Police Investigating Subway Death

Police Investigating Death of Straphanger Found Between Subway Cars: NYP

by Trevor Kapp

Police are probing the death of a straphanger whose body was found with head trauma between cars of a Coney Island-bound F train early Friday morning.

The 24-year-old man was discovered between the cars at the Jay Street-MetroTech station around 2:30 a.m., police said.

 ... The man was transported to Brooklyn Hospital, where he died, the NYPD said.

Observation:

1. Thanks to the MTA and the NYPD's Transit Bureau, there are no cameras on New York"s  subway trains; the criminals responsible for this man's death will probably not be arrested even if the Transit Bureau, headed by Joseph Fox, does conduct an "investigation."

2. If the persons who attacked this young man had thrown him off the train would the NYPD have announced an "investigation" or would they simply have blamed the victim for having walked between the cars as they did in the case of  Lorraine O'Garro?

3. Once more an unconscious passenger didn't fall from a moving train, putting "lie!" to the NYPD/MTA oft-repeated assurance that conscious passengers routinely fall to their deaths while walking between cars.

4. Despite the routine classification of all un-witnessed track killings as "accidents"the post-midnight hours are favored by subway killers which prompts this question: does Joseph Fox tell his young-adult relatives that the subways are safe to use at all hours?  Does the Transit Chief actually believe all those "accidents" were accidents?