Posted on July 15, 2015 by Laura Nahmias in Capital New York Capital New York, By Laura Nahmias The homeless man whose picture has appeared several times on the cover of the New York Post because of his habit of urinating in public is a schizophrenic whose symptoms are being exacerbated by all the media attention, police commissioner Bill Bratton said Wednesday. In recent days, the Post’s coverage of the homeless man, identified as 49-year-old John Tucker, has sparked widespread criticism on Twitter and elsewhere from other media outlets and reporters, who say the paper’s coverage is excessive and gratuitously cruel.
