If his example leads to a neighborhood watch of people with masks that help make Newark a better place, then he's done a boon to us all and his efforts are laudable.

If his example leads to a neighborhood watch of people with no masks that help make Newark a better place, then he's done a boon to us all and his efforts are laudable.

I'm assuming Midnight is a grown adult human, which means he can make his own choices. I think someone whose activities thus far are walking the streets and keeping an eye out or distributing hand warmers to unhoused people at Penn Station is far, far removed from a comic book superhero swooping in to save the innocent directly. He seems like a sensible enough human being to know when not to charge up to an assailant - I hope this much, at least - and I'd rather have someone who attempts to do good than not.

He's out to set a positive example, period. IMO it's unfair to compare him to the Guardian Angels, mostly because they're a funded organization with what I understand to be some degree of training on what they can, cannot, should, and should not do as a volunteer, with some form of relationship with the NYPD. This is one person who wants to make a difference. If he wants to lead by example rather than by organization, who are we to tell him no?