A 15-year-old boy with autism was dragged off a Manhattan train and pummeled on the platform by a crew of heartless strangers who hurled a racial slur at him, disturbing video shows. The alar…
The girl demanded that the defenseless teen “walk!” as someone can be heard yelling a racial slur.The victim tries to get back on the train, but the suspect pulls him off again.Instagram/tbo.harlemThe victim did not know his assailants, according to the NYPD, which said the Hate Crime Task Force was notified because of the anti-black slur that was used.
The mom said she hasn’t seen the harrowing footage of the attack, telling the outlet, “I refuse to watch that video. Nobody wants to see their kid being assaulted.”She knew her son — who has high-functioning autism — had left their Queens home that evening, but was shocked when she learned he had made it to Upper Manhattan and was being treated at the hospital.
“Keep a closer eye on them,” she said in a warning to other parents. “Because a lot of trouble could have been avoided had I done that.” Footage shows the female suspect in the center dragging the teen off the train and onto the platform before she and at least two others pummel him.“This video is heartbreaking and disturbing and our hearts are with the young man seemingly being senselessly victimized,” Davey said in a statement. “No one should be subject to this sort of hateful harassment while they are riding with New York City Transit, and the MTA is fully cooperating with the NYPD in its investigation into the incident.
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