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Mamdani and Hochul yuck it up after another attack by a mentally ill NYC criminal

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Random attacks on New York transit have soared since 2020, and the reason is often violent psychosis that severs a person’s link to reality. Such symptoms were on display after Sunday night’s mass knifing at Penn Station, which injured five people. To wit: the morning after the attack, Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani were delusionally raving.

Sunday’s alleged Penn Station attacker, Hector Deleon, 51, has a history of violence. In 2022, he pled guilty in New Jersey to stabbing a victim in the neck, after that person ordered him off private property following previous thefts.

Stabbing someone in the neck — the victim needed nine stitches — isn’t exactly a non-violent crime. But a judge gave him probation, and ordered him to continue mental-health treatment and perform community service.

That didn’t take. He faced rearrest last month for stealing from a Jersey Dunkin’ tip jar, but went free again despite his history.

Deleon is crazy but maybe not that crazy: possibly upset about his looming court appearance next week on that charge, he somehow made his way to New York, armed, to harm as many people as he could in a high-profile location.

He chose our interstate transit hub — the nexus of the Knicks playoffs and of travel to the Jersey World........

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