Imprisoning the ill

The guy had been arrested 14 times and should not have been out on no cash bail. Clearly he had mental health problems and should’ve been in prison where he couldn’t murder a woman on public transit.

Does America incarcerate people who have coronary problems, kidney problems, cancer problems, mental health problems? Have any other societies done that to eliminate such problems?

This is a terrible tragedy. It is a personal tragedy for the woman killed, her friends, and family. It is a personal tragedy for the mentally ill man and his family. But it is also an indictment of a political ethos that pours billions into prisons and says that ill people should be imprisoned.

By the way, his arrest earlier this year was for the heinous offence of phoning 911 saying that he was being controlled by something inside his body.

When he was arrested in January for misusing 911, she said he kept saying “he had a chip in him," and that "the police put it in him." According to the affidavit from Brown’s arrest in January, officers were responding to a welfare call when Brown told them he believed someone gave him a “man-made” material that controlled what he ate and how he walked and talked.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-sister-charlotte-stabbing-suspect-describe-history-mental/story?id=125451590

You omitted these arrests (from your article):
“The 34-year-old suspect has a criminal record including larceny and breaking and entering charges. He also spent five years in prison for robbery with a dangerous weapon”

He’s a criminal and should’ve been in prison where he couldn’t murder people. This is common sense not rocket science.

You do NOT have common sense. Black U.S. citizens have the highest wrongful conviction rates in the history of the U.S.

A young white man in the South with an obvious mental illness as this man had would likely have been treated for bipolar disorder (or whatever he suffered from) and he would have led a very different life afterward. Young black men are tossed in jail like so much trash to be rid of time after time. No mental health diagnosis or treatment. Just another criminal according to your "common sense". I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you're a pale-skinned person.