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Posted by merrick1 on Sun Dec 30 07:58:51 2012, in response to Re: Mental Institutions Needed, posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Dec 28 09:15:19 2012. Is the suspect mentally ill or is she just a bigot?Brief fair use quote. "Woman Accused of Hate-Crime Murder in Subway Push By MARC SANTORA Published: December 29, 2012 A 31-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday and charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in connection with the death of a man who was pushed onto the tracks of an elevated subway station in Queens and crushed by an oncoming train. Enlarge This Image Police personnel patrolling the 40th Street-Lowery Street station on Friday, where a man was pushed in front of a 7 train. The woman, Erika Menendez, selected her victim because she believed him to be a Muslim or a Hindu, Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, said. “The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter’s nightmare: Being suddenly and senselessly pushed into the path of an oncoming train,” Mr. Brown said in an interview. In a statement, Mr. Brown quoted Ms. Menendez, “in sum and substance,” as having told the police: “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.” Ms. Menendez conflated the Muslim and Hindu faiths in her comments to the police and in her target for attack, officials said." I suppose bigotry could be considered a form of mental illness but if it is then there are a lot of mentally ill people out there |
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