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[hexola]

I think that's a Gomer Pyle thing...

Brooklyn Woman Arrested After Videos Of Racist Attack On Train Emerge

New York Police Department officers arrested a 40-year-old woman Thursday after videos emerged of her kicking and hitting a woman with an umbrella while calling her by an anti-Asian slur during a morning ride on the D train in Brooklyn.

Police said Anna Lushchinskaya was charged with felony assault after the racist and violent attack Tuesday morning, according to police.

In another video, shared by Twitter user @BlipintheCosmos, Ayala can be seen confronting Lushchinkskaya up close with his camera phone. She calls him a “Muslim,” and he replies, “I’m Dominican.”

As Ayala continues filming Lushchinkskaya, she pulls off his earphones and smacks his phone to the floor. Ayala then pulls the woman down to the floor and detains her.

Ayala later tweeted a photo of police arresting Lushchinkskaya.

“She tried me so I had to detain her until the cops showed up,” he wrote.

[Dorian Gray]

1. Good for him

That woman has some mental issues and anger going on. To be that provocative on a train.... in front of a bunch of people... is not normal.

I hope the cops charge her. If she needs mental health help, she gets it. And she learns that being a racist POS (not related to mental health issues) won't help her in this world, this city, or this life.

[malaise]

2. Just saw video on CNN

Lock her up

[PunkinPi]

3. Here's a video (language warning)the guy that detained her took, something seriously wrong with her.

Link to tweet

(photos of him detaining her 2 posts down, couldn't get to embedded properly).

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Good thing I wasnt there. Makes me so angry. I would have thrown her to the ground to stop it.

She was using a weapon (furled umbrella).

She struck the first blow and then claimed she was only defending herself when she attacked again and again.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Her Preparations Were VERY Deliberate

Took off the gloves, pulled her hair back, took her time getting the umbrella, and then just started hitting.

Then she tells the other guy to not touch her? Really?

[Eric J in MN]

5. What was that anti-Asian slur she said? NT

NT

[Solomon]

6. There's other videos of the incident and you can hear her call either the guy who was

trying to stop her or the woman she was attacking a "chink".

[Eric J in MN]

7. Thanks. NT

NT

[zanana1]

8. Another good reason for gun control. nt

[Denzil_DC]

9. Here's the run-up to the arrest:

Link to tweet

Includes some spitting, a few more "fuck offs"s, an attempted Muslim slur, phone swiping, then a swift takedown.

[hexola]

12. I don't know - he seems to be provoking her a bit

I was wondering about this part...but I guess the whole thing that preceded this part sets the stage.

[Denzil_DC]

15. Well, provoking, or standing up to her.

He is a lot bigger than she is. She picked the wrong fight. She'd been lashing out for a while without anyone retaliating. Flipping his phone out of his hand was apparently the last straw.

[Equinox Moon]

10. Confident man to know he could do this.

Good for him.

[Denzil_DC]

13. And here's a fuller version of the whole incident:

Link to tweet

Others on that Twitter thread say the same woman was charged for pepper spraying someone on the train last June.

Sounds like she has serious issues and should avoid mass transit, or people in general.

[hexola]

14. A lot of these people must ride the train together all the time?

Might be some ongoing problem here - I doubt she was stranger to the people on that train.

[Denzil_DC]

16. She allegedly has history.

Word is she was charged for pepper spraying someone last June.

I'd rather my morning commute wasn't shared with her, that's for sure. Maybe she'll be banned from the train after this, whatever other consequences she faces? Maybe she'll get help. Looks like she needs it.

I'll save my sympathy for the woman she kicked repeatedly, belted with her umbrella, and insulted, and who didn't retaliate. There was no provocation visible in the earlier part of the videos.

[dalton99a]

22. Anna Lushchinskaya Has A History Of Alleged Subway Assaults

http://gothamist.com/2018/12/14/serial_subway_sally.php

The Brooklyn woman who was arrested on Tuesday morning for hitting, spitting, and using racial slurs against her fellow passengers on a D train to Manhattan was arrested in June for assaulting passengers in a Sunset Park train station, and allegedly punched another subway rider on Monday of this week.

According to an NYPD spokesperson, 40-year-old Anna Lushchinskaya was arrested on June 28th in the 36th Street D/N/R subway station in Sunset Park after allegedly spraying a substance into two people's faces: "As the D train arrives in the station [Lushchinskaya] walks by the victim and discharged the substance in the victims' faces, causing burning and irritation." Lushchinskaya was charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault.

Another alleged victim, who asked not to be named out of fear of being attacked again, said she had exited the R train at the 4th Avenue/9th Street station this past Monday morning, and was transferring to the F when she walked by a woman she now says was 40-year-old Anna Lushchinskaya.

"As I was passing her she stuck her arm out and like, side punched me with her keys in her knuckles," the passenger said. "I stumbled, caught myself, kept walking and turned around because she was screaming at me to leave her alone. She called me a 'psycho bitch,' and I still had my headphones on so I couldn’t completely catch what she said because I was so taken off guard."

The rider admits that she "got in her face a little," and took the photo above, when "a man and woman kind of grabbed me and they were like, leave her she’s not worth it."

When she got out of the train station at Carroll Street, the passenger said she told transit police "through tears" what had happened. "They told me because I didn’t know who she was they couldn’t do anything and if I were to file a complaint it was be harassment not assault," she said, adding that she emailed the transit police on Wednesday night but has not yet received a response.

After Wednesday's incident, in which Lushchinskaya is seen on video hitting a woman with her umbrella and keys, and calling her a "fucking c*ink," she was was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, attempted assault, and harassment, all misdemeanors, according to a criminal complaint from the Brooklyn DA's office.

Susan Morris, Lushchinskaya's Legal Aid attorney, declined to comment.

Lushchinskaya's next court date is set for January 22.

[Denzil_DC]

23. Yeah.

The woman assaulted repeatedly in the OP story, Michelle Tung, sounds like she didn't want the media attention, so she might not have reported the incident.

If Lushchinskaya had left the train and gone on her way, even if Tung had reported it to transit police, the result might have been the same as in one of the incidents in your quote above: "They told me because I didn’t know who she was they couldn’t do anything and if I were to file a complaint it was be harassment not assault".

I suspect - with no evidence, obviously - there have been other unreported incidents involving Lushchinskaya. I've no idea why she hadn't been banned from riding the train earlier. That may stop now.

[lunasun]

21. Why do you think that ?

[Denzil_DC]

17. More background here:

Many called Platano Man a hero but Michelle Tung doesn’t quite see eye to eye with what Platano did. She first described herself as “very lucky” and “grateful” to have commuters help her out, reports “Daily News.”

“I’m lucky that she didn’t have anything like weapons on her — like knife, gun — because it could have got a lot worse,” she told ABC 7 NY. “I’m lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn’t recording. He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didn’t do anything until later on when it escalated.”

...

Still, she fears the attention from the incident and that’s why she chooses not to show her face. Furthermore, she told the Daily Mail she believes Juan Ayala posted the video for the “wrong reasons.”

...

The police thanked Juan Ayala but Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams criticized the “jokester”. “This bystander intervention began with good intentions but ended dangerously. Escalation is not a good idea,” he said.

https://hopclear.com/the-woman-who-went-berserk-on-a-new-york-train-has-been-identified-as-anna-lushchinskaya/

On the other hand, if Ayala hadn't intervened, it looks like Lushchinskaya might have just exited the train, and maybe done something similar again. This woman didn't need much escalating.

She's an attorney - for now, anyway.

[hexola]

18. Yeah - he called her a bitch and made an anti-muslim remark

That guy was not helping - "Whats that some Muslim shit - I ate a bacon and egg sandwich today!"

[Denzil_DC]

19. Huh? He didn't make an anti-Muslim remark. She called him "Muhammed Atta".

He's not Muslim, and if you read elsewhere, he went through 9/11 in his youth, so that's some pretty provocative shit right there, on top of the earlier racial slurs.

If Ayala hadn't intervened, it doesn't sound like Tung would have made a complaint about an incident where she ended up with lacerations to her hand, and was lucky not to have suffered worse since Lushchinskaya was swinging a heavy bunch of keys at one point. That umbrella alone was capable of doing some serious harm, not to mention the vicious repeated kicking.

So, given Lushchinskaya has previous, a similar incident would probably have happened on another day, and maybe turned out worse for all concerned. For all we know, there may be other incidents involving her that never got reported.

There's difference between "not escalating" and letting stuff pass. If I was traveling that route regularly, I'd be glad he did intervene.

The counter-argument Eric Adams put forward might be that she could have been carrying a gun. It looks like that may not be an option for her in future.

[lunasun]

20. IMO. It was a heroic thing . More people like this are needed to standup and should be applauded

https://www.theroot.com/in-last-minute-bid-for-most-basura-becky-of-2018-white-1831084103

[They_Live]

24. Another possible chief of staff pick

for tRump.