Despite stating they are an "open" and "inclusive" space, the MoMa banned one of its members leading him to stab two employees.
Last Saturday’s stabbing of two Museum of Modern Art clerks was distressing, but it wasn’t shocking. Most of us know by now that violence has soared in New York City. What is shocking to the few remaining naïve urban innocents who think that Gotham doesn’t need proactive law enforcement is the revelation of an open secret: MoMA, a supposedly liberal arts institution, practices broken-windows policing.
Gary Cabana, the stabbings suspect, wasn’t a stranger to the gallery. But after he behaved in a disruptive manner twice this year, the museum banished him, revoking his membership.
Cabana’s earlier disorderly conduct didn’t rise to felony level. Yet MoMA banned him anyway. Why?
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
This piece originally appeared in New York Post