In New York City, locals simply take justice into their own hands. Police officials have become such failures that citizens don’t even bother calling the cops anymore. The anarchy has been brewing for a lot longer than just this past year in Democrat political strongholds where they defund, defile, and demonize law enforcement.
Street justice caught on camera
Some of the suspects wanted in connection with a January 22 beating outside a bus station in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, turned themselves in on Friday. They weren’t the ones doing the beating, kicking and stomping but they know why it was being done.
Their lawyers demand all charges be dropped against the Nimmons family, and there’s a good reason for it too. 20-year-old Jahi Nimmons was the victim of armed robbery and the guy who got thumped was allegedly the one who did it. Under New York street justice rules, it wasn’t a crime, it was “retaliation.”
Jahi Nimmons was joined by family members Tiffany, age 36, Tyriek, age 32, and 27-year-old family friend Tymantha Richardson to surrender to authorities on Friday. The group was well lawyered up and insist that justice is on their side.
They were booked on charges of robbery and gang assault. The lawyers are convinced those charges won’t stick. The attorneys argue that their clients “were not the ones doing the kicking and punching,” but they do admit “they didn’t exactly denounce it either.”
Around 11:30 a.m. outside the Chinatown bus depot at Canal and Allen Streets on January 22, surveillance video captured a disturbing beat-down. Nimmons family attorneys explain that “video of the incident does not tell the whole story.”
The man may have been beaten senseless, but he wasn’t the victim. It was simply a case of instant mob vigilantism. “The mom was screaming out, they robbed my son” The family couldn’t help it if “people just decided to just jump and they were doing the assaulting because that’s called street justice,” McCall asserts.
Don’t rush to judge
Attorney Sanford Rubenstein was quick to tell reporters not to draw hasty conclusions from the camera footage. “Clearly, there should be no rush to judgment here. This young man is turning himself in. He’s a victim, not a perpetrator,” he announced, referring to Jahi Nimmons.
Justice requires weighing all the facts. The man being pummeled, kicked, stomped and stripped was none other than “26-year-old ex-convict Walter Ward” who terrorized Jahi across state lines for hours, robbing him “at gunpoint on the bus.”
Jahi was warned not to call the cops so he did something even better, he had another passenger text his grandmother. That was all the justice he needed. “As he was sitting on the bus, he was in fear of his life,” attorney Kevin McCall relates.
The gun toting thug demanded “Nimmons hand over Yeezy sneakers worth more than $1,000, an Apple Watch, other expensive clothes, and two cell phones.” The drama unfolded on an overnight 14-hour bus ride up from Atlanta, Georgia.
Somewhere along the line, Nimmons whispered to another passenger to text his grandmother “I got robbed on the bus and they took everything. Don’t panic.” Grandma backs his story.
“And he told him, if the cops are there in New York, I’m killing you and your whole family. I have your ID right here.” Grandma knew just what to do and the family got justice. Now they will see what the court has to say.
