{"id":121319,"date":"2020-11-27T01:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T22:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-system-didnt-help-accused-nyc-subway-shover-michael-medlock\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T01:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T22:43:51","slug":"the-system-didnt-help-accused-nyc-subway-shover-michael-medlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-system-didnt-help-accused-nyc-subway-shover-michael-medlock\/","title":{"rendered":"#The system didn’t help\u00a0accused NYC subway-shover Michael Medlock"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The system didn’t help\u00a0accused NYC subway-shover Michael Medlock<\/strong>”
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\n It\u2019s a heartbreaking story that\u2019s grown all too common in this city: The grandma of the homeless man charged with shoving a straphanger onto Brooklyn subway tracks says she tried for years to get him help \u2014 but the system failed at every turn.<\/p>\n

Police say the victim, 29, was on a 4 train with his girlfriend around 11:30 a.m. Sunday when Michael Medlock, 33, woke up and started screaming. When the couple got off at Atlantic Avenue, he followed and allegedly shoved the man onto the tracks.<\/p>\n

Medlock has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. He\u2019s been living on the streets since management banned him from his grandmother\u2019s East New York apartment building.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been having problems with him since the third grade,\u201d Medlock\u2019s grandmother Athense told The Post. \u201cI\u2019m angry with the system. I tried and tried to get help for him. They said if he is not a danger to himself, there is nothing they can do.\u201d One 311 operator told her he just needed detox. Officials refused to keep him in the hospital when he was taken there two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

The footage of the subway shove puts Athense in tears. \u201cI\u2019m sorry he hurt someone,\u201d she said. \u201cHe is not a bad person. He needs help.\u201d Thousands of similar people across town need help \u2014 but the system won\u2019t provide it. Family members often try to get action before their loved ones hurt someone, only to learn that officials refuse to act until physical harm\u2019s been done.<\/p>\n

Justin Pena, 23, is accused of another recent subway shove. Months ago, law enforcement told one of his past victims he\u2019d soon be back out on the streets and attack again. Pena has been in and out of Bellevue, living with his mother and on the streets in between.<\/p>\n

\u201cSociety did not do nothing for my son,\u201d Angela Pena lamented to The Post, saying he didn\u2019t get the help he needed to stay on meds for bipolar disorder. \u201cHelp my son, please!\u201d she begged. \u201cIf you help him, he would not get in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

ThriveNYC, the de Blasio mental-health initiative, is a $1.25 billion boondoggle of \u201cwellness\u201d programs that avoid the hardest cases, the estimated 90,000 untreated seriously mentally ill who cycle in and out of shelters, the streets, hospitals and jails.<\/p>\n

These are New York City\u2019s most desperately needy denizens. Yet the mayor who claims to care most about \u201csocial<\/a> justice\u201d does less for them than the predecessors he condemned as heartless.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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