A viral video of a white woman named Anna Lushchinskaya hurling racist insults and attempting to kick and slap an Asian passenger on a NYC subway had a happy ending. According to ABC7 in New York, Lushchinskaya, 40, was arrested at the 36th Street station and charged with felony assault.
The video of her antics, shared by Twitter user @PlatanoMan, showed her becoming irate after another passenger bumped into her on a northbound D train (note, it’s almost impossible not to bump into someone on the subway).
The enraged woman begins to pull back her hair and tries multiple times to slap and kick the 24-year-old woman. While other Asian passengers restrain her and tell her to stop, she attempts to hit and prod the woman with her umbrella. Later on, she calls the woman and the man who restrained her a racial slur and tries to spit on the woman.
“Everybody was just looking at each other like, ‘Are you sure you just heard that? Did you just hear that?'”said Juan Ayala, one of the helpers, to Eyewitness News.
The woman who was targeted in the attack, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she’s thankful Lushchinskaya wasn’t carrying any weapons.
“I’m lucky that she didn’t have anything like weapons on her — like knife, gun — because it could have got a lot worse,” she said. “I’m lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn’t recording. He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didn’t do anything until later on when it escalated.”
This isn’t Lushchinskaya’s first brush with the law on the D train; she allegedly pepper-sprayed a man during the summer.
So this happened yesterday #mta #36st #nyc pic.twitter.com/h3AqY6IP1n
— PL∆T∆NO M∆N™ (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018
— PL∆T∆NO M∆N™ (@PlatanoMan) December 12, 2018
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