Gutfeld! Monologues - Deadly Compassion: When “Empathy” Frees Killers

Episode Date: May 12, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld! Greg discusses how a victim's wokeness helped keep a subway attacker on the streets of New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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when a man shoved him down a flight of stairs from behind, killing him. Sorry, I lied. Not a fun story at all. Police later arrested this guy, Ramel Burke, and get this, it's his first arrest. He never committed a violent crime before. Sorry, I lied again. He's been arrested four times since February. Even more infuriating, last month, he assaulted a man and a woman on the subway and got arrested,

but the victims didn't cooperate with prosecutors. It's a decision the 23-year-old woman says she now. regrets. And that's big of her. She told the New York Post, quote, I regret it 100%. And I actually feel really bad that a man lost his life. Maybe a part of me was just like, I don't want to put another black man in jail. But you know, at some point, if you're a criminal, you're a criminal and he was scary. Yeah, almost as scary as you're cowardice. But I think when people say they don't want to see another black man in jail, they usually mean an innocent one. You know, like O.J. Simpson. But this thug attacks strangers.

Yet all she saw was his race and made an excuse for him. He's black, so it's okay that he commits violent crime. Her reaction is as racist as crashing your car to celebrate Asian Awareness Month. I've done that. Congrats. Meanwhile, violent crime in the subway is up. It's the fourth murder in the subway this year. up from one this time last year. It's only May. But this is how a broken culture leads to horrific outcomes,

a culture where everyone slowly learns to live around insanity. That woman decided that she could live with a criminal being on the street and an old man paid for that with his life. In basketball, they would give that lady an assist. She accepted an intolerable outcome, which put the rest of us in the crosshairs of madmen. Mad men who figured out that, that if they got away with crime in the past, why stop now? Because now, simply enforcing the law is oppressive. And maybe you should ignore your own instincts because otherwise somebody might call you racist.

Hey, instead of crossing the street, I'm going to walk right through this street gang. Hey, maybe they'll wave the initiation when they hear my Wu-Tang ringtone. But refusing to acknowledge danger doesn't eliminate it. It just transferred the risks onto innocent people. It's fake compassion. Not empathy, it's surrender.

Because the burden of that compassion never falls on the elites who push it. AOC is in an Uber, and Joe Biden gets around in a hearse. Nope, it falls on the working woman riding the train home at midnight, the grandmother walking to church, the retired teacher going down the subway stairs. It's never the politician returning from a meeting

on how to raise your tax. Instead, it's the same minority as the left claim to protect that absorbs the risk. But the typical female Democrat is more scared of being called a racist than her own death. So they sacrifice safety and they stop believing that cooperation matters, which makes the system even weaker and creates even more chaos. So it's not just the killer who's guilty. It's a mindset belonging to so many so-called empathetic morons who make the killer's mission easier. It's a culture that romanticizes dysfunction and demonizes law and order, creating a public that would put their lives at risk to avoid getting a mean comment on Facebook.

But when enough people decide that, eventually someone innocent pays the price, and next time it just might be them. Let's welcome! Listen ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members can listen to this show ad-free on the Amazon Music app. Thank you.