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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,136 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 04:40 PM Mar 2020

Woman, 86, dies after she's knocked to the ground by stranger for violating COVID-19 distancing

The NYPD is investigating what might be the city’s first coronavirus-related homicide — after a woman hit an elderly Brooklyn hospital patient in the head for violating social distancing, sources said Sunday.

Victim Janie Marshall, 86, died less than four hours after the tense confrontation with 32-year-old Cassandra Lundy in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Woodhull Hospital, cops said.

Marshall, who was at the hospital for a bowel obstruction, innocently grabbed a metal stand in a hallway near a bed where Lundy, a seizure patient, was sitting around 2 p.m. Saturday, police sources said.

Lundy lashed out, complaining Marshall wasn’t following coronavirus social distancing guidelines, and allegedly slugged her in the head, knocking her to the ground, according to police sources.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/brooklyn-woman-86-dies-after-shes-knocked-to-the-ground-by-stranger-for-violating-coronavirus-social-distancing-police-sources/ar-BB11Scct?li=BBnb7Kz

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Woman, 86, dies after she's knocked to the ground by stranger for violating COVID-19 distancing (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
It sounds like Lundy might have a developmental disability coti Mar 2020 #1
Why in the world would you think that? cwydro Mar 2020 #2
The information about her prior arrests is in the article at the link. madaboutharry Mar 2020 #5
Because it says she's a seizure patient. coti Mar 2020 #6
Or she's a violent piece of trash... Roland99 Mar 2020 #7
Thus the second part of the post nt coti Mar 2020 #8
Thank you. cwydro Mar 2020 #12
I would hope that you wouldn't be so quick to place such a nasty label coti Mar 2020 #15
Simplest explanation is she's just a fucking asshole. Iggo Mar 2020 #9
Whatever the reason, may she never get out of prison Polybius Mar 2020 #23
Very sad. Gun-humpers are buying up gunz and ammo, to protect their toilet Hoyt Mar 2020 #3
gunz and ammo, to protect their toilet paper and stuff... PoiBoy Mar 2020 #16
Yep. Or, if things get bad enough, the 3%ers and other white wingers will Hoyt Mar 2020 #17
Horrific. oasis Mar 2020 #4
Sadly, some people could use the crisis to bash the "other". n/t MarcA Mar 2020 #10
That poor old lady. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2020 #11
Well this is where hysteria is going to land us. EllieBC Mar 2020 #13
Lundy - 17 prior arrests, on charges including drug possession, trespass, assault and strangulation Demovictory9 Mar 2020 #14
Won't be last such incident, I'm afraid. Nt BootinUp Mar 2020 #18
Omg MustLoveBeagles Mar 2020 #19
What the fuck has happened to us? Jake Stern Mar 2020 #20
These type of people have always existed. Flaleftist Mar 2020 #21
Catherine Vincent Mar 2020 #22

coti

(4,612 posts)
1. It sounds like Lundy might have a developmental disability
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 04:42 PM
Mar 2020

though many priors, also, and a lot of violent behavior.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
2. Why in the world would you think that?
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 04:45 PM
Mar 2020

I worked with people with developmental disabilities for years. Never met a violent one

Did you see her rap sheet?

coti

(4,612 posts)
6. Because it says she's a seizure patient.
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 05:01 PM
Mar 2020

And if you've never met a person with DD and aggression difficulties, you have very limited experience.

That said, I only brought up the issue because the article said she has seizures, which can be incredibly debilitating.

coti

(4,612 posts)
15. I would hope that you wouldn't be so quick to place such a nasty label
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 07:42 PM
Mar 2020

on someone who might have a disability.

I realized long ago you didn't understand my reasoning for bringing up that possibility, but it's still something to think about.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Very sad. Gun-humpers are buying up gunz and ammo, to protect their toilet
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 04:55 PM
Mar 2020

paper and stuff. We’ll see more of this kind of stuff, unfortunately.

PoiBoy

(1,542 posts)
16. gunz and ammo, to protect their toilet paper and stuff...
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 10:08 PM
Mar 2020

...until they run out.. and then they'll use those gunz to plunder their neighbors and other innocents...










 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
17. Yep. Or, if things get bad enough, the 3%ers and other white wingers will
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 10:10 PM
Mar 2020

think they are the anointed leaders, or some such BS.

EllieBC

(3,031 posts)
13. Well this is where hysteria is going to land us.
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 06:15 PM
Mar 2020

I expect an increase in violence as people get more scared, supplies get scarce, and a solution (like a treatment or vaccine) is not to be found.

Demovictory9

(32,468 posts)
14. Lundy - 17 prior arrests, on charges including drug possession, trespass, assault and strangulation
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 06:59 PM
Mar 2020

Lundy, who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, has 17 prior arrests, on charges including drug possession, trespass, assault and strangulation, sources said.

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
20. What the fuck has happened to us?
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:33 PM
Mar 2020

An elderly woman is killed over coronavirus.

Some guys in Maine are unlawfully barricaded and threatened with violence by a mob of locals over coronavirus fears.

Even more disturbing is the fact that there are people who feel that these victims brought it on themselves.

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