Misplaced Outrage: The Sentence Isn’t the Story in Eina Kwon’s Murder

There is public outrage that Cordell Goosby will be sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. Before addressing that, two things need to be said. Some of that outrage is racially motivated. The instinct to send a Black man to prison rather than seek treatment. Had the perpetrator been white, many of those same voices would not react so strongly. That applies to some people, not all.

Now let's turn to those whose outrage is genuine and not rooted in racial bias. To those people, I say your outrage is misplaced. It should not be focused on where Cordell Goosby is sent. It should be focused on the fact that the deaths of Eina Kwon and her unborn baby could have been prevented. I believe those deaths could have been prevented and that is where our energy must go.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

We cannot change what happened after the crime. We cannot change that Goosby will be sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. What we can change is the conditions that allowed this tragedy to happen in the first place.

Cordell Goosby had a documented history of mental illness. This was a random attack one of many in cities across the country. In Seattle, an elderly woman was attacked and lost an eye. Also in Seattle, another elderly woman had her finger bitten off by a man trying to steal her ring, likely a homeless individual seeking money for drugs, who was never caught. In Chicago, a homeless man with a history of mental illness set a woman on fire in a random attack on public transit. In North Carolina, a woman was stabbed in the neck and killed in a random attack carried out by a homeless man with a long history of mental illness.

So how could the deaths of Eina Kwon and her baby have been prevented? One answer lies in reforming our approach to homelessness and mental health. Part of Kincaid's plan to combat homelessness includes changing civil commitment laws to allow for long term involuntary commitment for individuals with severe mental illness and drug addiction, and to build more long term care facilities. This is the most reliable way to ensure these individuals receive the help they need while protecting public safety. It would also create thousands of new jobs. Jobs that cannot easily be replaced by artificial intelligence or robotics.

We live in a world where anyone can be randomly attacked and killed. We cannot accept this as normal. It is the duty of every generation to build a better future for the next. We are currently failing that duty. If we do not act, we are building a dark future.

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