New York police continue to search for three men suspected of beating the Queen woman, screaming anti-LGBTQ slurping.
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The New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating an attack on a 28-year-old woman in Village Lane north of Mott Street on June 24th. QNS. A Queens-based news outlet reported that the suspect had fled the scene, and the woman was repeatedly punched after suffocating the patient.
Police received a 911 call after the attack and found the victim who was taken by EMS to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital. The woman remains stable, QNS Reported on Thursday.
Selvena Brooks-Powers, a member of the New York City Council, QNS Condemn the attack.
“I am terrified and heartbroken by the brutal and hateful attacks,” Brooks Powers said. “No one should face violence or dehumanization because of who they are. The reported use of anti-LGBTQ slur in attacks is disgusting and unacceptable.”
The attack that took place in the far Rockaway area came days after the June 22nd attack in midtown Manhattan. After the assault, the NYPD released photos and video of the suspect accused of beating the 22-year-old man outside a garage on West 34th Street near 8th Avenue around 3am. new york Daily News.
“These cases are part of a surprising trend,” said Jennifer Rajkumar, a member of the New York council. QNS. “The Honor and Lesbian Alliance announced this month have discovered that there have been 932 anti-LGBTQ hate crimes over the past 12 months. What’s even more troublesome is half of them being directed to transgender people, an increase of 14%. We call on perpetrators in both cases to prosecute the greatest extent of the law.”
Source: Advocate.com – www.advocate.com
