Cry for justice for subway vic
Community and elected officials rallied Monday behind a Brooklyn woman who was beaten and stabbed in what police and family members described as a racial attack on a busy subway platform.
Ann Marie Washington, 57, was recovering from surgery to repair a collapsed lung after she was stabbed in the chest and punched in the mouth Friday by a man who called her a “black b---h” as she stepped off a train at the Church Ave. station, officials said.
The suspect fled on a Q train. Police have made no arrests.
“We want justice for our mother,” said Itisha Washington, the victim’s daughter. “She’s a hardworking woman, coming home from work on a Friday evening and brutally attacked.”
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams urged police to get video footage and share it with the public.
“This must be immediately investigated as a hate crime,” Adams said. “This was a mother who was assaulted for no other reason, based on what we heard, (than) her ethnicity. That is unacceptable in this community.”