According to authorities, two black adolescent females were detained and charged with hate crimes after assaulting a woman on a Queens MTA bus.
After hitting a 57-year-old woman in the head on July 9 after she claimed she was a huge supporter of former President Donald Trump, the anonymous suspects, aged 15 and 16, were taken into custody on Tuesday morning. Although a third person was engaged in the event, it is unknown if any other arrests will be made shortly.
Earlier this month, at approximately 7 o’clock in the evening, the three teens approached the female passenger and smacked her on the head while yelling “anti-white comments” in Woodhaven, a neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City.
The NYPD released a video of the three suspects strolling down a street in broad daylight prior to their arrests. One of the suspects had pale pink hair, while the other two had green hair.
The females were holding a variety of objects and were dressed in shorts, crop tops, and shoes.
Jill LeCroix, 57, was named as the victim by the New York Post.
The girl with the green hair remarked, “Before they attacked me, “I bet you support Trump! You do not? “‘ Telling The Post, LeCroix. “I love him,” I said. I couldn’t tell which of them struck me initially.
‘The one with the green hair, she was saying she hates white people, the way they talk, hates white skin, the way their skin breaks,’ continued LeCroix’s daughter. she was a gangster, etc.
LeCroix remembered being the sole person of color on the bus.
‘By the time we started passing St. John’s Cemetery on Woodhaven, she started in on me, saying, “That’s where I’m going to bury you!”‘
‘She had a bag from Bath and Body Works, and she took out a scrub and said she was going to beat me with it,’ LeCroix said. ‘It was a tangerine. She said, “You’re going to get what you deserve! All white people are going to get what they deserve.”‘
The 57-year-skull old’s wound required three staples to be closed.
According to data from the NYPD, there were 2,310 more felony assault occurrences registered in New York City in 2022 than there were in 2021.
Statistics for the first half of the year reveal that 14,461 felony assaults have been registered, compared to 12,151 at this point last year.
With 18,618 more occurrences reported so far this year than last, crime in the state as a whole has increased by 36.9 percent across all categories, including murder, rape, and robbery.
The most common crime in the city is grand theft, with felony assault coming in second.
This year, the city has seen a number of reports of hate crimes.
A New York man was charged with a hate crime earlier this month after it was claimed that he hurled racial epithets at two Asian American ladies and showered them in liquid in a subway station.
On May 8, 40-year-old Derrick Johnson approached two women in the Rockefeller Center subway station in Manhattan, sprayed one of them in an unidentified liquid, shoved the other to the ground, and spit on her.
He allegedly said at the woman after shoving her, “You f**king Chinese.” I don’t know why you’re in America, according to law enforcement sources, the New York Post said.
The lady, 26, suffered “severe bruising” and “considerable discomfort and swelling” in her head and jaw, according to a statement released on July 13 by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, 48. It’s unknown if the other woman was hurt physically.
He was charged with aggravated harassment and assault on July 13 and was also given the go-ahead to have a mental health assessment. According to publicly available data for inmates in NYC, he will continue to be held at Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward in Manhattan on a $15,000 bail or a $30,000 bond.
Madeline Barker was also legally charged with assault on July 13 after she was shown in a viral video pepper spraying four Asian ladies in a racially motivated incident in Manhattan last month.
The Meatpacking District event, which took place in a public square and left one victim “unable to open her eyes,” occurred amid a wave of anti-Asian violence in the area.
The women were screamed at by Barker, who used racist slurs and told them to “get back” to their own country.
According to the New York District Attorney’s office, she was charged earlier this month with four charges of aggravated harassment in the second degree and eight counts of third-degree assault as hate crimes.
