Suspect arrested after pushing man onto NYC Subway Tracks
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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.
In a statement released by the district attorney’s office, 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.
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Source: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/nyregion/woman-is-held-in-death-of-man-pushed-onto-subway-tracks-in-queens.html?_r=0[/url]
Posted as an update to the original story.
hindus put down the twin towers
WHAT? :downs:
Good, let her be locked up for a long time.
What I don't get is how she made the judgment that he was Muslim from standing in a train station. Talk about stereotyping to the extreme.
That's just fucked up.
I say there has to be a new safety system, it is pretty bad when someone can just push a person on to the tracks. Put an automated railing or something, this is just horrible.
If only we had harsher punishments for people like this...we are WAY too kind to criminals in this country (they sometimes even have more rights than innocent people)
[QUOTE=kenshin6;39023269]If only we had harsher punishments for people like this...we are WAY too kind to criminals in this country (they sometimes even have more rights than innocent people)[/QUOTE]Our criminal justice system is an atrocity resulting in an appalling recidivism rate. People go in for simple crimes and come out to commit worse crimes because of the environment. Our system is all about stupid levels of punishment and mishandling and not about rehabilitation and reintroducing them to society as functioning individuals.
In other words, that is a terrible idea.
I wouldn't be surprised if she watched fox 'news'.
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;39023002]What I don't get is how she made the judgment that he was Muslim from standing in a train station. Talk about stereotyping to the extreme.[/QUOTE]
And according to the article he wasn't even a muslim. This woman has some serious issues.
[QUOTE=kenshin6;39023269]If only we had harsher punishments for people like this...we are WAY too kind to criminals in this country (they sometimes even have more rights than innocent people)[/QUOTE]
huh?
So this is what has gotten in some people since 911. Scary.
[QUOTE=Ericson666;39023340]huh?[/QUOTE]
A great example is with thieves getting themselves injured during a robbery (without actions of the home owner causing said injuries), and successfully suing the home owner.
[QUOTE=Bletotum;39023373]A great example is with thieves getting themselves injured during a robbery (without actions of the home owner causing said injuries), and successfully suing the home owner.[/QUOTE]
Do you actually have any links to said cases, or are you just going by what you heard from a chain email or unreliable forum post?
[QUOTE=Bletotum;39023373]A great example is with thieves getting themselves injured during a robbery (without actions of the home owner causing said injuries), and successfully suing the home owner.[/QUOTE]The only cases I've heard of this were out of the UK (mostly about some robber falling through a skylight then suing the home owner over it), and I'm pretty sure all of those were fake.
[QUOTE=kenshin6;39023269]If only we had harsher punishments for people like this...we are WAY too kind to criminals in this country (they sometimes even have more rights than innocent people)[/QUOTE]
She faces life in jail, what more do you want? Death? Torture?
TRUE AMERICAN HERO [IMG]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-911.gif[/IMG]
She sounds mentally unstable at best.
[QUOTE=kenshin6;39023269]If only we had harsher punishments for people like this...we are WAY too kind to criminals in this country (they sometimes even have more rights than innocent people)[/QUOTE]
We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. We have a HUGE problem with prison rape. committing a small crime can now screw you over for life. We have the NDAA. 52% of released prisoners are re-incarcerated, and 67% re-offend, all within 3 years. Further more, punishing an obviously deeply mentally ill person wont fix anything. What the actual fuck are you talking about?
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[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate[/url]
[QUOTE=kenshin6;39023269]If only we had harsher punishments for people like this...we are WAY too kind to criminals in this country (they sometimes even have more rights than innocent people)[/QUOTE]
Either you have no idea what American prisons are like or you are suggesting we just start straight up torturing our criminals.
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;39023595]We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. We have a HUGE problem with prison rape. committing a small crime can now screw you over for life. We have the NDAA. 52% of released prisoners are re-incarcerated, and 67% re-offend, all within 3 years. Further more, punishing an obviously deeply mentally ill person wont fix anything. What the actual fuck are you talking about?
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[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate[/url][/QUOTE]
Exactly - there are crimes in places of the world with terrible prisoner conditions. Clearly this person does not care or does not understand the consequences of her actions. Prison, as 67% of prisoners show, will do little to change her mind.
Psychopathic and mentally deranged.
Wow. That's like saying the Communists and Fascists worked together start WWII. Hinduism and Islam have been at each other's horns for hundreds of years.
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