A Democrat mayor is criticizing his own party after the hours-long fatal stabbing

New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on state leaders in Albany to voluntarily help move the mentally ill homeless off the city’s streets and care for them, citing Monday’s stabbing incident as the latest threat to unemployment in New York.

“Everybody said I’m inhumane, we just want to put people in institutions,” Adams said at a press conference on Tuesday. “Well, the result is the result. This is the result of not taking action and ignoring people who need help.”

Adams said city officials will look into how the law enforcement and mental health programs failed serial killer Ramon Rivera, who was arrested eight times before Monday’s alleged triple slaying.

“We have three New Yorkers killed in our city by someone who was betrayed by the health care system,” he said.

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Rivera, 51, was caught when the Samaritan driver alerted authorities, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny.

He stabbed and killed a 36-year-old man who was standing outside a construction site on the city’s West Side, then killed a second man who was fishing by stabbing him with multiple wounds on his body, police said. Rivera is said to have attacked a woman in an area far from the United Nations before he was arrested. That woman later died.

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Ramon Rivera, 51, is accused of killing three people during a stabbing in Manhattan on Monday. (Fox News Digital)

Surveillance footage taken from a business on West 19th Street and obtained by the New York Post allegedly shows Rivera wearing gloves and preparing a knife before the attack. Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that Rivera chose his victims because they were “lonely” and “disturbed.”

Rivera spent most of this year in prison and completed his most recent sentence for burglary and assault on October 17, the New York Post reported.

Rivera has a documented history of mental health concerns, and public records show he has been arrested or known to law enforcement in three other states, NBC News reported.

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Two kitchen knives, one bloody, were used by a homeless man to kill three people in New York City on Monday in a series of random, unprovoked attacks, police said. (NYPD)

Adams described steps the city has taken to get the mentally ill off the streets and subway system, including efforts to transition to small mental health “clubhouses” — day centers that connect them with community, art therapy and sometimes jobs.

However, Adams said he needs help from the state capital. The Supportive Interventions Act, his bill to expand the city’s authority to force sick people off the streets into mental health care, has not yet become law.

Law enforcement officials work at the scene of a stabbing near the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

“We’ve been coming back to Albany to say let’s unify the law and provide real clarity about the authority we have to deal with people with severe mental illness,” he said at his Tuesday briefing.

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Rivera was charged with three counts of multiple murders in a Manhattan court a few hours after Adams was notified.