New York will deploy the National Guard in the subway after a series of shootings. Travelers may be subjected to random searches of bags and backpacks, a measure a leading civil rights group warns against.

‘Anyone who wants to do harm or sow fear in our metro will be arrested,’ declared the state governor. “Plain and simple, there will be consequences. This has to end. New Yorkers deserve no less,” said Kathy Hochul, the governor.