57-year-old passenger subway Ann Mary Washington unknown stabbed, shouting racist curse. With a collapsed lung, she was admitted to hospital — she needed an operation.
How to tell the family of the victim, the incident occurred on the evening of 9 November at the station Church Avenue in Brooklyn. Anne Mary was attacked when she left the train, returning home from work.
According to the woman, a white man (she is African-American, a native of Trinidad) hit her across the face and then stabbed in the chest, called a «black C*coy» then jumped on the train Q.
As told to Anne Mary Washington, her attacker, the man was small in stature (about 165 cm), at the age of about 30 years, it was gray-black pants and a black sweatshirt with a hood.
Station Church Avenue. Source: Flickr
Initially, the police did not investigate the incident as an attack of hate, in connection with which the indignant Brooklyn lawyers convened on Sunday, November 12, press conference.
«If it was a white resident, there would have circled dozens of cops,» the lawyer said Imani Henry, of Equality for Flatbush.
Human rights activists claimed that they had received from witnesses and gave police video from the scene, but it is still not published.
Later in the NYPD reported that to investigate the case will be the Task force on the crimes of hate.
