Police bodycam footage shows the rescue of a Kentucky woman who had been chained to the floor of an upstairs bedroom of a Louisville home.

Moises May, 36, was arrested two days after the rescue and charged with one count of kidnapping, intimidating a participant in the legal process, wanton endangerment, assault, terroristic threatening, and harassment, according to WAVE.

On August 16, the Louisville Metro Police Department was called to a home where a woman was seen screaming for help out of a second-floor window.

Neighbors had called police after the woman managed to break the window and call for help, the New York Post reported.

Police arrived and tried to gain entrance into the home but discovered that the entire first floor – doors and windows – was barricaded. Newly released bodycam footage shows police attempting to knock down doors and break windows to get inside the home, to no avail.

Police could see the woman yelling for help and got a ladder from a neighbor to reach her on the second floor.

Once inside, they find a woman crying and frantic, with a chain locked around her neck and attached to the floor.

“The woman had a chain around her neck, which was secured by a MasterLock, and that chain was bolted to the floor with screws,” the LMPD said, according to the Post. She apologizes and tells the officer that the man holding her as a prisoner had kept the key to the lock with him on his keychain. The officer then uses a hatchet to break the metal connecting the chain to the floor.

Once outside, police and firefighters begin treating the woman and remove the chain from her neck with bolt cutters.

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Two days later, police arrested May. He allegedly trapped the woman after they had an argument that turned physical, during which he held her down on the bathroom floor and chopped off most of her hair with a machete. May and the unidentified victim share a child together, according to an arrest report obtained by WAVE.

After the fight, the woman left the home, but when she returned to gather her belongings, May locked all the doors with a deadbolt and trapped her inside. May allegedly forced the woman to remove her clothes and told her: “You’re gonna get it tonight. I told you the next time you leave and don’t come home, I’d kill you.”

He then allegedly took her upstairs and chained her to the floor. Eventually, he left the home and took her cell phone, but she managed to break the window and get the attention of neighbors, according to police.

May has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency – his deep and abiding capacity to connect with others. In “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s detailed blow-by-blow of the 1988 election cycle, Ben Cramer describes Biden’s ability to “connect” as his greatest supposed skill. This has been the pitch for Biden for decades: not much in the way of brains, not a tremendously resourceful politician, awkward on his feet – but he cares. In the words of Mark Gitenstein, Biden’s 1988 speechwriter and a four-decade advisor, “His ability to communicate with people in pain is maybe his most powerful strength.”

Or maybe, just maybe, Biden was never an empathetic man. Maybe he simply trafficked in ersatz empathy, all the while feeding his own narcissism.

That story certainly looks more plausible these days.

This week, Biden visited Maui. He did so nearly two weeks after the worst wildfire in modern American history killed hundreds of Americans. Meanwhile, Biden vacationed in Delaware on the beach, telling reporters he had “no comment” on the situation; he then jet-set off to Lake Tahoe before finally heading to Lahaina. Once he reached Hawaii, he proceeded to explain that he felt the pain of those whose family members had been incinerated. After all, he said, one time he experienced a small kitchen fire. “I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” he jabbered. “Years ago, now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press’… Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the…air condition ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat.” 

In reality, back in 2004, lightning caused a kitchen fire in Biden’s home that was put out in 20 minutes with no other damage.

If this were an isolated incident, we could chalk it up to Biden’s encroaching senility. But it isn’t. After presiding over the botched pullout from Afghanistan that resulted in the return of the Taliban, the murder of 13 American servicemembers, the abandonment of hundreds of American citizens and thousands of American green card holders, and the subjugation of some tens of millions of women, Biden essentially shrugged. Then, when faced with the families of wounded and killed American soldiers, he attempted to “feel their pain” by invoking the death of his son, Beau. According to Cheryl Rex, whose son died in the Abbey Gate bombing of August 26, 2021, “His words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin.” 

Biden has cited Beau in similar instances multiple times.

In the Jewish community, the death of a loved one is followed by shiva, a seven-day period of mourning. During shiva, mourners don’t leave their homes; they are instead cared for by the community, provided with food and communal prayer. Members of the community visit the shiva house to provide comfort. 

The first rule of visiting a shiva house: don’t talk about your own experiences with death or pain. It’s gauche and irrelevant and trivializing.

Yet this is Biden’s first move.

Empathy is the quality of putting yourself in the place of others. But Biden isn’t an empath. He’s someone who believes that everyone else’s pain is merely a reflection of his own.

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