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Brooklyn Woman Arrested After Videos Of Racist Attack On Train Emerge
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, Im 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
(13,499 posts)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
(269,157 posts)Lock her up
PunkinPi
(4,878 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)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
(65,168 posts)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
(35,619 posts)NT
Solomon
(12,319 posts)trying to stop her or the woman she was attacking a "chink".
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT
zanana1
(6,129 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)Link to tweet
Includes some spitting, a few more "fuck offs"s, an attempted Muslim slur, phone swiping, then a swift takedown.
hexola
(4,835 posts)I was wondering about this part...but I guess the whole thing that preceded this part sets the stage.
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)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
(6,344 posts)Good for him.
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)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
(4,835 posts)Might be some ongoing problem here - I doubt she was stranger to the people on that train.
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)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
(81,570 posts)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 couldnt 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 shes 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 didnt know who she was they couldnt 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
(7,257 posts)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 didnt know who she was they couldnt 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
(21,646 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)Im lucky that she didnt have anything like weapons on her like knife, gun because it could have got a lot worse, she told ABC 7 NY. Im 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 wasnt recording. He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didnt do anything until later on when it escalated.
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Still, she fears the attention from the incident and thats 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.
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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
(4,835 posts)That guy was not helping - "Whats that some Muslim shit - I ate a bacon and egg sandwich today!"
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)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
(21,646 posts)They_Live
(3,240 posts)for tRump.