NYPD Investigating Subway Station Attack On Transgender Woman As A Hate Crime (Video)

A transgender woman was pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City Monday morning. 

At around 9:00 Monday morning an unknown man caught on camera pushed a transgender woman onto the subway tracks at the Bleecker Street station in downtown Manhattan. The attacker first reached into a trash can, retrieved a bottle and threw it at the 28-year old woman.

Once on the tracks, subway riders rushed to help her, CBS News reports.

“The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is looking into a June 1 incident in which a man ‘acting erratically’ pushed a woman onto the subway tracks after throwing a plastic bottle at her, a spokeswoman said,” according to DNAinfo, which first reported the news.

The victim, who was not named, suffered cuts, scrapes, bruises, and damage to her teeth. She was treated at Bellevue Hospital then released.

New York City’s Anti-Violence Project notes that “reports of hate violence increased 26% in New York City against LGBTQ and HIV-affected people, continuing a four-year trend in increases. Additionally the report showed that in New York City, reports of hate violence from transgender and gender non-conforming people increased by 21% in 2013.”

 

Image: Screenshot via CBS New York/YouTube