NYC Subway Push Labelled Hate Crime
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: December 31, 2012
A New York woman has been charged with second degree murder as a hate crime for
allegedly pushing a man in front of a subway train.
Police say the surveillance video they released helped find Erika Menendez.
The Queens District Attorney says Menendez implicated herself in Thursday's crime.
He says she told officers she quote: "pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers."
Witnesses to the death say they saw a woman pacing the elevated platform and muttering to herself just before she pushed her victim.
This was the second time this month someone was shoved to their death in front of an approaching train.
Police say the surveillance video they released helped find Erika Menendez.
The Queens District Attorney says Menendez implicated herself in Thursday's crime.
He says she told officers she quote: "pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers."
Witnesses to the death say they saw a woman pacing the elevated platform and muttering to herself just before she pushed her victim.
This was the second time this month someone was shoved to their death in front of an approaching train.
