I wanted to write about, but didn't, because it's too ghastly.
It's one thing to die. We all kind we're going to die.
But the woman he threw in front of the train had both of her lower legs severed from her body by the subway's grinding steel wheels.
She lived, but now with her legs severed below the knee.
You will not be surprised to hear that he had frequent encounters with New York City's courts in the past, but was released every time.
A 35-year-old man arrested on suspicion of pushing his girlfriend onto the New York City subway tracks causing both her feet to be severed by an incoming train, had been imprisoned for attacking a woman and threatening to hurl her child off a fire escape during a 2017 home invasion, according to police.
Christian Valdez was arrested following the Saturday morning domestic violence attack at the Fulton Street subway station in lower Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department.
Valdez, who listed his address as a women's homeless shelter in Brooklyn, was captured about 9:30 p.m. ET in lower Manhattan, about 11 hours after the subway station attack, according to a police incident report.
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"Further investigation determined that the female was pushed onto the tracks by a 35-year-old male after they were engaged in a domestic dispute," according to the NYPD incident report.
The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, according to police.
NYPD officers called to the station found the victim conscious and responsive with injuries to her legs after being struck by the train, police said. Both of her feet had been amputated, police sources said.
That nightmare is not the incident I'm referring to in the headline.
Because another dreg pitched another citizen into the path of an oncoming train just this week.
The unhinged man accused of randomly shoving a straphanger to his death in front of an East Harlem train has a troubled past, including a history of mental illness and a lengthy rap sheet, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Oh, he was known to authorities, you say?
Carlton McPherson, 24, of the Bronx, had a warrant out for his arrest in an open Brooklyn assault case at the time of Monday's chilling attack at the East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station -- when cops say he pushed a 54-year-old man onto the tracks.
A northbound 4 train rolling into the station around 7 p.m. was unable to stop in time and fatally struck the man, whose name had not been released pending family notification.
McPherson's most recent arrest before that was in January after he was accused of spitting on a woman on an L train, though that case was sealed, meaning the charges may have been dropped, according to the sources.
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"I avoid him," [a neighbor said]. "I want to say I'm surprised -- but I'm not surprised. I don't catch the train. I'm scared for just this reason."
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McPherson has a history of "emotionally disturbed person" incidents, the sources said. William Miller
His rap sheet also includes arrests for shoplifting and burglary, including on Sept. 30, when he was allegedly busted rifling through items in an office at the Aqueduct Racetrack, sources said.
John Sexton notes it's been a hell of a week for crime in New York City. Not only was there the nth victim pushed onto the tracks of a subway, but a black man is going around and punching women in the faces or in the back of their skulls without provocation.
Sexton has a lot of clips from women describing these attacks. One has a black eye, another one has a very visible abrasion running under one eye.
Over on the Lost Coast, some people are getting into trouble for occupying the city's streets.
No, not the homeless.
The homeless are, of course, protected and have every right to set up a literal camp on the sidewalk in front of your restaurant, store, or home.
No, the problem is that law-abiding, tax-paying citizens have put large planters on the sidewalk in order to occupy the sidewalks so that the homeless can't occupy them.
I mean, the city can't allow tax-paying, rent-paying citizens to use the sidewalks as their own space. The homeless must be encouraged to continue doing so.
The planters were adopted not just by this one neighborhood but by people throughout the city....
So people were doing this as a way to deal with a problem the city clearly could not deal with. And the city was not openly encouraging this but also wasn't preventing it because the city also knows that it can't offer any other help to these residents and business owners who are tired of the filth and chaos.
But here we are a few months later and a tiny group of activists is forcing the city to punish those same residents and business owners for trying to defend themselves. Even worse, they are claiming the planters are limiting access to the sidewalks knowing full well that the moment the planters are removed, the tent camps will be back. In other words, they don't care a bit about sidewalk access or about the people who live in these neighborhoods, they only care about making it easier for the homeless to spread out wherever they want.