Every parents nightmare. A hole in your heart that can never be filled. A life ended before it had really begun. Always wondering what might have been…if only.
Accidents, drug overdoses, suicide, all tragic, but having your child murdered would to me be the worse.
The daughter of a College professor, Ms. Majors seemed destined to make a substantal mark in the world. An aspiring writer and muscian she was attending the uber liberal women only Barnard college. .
She did check the correct boxes.
Barnard had been a great fit for Majors, who was smart and socially aware. In her admissions essay, she described why the school would be a perfect fit. “When asked, ‘Why Barnard?’ Tess wrote: ‘As an avid feminist, I have striven towards bridging my community gender divide by being outspoken in my classes, taking an intensive course on social justice, and campaigning for a congressional candidate...”
She was going to major in ‘journalism‘.
Unfortunately for Ms. Majors Barnard College is located New York City in which the present mayor Bill DeBlasio has systematically reversed the crime prevention policies of the previous two mayors, Giuliani and Bloomburg, (the latter now disavowing everything he did out of political expediency).
Tragically being a rich, liberal, white privilaged, female could not prevent her from being mugged by reality, and sadly it cost her her life.
The ‘alleged’ perpetrators are these three teens.
Of couse with the Left everything is political. Race should play no part but it likely will. Tessa’s murder has exposed (gasp) the Right wing views of some NYPD cops. A.O.C. had this to say...
“Of course, you have the horrific tragedy of a young woman’s life being taken with so much potential… “But then you have the tragedy of a young boy that was driven to that point, taken to that point. And I think that tragedy is also one of intergenerational poverty, potentially of a broken home, [and] lack of opportunity.”
“Cry me a river !“
The New York Post commenting on the New York Times .
The Times repeatedly refers to Majors’ alleged murderers as “children,” as if they were 4 years old. The paper argues that Weaver and Lewis should be tried in family court, since “adolescent brains are different than those of adults, making adolescents less likely to exercise impulse control, assess risk or consider long-term consequences.” Many young offenders, the paper argues, “are readily capable of being rehabilitated.”
But…
Robbing and killing Tessa Majors was a choice. Weaver and Lewis face adult justice not because they are “black boy[s],” as the Times implies, but because this type of crime says something bad about the teens’ moral character.
Barnard College for its part has closed the barn door…a little too late.
The attack prompted new security measures at Morningside Park, including 24-hour guard booths outside the park. The operation hours of the evening safety shuttle bus have also been extended.[34] Additional funding was promised for security measures at Morningside Park, as well as fixing the outdoor lighting. NYPD committed additional officers for patrolling the park, and Columbia University pledged more security guards.[35] New York City Council member Mark D. Levine announced he was “committed to finding the money to put in the cameras we need for sensitive areas that aren’t covered”, speaking of adding security cameras that could be monitored in real time by police officers.
If anyone should ever wonder why this particular crime story affected me as much as it did, that I would be this much time and effort in writing this post it’s mainly personal. I have a beautiful, talented, straight “A” 18 year old neice who has just started re-education indoctrination college.
This crime reminded me a lot of The Chelsea Boys who became infamous not so much for butchering two innocent people but who those innocent people were.