Newly Freed John Hinckley Jr. Loses Sold-Out Brooklyn Concert Gig

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John Hinckley Jr., released from court supervision today 41 years after his attempted assassination in 1981 of President Ronald Reagan, won’t be making music in Brooklyn next month after all.

A long-planned concert at a hip venue in the Bushwick neighborhood has been canceled out of safety concerns.Hinckley, a singer-songwriter who has released his music on streaming sites and a YouTube channel, was set to have made his first post-release concert appearance at the Market Hotel venue on July 8.

The show, which quickly sold out in recent weeks, was canceled by the venue today for what the proprietors said was, in part, concern “for the safety of our vulnerable communities…”Though the venue operators defended the initial decision to open the club to Hinckley, noting that the 67-year-old singer-guitarist’s planned concert tour “sends a message that mental health issues and a criminal past can be recovered from and atoned for, after serving one’s debt to society and getting real treatment” – ultimately the security risks weren’t worth the gamble.“If we were going to host an event for the principle, and potentially put others at risk in doing so, it shouldn’t be for some stunt booking — no offense to the artist,” the venue said in a statement on its Instagram page.  “We might feel differently if we believed the music was important and transcended the infamy, but that’s just not the case here.”All restrictions on Hinckley’s freedom were lifted today in a move that has been expected since last fall, when U.S.

District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman said he’d free Hinckley if he remained mentally stable and residing in the Virginia community where he has lived under supervision since 2016.“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days,