A criminal who had been let out of jail 17 times stabbed two teens in New York City on Christmas Day. The tragic event occurred in Grand Central Station with Steven Hutcherson, who is described as a vagrant, yelling "I want all white people dead" during the attack. The two teens were eating breakfast with their family at the time.

A troubled vagrant randomly stabbed two teenage girls enjoying a Christmas morning meal with their parents at a Grand Central Terminal restaurant — after ranting that he wanted “all white people dead,” authorities said.

The girls, 14- and 16-year-olds visiting from South America, were attacked at Tartinery in the Grand Central Dining Concourse around 11:25 a.m. Monday and suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds, police and sources said. 

“I want all the white people dead,” the suspect, Steven Hutcherson, 36, allegedly yelled, according to police sources. “I want to sit next to the crackers.”

He then allegedly lunged at the unsuspecting teens, plunging a knife into the 16-year-old’s back, nicking her lungs, and stabbing the younger girl in the thigh, police and a law enforcement source said.

Hutcherson had been arrested for illegal weapon possession and making threats just two weeks prior. Unfortunately, New York City's "bail reform" laws put him right back on the street, and this time, he finally snapped. The man who was the target of those threats expressed his outrage that Hutcherson was cut loose. 

Yussif Abdullahi, 46, was outraged after learning that Steven Hutcherson, 36, had been cut loose by a Bronx judge —  just two weeks before he allegedly randomly knifed a 14-year-old girl and her 16-year-old sister as they enjoyed a Christmas Day meal with their family at a restaurant in the Grand Central concourse.

“They shouldn’t have let him out [of jail]. I don’t believe it,” he told The Post.

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Hutcherson — a homeless man with a lengthy rap sheet and history of mental illness — then suddenly turned his ire on Abdullahi, yelling: “Why are you working for white people? I’m going to kill this man!”

“I’m gonna shoot you. I don’t care what kind of green card the government gave you,” Hutcherson said, according to the criminal complaint against him. “Open your mouth and say something. I will shoot you right now.”

A judge did not see fit to keep Hutcherson, a man with an already lengthy rap sheet, in jail following that altercation. Now, the two teens will never be the same even though they thankfully lived through the ordeal. The entire situation is maddening. 

These bail reform laws are destroying what little semblance of safety may have existed in these major cities. It's clear given the instances described above that Hutcherson is a racist, but he's also obviously deranged and mentally ill. Why would any city want to allow people like that to roam the streets, posing a threat to innocent bystanders? If you let a crazed criminal go enough times, they are eventually going to do something serious.

How did we get to this place? I ask that rhetorically because we got to this place due to voters who decided virtue signaling through "reform" prosecutors was more important than basic safety, and that includes the safety of these mentally ill individuals who are also being harmed by facing no consequences for their actions. The best thing that could happen is to reinstitute the forced commitment of these repeat offenders. I understand there's a libertarian case against it, but without some basic guardrails in society, you get chaos, and that chaos is leading to far worse things. 

New York City residents and residents of other cities with "bail reform" (Los Angeles, Chicago, etc.) need to wake up. This isn't going to get better. Vote to save yourselves or watch your cities disintegrate further.