Man stabbed repeatedly on Boston Common; suspect quickly arrested

i used to take my kids in to walk around on warm summer days like my father did with me when i was a kid. the last few years you could feel it getting more and more dangerous on all sections of the common. it used to be just one bad corner now it seems to be the whole place. we stopped going through DTX several years ago because with all the stores boarded up it just seemed like a place for drug addicts and mentally iill people to gather and harass people passing through. after today i don’t think i’ll be bringing my kids back in to walk around on beautiful days anymore. this city is in a steady decline. who’s going to save it?

That whole area has been a mess for a long time. It's getting worse. Drug activity, fights and all kinds of criminal behavior is an all day, everyday occurrence.
Downtown Crossing (Washington Street and the side streets that run off of it) is a sad place. There is an abundance of vacant store fronts, drug addicts, homeless people and a noticeable number of mentally ill people. This is an area that should be a showcase for Boston. Instead, it's an area to bypass or avoid.
The mayor should take a very serious look at cleaning it up and restoring it to the place it used to be.
Happy Independence Day to everyone!

Did they have informed consent from the survivor to take personal photos during someone's most vulnerable moments?* They don't legally need consent to photograph in a public place, but what does it add to the story other than shock value? Could they not have stuck with non-identifying, non-intimate photos of the person being loaded into the ambulance like most outlets do?

(*This is a rhetorical question. Someone can't consent to anything aside from life-saving treatment while bleeding on a stretcher after a sudden violent attack.)

Not to sound callous but this is part of city life, albeit the kind of life that we don't want in nicer parts of Boston.

For this person who was trying to hurt or kill people: Why? Is he susceptible to the o of violence that is part of the character of the US? Most folks are not; but in a nation where violence is praised as a means of settling scores or just as glamorous there will be folks who fall prey to that kind of thinking (e.g., sovereign nationalists and white supremacists).

Violence is part of human culture. So is compassion and kindness. Is it possible that the folks who are furthest on the edges of good psychological health are also reflections of what extremes our values include? That is including as a positive value violence? Don the Don and his cohorts make that part their philosophy: That violence, destruction and even death is a good thing.

I remember the personal history of Carravagio during his time in Rome it was illegal to carry swords at night. Why? Because people were killing each other!

What is more frightening is if the current majority of the Supreme Court's validation and support for our base instinct of violence (via guns) will result in more guns moving from hand to hand and ultimately more violence?