Another Person ‘intentionally’ set on fire in New York:

In yet another grotesque display of violence in New York City’s deteriorating public spaces, a 67-year-old man was deliberately set on fire at Penn Station, a mere days after a similar barbaric act in a Brooklyn subway. This latest outrage unfolded just before 8pm when MTA police, already desensitized to the city’s daily horrors, stumbled upon a man engulfed in flames near the subway entrance. The sheer apathy of bystanders is almost as shocking as the crime itself. The victim, with severe burns to his legs and upper body, was rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed in ‘stable’ condition – a term that barely masks the grotesque reality of his ordeal. Meanwhile, the scene at the station was a pathetic tableau of police tape and scattered clothing, with authorities bumbling around a New Jersey Transit tunnel, supposedly looking for clues but more likely adding to the circus. This incident, shockingly, echoes another recent atrocity where an illegal migrant, Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, allegedly turned a subway car into a scene from a nightmare by setting a woman ablaze. Now facing multiple charges including murder and arson, Zapeta-Calil has chosen not to grace the court with his presence, further highlighting the mockery that is our justice system. As we reel from one act of barbarism to another, it’s clear that our city’s infrastructure has become a playground for the cruel and the lawless. The police, now more detectives of despair than guardians of peace, are left sifting through security footage, hoping to piece together how such vile acts continue to plague our streets. With Zapeta-Calil’s arraignment looming, one can only hope that justice, if it exists at all, will not be as slow and ineffective as the response to these crimes has been.