This year alone, at least six New York City women have been killed by strangers: Jennifer Ynoa, Kristal Bayron-Nieves, Michelle Go, Dorothy Clarke-Rozier, Gloria Ortiz and Christina Yuna Lee.
Erik Bottcher, my city councilman, says his mother is afraid to come to New York City, worried that she will be “hit.” She’s not wrong. The elected officials who claim to champion women’s rights aren’t taking women’s justified fears seriously.
It’s no accident that when Frank Abrokwa allegedly smeared his feces on a victim in a Bronx subway station on Feb. 21, the victim was a woman.
Before the attack, the suspect tried to hit on his victim, saying, “How come you don’t want to talk to me?”
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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.
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