In news that will (tragically) surprise no one, monstrous killer Waldo Mejia will escape for the moment a criminal trial over his vicious, random murder of Bronx 14-year-old Caleb Rijos.
A Bronx judge found him too crazy to stand trial.
Yet somehow other judges, and the justice system, never found him too crazy to be roaming the streets at will before the murder.
This is a man who allegedly stabbed a straphanger in a subway station mere feet from where he would eventually kill Rijos, a week before that tragedy occurred.
And Mejia had long terrorized neighbors, kicking in doors and stabbing a Ring camera.
That incident proved to any rational person beyond any doubt that Mejia should be involuntarily committed before he did something worse.
Instead, he was released on his own recognizance because the offense was non-bail-eligible under our monstrous criminal justice “reforms.”
And even that doesn’t exhaust Mejia’s criminal history.
In 2019, he set his girlfriend’s apartment lobby on fire — and again got let go on a conditional discharge. (How on Earth, then, was his Ring attack not enough to get him locked up?)
In 2017, he was arrested on weapons charges after getting caught with a loaded 9mm.
In 2015, he was caught with a gravity knife.
Chance after chance after chance to get this menace away from law-abiding people and into either prison or a secure psychiatric facility.
But because of lawless progressive policies and an utterly inadequate system for the violent mentally ill, Caleb Rijos died.
He didn’t have to.
His death was a choice made by our disorder-cheering electeds, and by the mental health bureaucrats who find it too burdensome to focus on the worst madmen.
Choices that leave these ticking time bombs loose until they finally do something horrible enough that it can no longer be ignored.
A system that only now admits that Waldo Mejia is crazy is itself insane.
