free pass.

OK, I swear this will be my LAST word on this cartoon, because the comments here are starting to eat at me:It’s arguable as to whether Penny is guilty of manslaughter, or if it was defense. What is UNarguable is the notion that indicting and bringing him to trial is some travesty of justice, as this cartoon states. Too many here are demanding exoneration first, trial afterward. For all those who fantasize about us on the Left finally meeting a “dangerous homeless man”, I hope you never meet a vigilante who thinks the only solution to an argument with you is murder.

Neely, who suffered from mental illness and had a long history of violent attacks on subway riders, stormed onto the train at the Second Avenue station in Manhattan at about 2:30 p.m., screaming and threatening passengers.“The three main threats that he repeated over and over again were, ‘I’m going to kill you,’ ‘I’m prepared to go to jail for life,’ and, ‘I’m willing to die.’” Neely had stumbled into the train car and appeared to be on drugs.“He ripped off his jacket and threw it down at the people sitting next to me,” Penny recalled.Passengers thanked him and one black lady said, “he was my hero”.

He was NOT a good samaritan. He was a killer, whether by accident or otherwise.

So, mental illness is a capital offense now.

I’d say it’s open season on people protecting themselves and others. I’d say we just declared it is illegal to defend yourself on a subway.

Neely’s uncle has been arrested 71 times, so with his own arrests that would total 143. What a nice family.

Open season on the homeless has been the plan for the GOP for years. Condemn the homeless, offer no solutions to the homeless problem. I hope people understand that the issue in this case is not the choke hold but applying it until the victim was dead. If the victim had been white and the ex-Marine Black, HOLY SPIT ON FIRE WE NEED TO CONVICT!

A trained marine should know how to apply restraint without causing death.

Who did Batman ever kill?