Subway killing stuns, divides New Yorkers: New York Times

NEW YORK, May 5 (Xinhua) -- For many New Yorkers, the choking of the 30-year-old homeless man, Jordan Neely, was a heinous act of public violence to be swiftly prosecuted, and represented a failure by the city to care for people with serious mental illness, reported The New York Times on Friday.

Many others who lamented the killing nonetheless saw it as a reaction to fears about public safety in New York, the mo