The violence is so bad at New York City migrant shelters that authorities are installing security cameras and considering metal detectors as cops face “an influx of knives; just wait until they get the guns.” “say officials and police sources.
The latest bloodshed includes a fatal stabbing on Jan. 7 and Thursday’s mass brawl and stabbing, both at the tented shelter on Randall’s Island.
“They are not using metal detectors. … If they were, the knives wouldn’t be happening,” a security guard at the site told The Post on Friday, noting that people arriving at the shelter are not vetted beyond scanning their IDs.
“Everyone can have a knife, can have something. So it’s not a good environment,” she said.
“Security is not good. Is not safe. If you tell me it’s safe, it’s not. “We are trying to do the best we can, but we are outnumbered,” he stated.
José Chica, 42, recently arrived from Ecuador, said conditions at the shelter are “dangerous.
“There are many problems here. I don’t mess with anyone. Nobody.”
Security cameras were in the process of being installed at the makeshift shelter Friday morning, and the possibility of adding metal detectors was being discussed to further improve security there and elsewhere, as the city struggles with the mass influx. of migrants from South and Central America, more than 150,000 in total, who have arrived in New York since spring 2022.
A law enforcement source told The Post on Friday that it is time to be realistic about security measures at immigration facilities, and that failure to do so puts public safety at risk.
A migrant was taken into police custody Friday morning outside the tent city of Randall’s Island for allegedly hitting his partner, a fellow asylum seeker told The Post. J. Messerschmidt for the New York Post
“We cannot continue down this path of hosting hundreds and hundreds of people without establishing such security measures. “We need to do this for the sake of the staff, the immigrants and New Yorkers in general,” the source said.
“We cannot continue to gather thousands of people in such restricted conditions without metal detectors or cameras. We are now dealing with an influx of knives; “Just wait until they get the weapons.”
The heightened security measures began after a pair of knife attacks this month, including the Jan. 7 fatal stabbing on Randall’s Island that police say stemmed from a fight over a woman.
The 24-year-old victim was brutally attacked at the shelter by four people after he spoke to one of the men’s girlfriends, sources said. One of the attackers pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the neck and chest. The victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Immigrants line up outside an intake center on Hall Street in Brooklyn on Friday. Pablo Martinka
Asylum seekers told The Post at the time that crime has worsened as migrant groups have splintered into factions, dividing into armed “camps” based on their ethnic group and country of origin.
“Everyone has a knife,” migrant Mauricio Pinto said after the fatal stabbing.
Simmering violence has escalated into an all-out brawl on more than one occasion, most recently on Thursday afternoon when two rival groups of migrants, armed with knives and rocks, began fighting inside the shelter before the conflict spread to the streets, sources said.
During the chaos, a 24-year-old man was stabbed. Paramedics took him to Harlem Hospital and he is in stable condition. The attacker remained at large as of Friday afternoon, police said. Eighteen people were arrested after the incident.
The incident echoed another group fight on Jan. 6, when violence broke out outside an East Village immigration center in Manhattan after someone tried to cut the line of about 400 asylum seekers and allegedly spilled his coffee on others. in line.
One man hit the string cutter and fell to the ground in the melee that followed, witnesses said.
At least two NYPD officers were injured in the fight and two men were arrested.
Security guards have battled a rising wave of violence at migrant shelters, including Randall’s Island, which has been the scene of a large fight and two recent stabbings, one of which was fatal. Peter Gerber
Soaring tensions and grim conditions have also led to at least one incident of domestic violence on Randall’s Island. A migrant allegedly hit his partner and was arrested Friday morning.
Even beyond the climate of rampant violence, deteriorating conditions on Randall’s Island are apparently taking an alarming toll on the health of its temporary residents.
On Friday afternoon, a teenage girl was attacked in one of the small tents set up outside the shelter for those who have been told to find another home. A migrant carried her in his arms, desperately trying to find help from her as her legs shook and shook off her.
Police at the scene carried her to a van and comforted her before EMS arrived about 20 minutes later.
“They don’t have a bed there. “They stay here because it’s better than being on the street,” one migrant told reporters about those in the ad hoc tents, adding that the woman who suffered the seizure sometimes jumps over the fence to use the bathroom in the shelter to keep warm.
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