Two teenage girls have been arrested in last week’s “anti-white” attack on a Queens woman riding a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus, both being charged with hate crimes.
“The suspects, 15 and 16, are facing assault and aggravated harassment raps over the ugly July 9 attack that left the 57-year-old victim, Jill LeCroix, bloodied enough she required three staples to her head,” the New York Post reported. “Both charges were classified as hate crimes, the NYPD said. A third suspect is still being sought.”
Three black women were identified as the suspects in the racially motivated attack on the middle-aged woman on board the bus on Saturday after the trio reportedly got into an argument with the older passenger.
After becoming violent and seriously injuring the woman, a grandmother of five, by hitting her in the head with an unknown object, police investigators said they yelled “I hate white people. I hate the way they talk.”
NYPD posted pictures of the suspects obtained from surveillance cameras online, seeking information on the vicious attack and urging citizens to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline or submit tips through its website.
“All calls are strictly confidential,” the NYPD noted.
Speaking to the Post, LeCroix said the attack came after she admitted to being a Donald Trump supporter.
“Before they hit me, the girl with the green hair said, ‘You probably like Trump! Don’t you?’” LeCroix recalled. “I said, ‘I love him.’ I didn’t see which one hit me first.”
“The one with the green hair, she was saying she hates white people, the way they talk, hates white skin, the way their skin cracks. Saying she was gangsta,” she added.
On a more ominous note, LeCroix said, “I was the only white person on the bus. By the time we started passing St. John’s Cemetery on Woodhaven, she started in on me, saying, ‘That’s where I’m going to bury you!'”
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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