Joe Biden descended on New York City last week to meet Adams and New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, at the New York police department headquarters, to discuss rising crime across the US. He referred to the way some New Yorkers now “feel as though there’s a total level of disorder in our subway system”. A former police captain who ran for office on law-and-order talking points, Adams said Go’s death “just really doubled down on our concerns that our system must be safe”. The new mayor, Eric Adams, has responded forcefully. Whoever her alleged killer is, or whatever his motives, Go’s death seemed to crystallize many New Yorkers’ sense of fear that their subway, infamously dangerous decades ago, was once again becoming unsafe – due to random crime or an influx of at-risk persons acting erratically, or both. Although police said there was no indication that Go’s death was an anti-Asian hate crime, prosecutors said they were examining “every piece of evidence to determine if defendant’s actions were motivated by racial bias”. He reportedly had a history of severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, and had cycled between hospitals and jails over the years the New York Times reported he was unhoused. The chief suspect in her killing, Martial Simon, has two violent felonies on his record and a warrant out for allegedly violating his parole. She was of Asian descent, at a time when anti-Asian hate crimes have been surging across New York City, including in the subways. She was hit by the incoming train and killed. As she was checking her phone, a man shoved her from behind as a train roared into the station. Go, 40, a senior manager at Deloitte, was on her way to work. Around 9.30am on 15 January of this year, Michelle Go was waiting for a train at Times Square subway station.
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