Are tasers legal in NYC ?

[Satyrical]

Maybe pepper spray is safer? You can always carry it in your hand, I never heard of it killing someone and they have ones with color so the attacker will glow neon. Also, I don't think it can be qualified as excessive force because I haven't heard of any victim being sued for using it.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by CNYC

You can always carry a walking cane with an ice gripper on it. Those are 100% LEGAL.

Human popsicle.. not a good look.

[NjDevils3027]

Originally Posted by NotInNYC

Also about the story above at Grand Central, after watching the woman with a bloody face, when my train arrived the car I first almost got into had a drugged homeless guy laying on the ground of the car in front of the subway door. So the hipster Liberal Progressive kids went in that car and just walked around this guy all nonchalantly like this is just how it is in the big city. Stupid Liberals. So the guy was out like a light laying there On The Ground (looking almost dead) laying In Front of the opening subway door which would block any sensible person from walking in that door, but the trendy Liberals just walked around the guy. So I decided to go in one car down where it was a little safer feeling.

Now I find this other story of a subway attack from today around the same time, which could be overlapping or not. It was some guy attacked in the subway under Bryant Park.

It is just non stop madness and lawlessness down there?

Stay safe people!

You need to relax. Now people are "stupid trendy liberal progressive kids" for walking around a guy to get on the subway and get to where they need to go? What should they do, stand in shock and awe? Go cry about it on City Data forum?

[D. Scott]

Originally Posted by NotInNYC

“ I have the strikelight 2 in my car for light work.” Haha how nice.

The thing about all these subway attacks is the victims are always caught off guard. The attackers come from out of nowhere really fast. Even vigilant people with street smarts are caught off guard and then in a state of surprise after the attack happens.

Myself, I am always vigilant and watching around my back and scanning my environments. On the sidewalks I look behind me and if a person looks stressed or they look off, I will pull over and wait for them to pass. So I go into high cortisol mode outside.

Just today: I walked down to a subway platform at Grand Central and saw on the other platform a woman was attacked in the face and a couple police were there consoling her. She said somebody punched her in the face. There was blood. It was a middle aged black woman and she looked street smart like a native New Yorker possibly. She was just surprised anybody hit her out of nowhere. Also, typically there were some transplant kids nearby me acting like it was no biggie they acted all nonchalant. No biggie for the transplant hipsters. So I said hi to this other woman who was a normal city person who was watching the whole thing unfold and she at least had a heart and we both admitted things are out of hand violence wise in the city.

Moral or the story is the attackers are more street savvy than us. They know how to sneak around in the shadows so people will not have time to whip out a taser.

I feel the same. I never sit on the subway, back is always to the wall on the platform. Its way easier to evade or fight from a standing position vs a seated one. The attacks are mostly on women or elderly. There was another one at Jay st on the A I think yesterday. It was TWO men who attacked a woman. A man intervened and got punched but it helped stop the attack it seems.