Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as well as two local Manhattan politicians, are celebrating the signing of a law that intends to ensure long-term psychiatric help for people found mentally incapable of standing criminal trial in New York.
The “SUPPORT Act”—that’s Support and Provide Psychiatric Outreach and Rehabilitative Treatment Act—was signed into law by NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Dec. 23.
NYS Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, explained that he was spurred to develop the legislation after working with Justin Go. Go is the father of Michelle Go, the 40-year-old Chinese-American woman who was fatally shoved in front of an oncoming subway train at the Times Square-42nd Street station back in 2022. Her death spurred the #StopAsianHate movement against the rise in hate crimes against East Asians in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, although her attack was deemed to be the result of mental illness and not racially motivated…