Incident in a park in Michigan

Wanna know what the Democrats' policy of tolerating (ignoring) public drug use and de-institutionalizing the mentally ill have done for America?  Here ya go:

In Michigan a family was celebrating a child's first birthday at a local park.  The boy's grandfather noticed a goblin nearby huffing some sort of chemical from a spray can.  The grandfather approached the druggie and asked him to stop doing drugs in front of the children.

The druggie pulled out a machete and stabbed the grandfather at least 15 times, killing him.  One witness said the attacker "was enraged.  He seemed like he had the strength of the Tasmanian devil." 

Cops caught the killer, but not one of the local papers or TV stations said a word on the killer's name or any other detail.  Which is, um...kind of odd for so-called "journalists", who used to be into that "who what where why when" thingy.  But in certain cases they seem, like, totally uninterested.   Hard to figure out a pattern.

 

Details here , here and here.

Now: Offhand I'd guess that nationwide, some druggie kill some innocent person twice a week--usually during a home invasion or robbery.  What made this murder more shocking than most was how pointless it was.  (Not that the others are much easier to rationalize.)  But the real eye-opener was in the 2000-odd comments to the piece.  See how many you agree are "common knowledge."

"In most every liberal city drug addicts have taken over the parks."

"In cities run by liberals police are SCARED to intervene for fear of losing their job and pension."

"America is definitely losing the war on drugs."

My sense of it is that we've lost it completely:  Democrats in several U.S. cities give junkies free syringes with needles, and have officially proposed setting up "shooting galleries" for heroin addicts.  Fairly clear message there.

"If it was California a liberal judge would release the killer in a day, without requiring any bail."

"Radical 'progressive' subversives are minting lost souls wrecked by their politicization who now wander our streets without civility or conscience, along with millions of illegal aliens."

"His public defender will blame the grandfather for upsetting the druggie and will say the druggie should get maybe 30 days due to 'diminished capacity'--it was the drugs.  And Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, Warren and all the other Democrat senators and representatives will agree."

Then the inevitable liberal chimes in that the grandfather should have ignored the guy using drugs in front of children in the park, and deserved to be killed for calling out the drug use.  Seriously.  And the same commenter made several other comments that showed he wasn't being sarcastic.