She Said She Hated White People. Then She Attacked With Pepper Spray.

[left-of-center2012]

As a man shopped with his wife in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx on Friday, a woman stepped up to them and said she hated white people. Then she attacked, kicking the man and spraying him with pepper spray, the police said. The next day, the same person, who is black, approached a man and a woman in the same neighborhood, asked the woman if she was white and then immediately sprayed her in the eyes.

On Saturday, police arrested Thomas Heard, a 37-year-old from the Bronx who identifies as a transgender woman, and charged her with multiple hate-crime felonies and misdemeanors in connection with the two attacks. Police were also questioning Ms. Heard, who also goes by the name Tasha, about seven similar pepper spray attacks in Manhattan on Friday, which were committed by a woman matching her description.

Ms. Heard has been arrested more than 60 times since 2002 on charges including prostitution, sexual misconduct and disorderly conduct, police said.

On Monday, Ms. Heard’s neighbors in Belmont said they often hear yelling and fighting from inside her apartment, but they believe she lives alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/nyregion/transgender-pepper-spray-attack.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[Archae]

2. Two words...

He's nuts.

[RockRaven]

3. "He's nuts"

So you're gonna misgender a trans woman because she is mentally ill?.... Interesting choice.

[RockRaven]

5. Beyond "Thomas" where did the article name her as "a guy"? Note the bold in the blurb:

"As a man shopped with his wife in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx on Friday, a woman stepped up to them and said she hated white people. Then she attacked, kicking the man and spraying him with pepper spray, the police said. The next day, the same person, who is black, approached a man and a woman in the same neighborhood, asked the woman if she was white and then immediately sprayed her in the eyes.

On Saturday, police arrested Thomas Heard, a 37-year-old from the Bronx who identifies as a transgender woman, and charged her with multiple hate-crime felonies and misdemeanors in connection with the two attacks. Police were also questioning Ms. Heard, who also goes by the name Tasha, about seven similar pepper spray attacks in Manhattan on Friday, which were committed by a woman matching her description.

Ms. Heard has been arrested more than 60 times since 2002 on charges including prostitution, sexual misconduct and disorderly conduct, police said.

On Monday, Ms. Heard’s neighbors in Belmont said they often hear yelling and fighting from inside her apartment, but they believe she lives alone.

[greyl]

6. "She" is in the title three times. nt

[jcmaine72]

7. One gets the sense here that the actual story is secondary to

some other point you'd like to make regarding this particular crime.