Transgender Woman Turns Self Into Police After Allegedly Attacking Harrasers

[cathyrains]

Subway slasher caught blowing kisses on camera while vowing to 'cut' victims; arrested after Brooklyn A train attack

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/subway-slasher-arrested-brooklyn-train-attack-article-1.2480564

BY NICOLE HENSLEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, December 30, 2015, 5:44 AM

A flamboyant fashionista captured posing on camera while threatening to slash fellow straphangers on an A train in Brooklyn was arrested Tuesday.


Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=qPMUN2P73Cc

[Wynternight]

Opening this topic to comments as it does speak to issues of interest to the community. Keep conversation clean and civil. I changed the subject line of the OP as it was rather sensationalist.

[Deborah]

The article is pretty vague on what she was reacting to.  Regardless, if it was just words she cannot, under the law, react as she did with physical assault.


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[stephaniec]

I live near Chicago and I dread any time I take the train. I got kicked in the back of the head minding my own business riding the "L" going to work a bunch of years ago. I remember as a teen some guy tried to push someone out the train door while it was speeding along.

[itsApril]

Thank you for reopening this thread.  I think it's important that we keep track of negative stories as well as positive ones.  To the general public, we are likely to be judged by sensational coverage in rags like the Daily News, which is kind of like the Jerry Springer Show of the print media.  ("Subway slasher," my ass!  Nobody got slashed!)  Millions of people see stories like this, and to many of them, it may be all they know about trans people.

Here's a follow-up story (also Daily News) that gives a little bit of further information:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/subway-slasher-provoked-gay-slurs-friend-article-1.2481226

As you might guess, there was a whole history that came before the video.  A friend of the person arrested indicates that one of the persons she threatened had spit on her and called her a "->-bleeped-<-got," touching off the altercation.  This doesn't excuse her.  But it helps us to understand what we're seeing on the video.