What Has Happened To New York City?

Around 500,000 mostly wealthy New York residents fled the city when Covid-19 hit the city, leaving parts on Manhattan, famously the ‘city that never sleeps’, resembling a ghost town. Above, A NYPD police car is set on fire as protesters clash with police

Daily Mail: Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee

* The number of shooting victims has gone up 51 per cent to 616 this year in NYC
* In June, there were 250 shootings compared to 97 in the same month in 2019
* Many blame New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, who has slashed police funding
* New York state has suffered the highest coronavirus death toll in America

Two bullet-ridden bodies lay sprawled on bloodstained concrete steps. Alongside, relatives of the victims are wailing and collapse to the ground. In another part of the city, a gang of youths use spray paint to disable security cameras before robbing a corner store. Later, video footage captures police officers sitting helplessly in their patrol car as a baying crowd hurls glass bottles at them.

This is lawless New York – a city that was once America’s glittering crown jewel but which risks descending into mob rule.

Murder figures have skyrocketed and a combination of the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and weak political leadership is in danger of achieving what Osama Bin Laden never could: bringing the Big Apple to its knees.

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Update #1: New York City violence: NYC endures spree of violence overnight (ABC 7 News)
Update #2: Bloody wave of violence plagues NYC overnight, at least 1 dead (New York Post)

WNU Editor: I have a lot of friends who live and work in New York City. Almost all of them, if they had the chance, would move.