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Updated at 3:51 p.m. ET: NEW YORK -- A 30-year-old former deli worker has been arrested on second-degree murder charges for allegedly pushing a New York subway rider off the platform and into the path of an oncoming train at 49th Street after an argument.
Law enforcement sources say Naeem Davis has made statements to detectives implicating himself in the deadly push. Information about an attorney was not immediately available.
A law enforcement official told NBC 4 New York the man is suspected of pushing 58-year-old Ki-Suk Han off the platform at the N, Q, R station Monday afternoon. Han was hit by a southbound Q train and died.
Han's family spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday. Daughter Ashley Han, 20, said: "I just really wish I had one last chance to tell my dad how much I love him."
A bystander recorded part of the fight between the two men and turned the video over to police. The man who allegedly pushed Han is heard cursing and saying, in substance, "Leave me alone... stand in line, wait for the R train and that's it."
He then pushed Han onto the tracks, police said. Han tried to climb back up onto the platform but died after getting trapped between the train and the platform's edge.
Asked Wednesday if she wished someone would have helped pull her father off the tracks, Han's daughter said it was difficult to dwell on the past.
"Yeah, the thought of someone helping him up in a matter of seconds would have been great... what happened has happened," she said.
The Q train operator, Terrence Legree, told the New York Daily News he saw the man on the tracks and tried to pull the emergency brakes on the train, but couldn't stop it in time. Even after he heard the sound of the train hitting the man and the locomotive screeched to a halt, Legree said he jumped out of the control booth and tried to help the victim.
"If someone can be saved, you have to do what you have to do," Legree, a 21-year employee with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, told the News. But Han couldn't be saved -- a tragic fact that had Legree struggling with an range of emotions and questions more than a day after the man's death.
“All kinds of emotions from ‘Why is this happening?’ to ‘Why was that guy down there?’ to ‘What happened?’” Legree told the News. He was treated for shock after the incident.
Related: 'No way' to save subway victim, photographer says
Police had released several photos and video clips of the suspect wanted for allegedly pushing Han into the path of Legree's train. A law enforcement official tells NBC 4 New York that co-workers from a nearby deli where the suspect works tipped off police that their colleague might be the subway pusher after they recognized his voice from video.
Investigators then saw the man on surveillance video in the street talking to street vendors outside the subway station, and when they went back to the area Tuesday, he was there, speaking with the same vendors, sources said.
Subway pushes are unusual. Among the more high-profile was the January 1999 death of Kendra Webdale. A former mental patient admitted he shoved her to her death.
Related: Remembering Kendra Webdale and so many others
Following that, the state Legislature passed Kendra's Law, which lets mental health authorities supervise patients who live outside institutions to make sure they are taking their medications and aren't a threat to safety.
Jonathan Dienst is WNBC’s chief investigative correspondent. Shimon Prokupecz is a WNBC investigative producer.
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Got him!
Now he will get his 3 months in jail!
Naw, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be along any minute to save this brother with a spin job.
Send him to Gitmo, o that's right it was suppose to be closed by now....My bad
More Black on Asian violence. This guy would fit right in in Oakland.
That's like a new sport there.
Pushed him? I heard he threw him off the platform, he grabbed his hood and threw him off the platform.
Insane plea..90 days on community service and three years probation!
The NY Post should be sued by this Han's family..I would do it, can't hurt.
Actually if he is found to be mentally ill he will have a much harder time getting back out in public than if he is found criminally responsible.
well im gonna catch flack for this but i disagree with yall at this tme-need more info.in the video he clearly tells the man to go somewhere else and get away from him,now id like to see more video to see 1)how hard he pushed him,ie did he shove him backwards a little and Han lost his balance or did he intentionally push him hard enough to fall off2)what did Han do after he was told to leave him be,did he get closer in his face or walk away?3)did he kn train was right there?
P.O.$.
If convicted, I can think of a fitting punishment. And let a relative of Han, drive the train.
I agree with IXLR8..... Freakin Al Sharpton will come to his rescue. Anything to get his face in fron t of the camera. I think the guy that pushed the victim should face this as a hate crime. After all, it was an African American that killed an unarmed Asian man.
THis kid has killed before, or at least maimed people before. He doesn't have a conscience once he gets mad and he doesn't care what happens to the people who make him mad.
This guy should go away FOR LIFE! He has no feelings for anyone other than himself. He's a danger to society and should be locked away for life. Just imagine how he treats people when NOBODY IS AROUND!
It's a good thing the state of NY has a ban on the sale of handguns or, no doubt, the guy would have been shot rather than pushed.
Now if they can ban subway trains, too, there will be even MORE lives saved.
Because we all know that it's guns and trains that kill people, not people that kill people.
My how easy we gloss over the request to 'LEAVE ME ALONE' to the breaking point, then to make this shiggety worse we all just ignore the fact that most asses feel they can say anything to anyone and its a-okay. well its not, grow up leave people to their personal space and stop thinking the world revolves around you. Total bull-shigetty.
Not a Socialist-1286940, Without a ban the Asian guy probably would have shot him. With gun bans usually it's the criminals who have the guns, look at Chicago, multiple shootings every week end. Every sane person should be issued guns to defend themselves.
If this man has no qualms about pushing a man off a subway platform in plain sight, just imagine what he must be doing to all those customers Ruebens and foot longs in the back prep area.
Gag me.
OK, this one is easy. March him down to the subway station, and ....oh, look, here come's the train!......
God damn the pusher man.
First off, as a New Yorker who had lost a friend to an accident on the train, you have to react fast to this kind of situation. And, IMHO I find that people will freeze up in the face of danger. NOT all people, but alot of them. This was a total tragedy for this man, as well as the motorman, who will not forget this incident for the rest of his life. But secondly, the accused man has got to have some kind of problem, but I don't think Sharpton or any of these usual folks would have anything to do with this guy. He needs some help for sure, but he also deserves whatever punishment can be brought down on him. This whole act was just senseless. Just Sayin
R Battle
That was too funny!!!!! :D
It's amazing how many of you are so quick to judgment with zero information as to what Han might have been doing to provoke Davis into pushing him. What I see is a bunch of bloodthirsty know nothings.
Your analogy is palpably at fault. You made my 7th grader laugh hard. Don't think that you are capable of creating decent analogies. Let me level with you and make things very easy.
1) Are you blaming the operator of the train for this tragedy? For your analogy to remain true, yes, you are accusing the operator of the train of this tragedy.
2) If you still do not understand my point (If you have come up with this analogy, I should assume that you still do not see flaws in your analogy and wonder what I am talking about)
3) Hopefully not, but if you still have not gotten my point,
Your analogy is palpably at fault. You made my 7th grader laugh hard. Don't think that you are capable of creating decent analogies. Let me level with you and make things very easy.
1) Are you blaming the operator of the train for this tragedy? For your analogy to remain true, yes, you are accusing the operator of the train of this tragedy.
2) If you still do not understand my point (If you have come up with this analogy, I should assume that you still do not see flaws in your analogy and wonder what I am talking about)
3) Hopefully not, but if you still have not gotten my point,
It's society today. Your just like the rest, you say let him walk, he's innocent, i can see it in the way you wrote your statement. That's the trouble with society today, nobody is guilty of anything. Oh yea, i'm sorry, it's George Bushes fault!! That comes from the White House itself.
R Battle:
You are dating yourself son
Your analogy is palpably at fault. You made my 7th grader laugh hard. Don't think that you are capable of creating decent analogies. Let me level with you and make things very easy.
1) Are you blaming the operator of the train for this tragedy? For your analogy to remain true, yes, you are accusing the operator of the train of this tragedy.
2) If you still do not understand my point (If you have come up with this analogy, I should assume that you still do not see flaws in your analogy and wonder what I am talking about)
3) Hopefully not, but if you still have not gotten my point,
not a s, im dating both of us.hey jacf ; )
Your analogy is palpably at fault. You made my 7th grader laugh hard. Don't think that you are capable of creating decent analogies. Let me level with you and make things very easy.
1) Are you blaming the operator of the train for this tragedy? For your analogy to remain true, yes, you are accusing the operator of the train of this tragedy.
2) If you still do not understand my point (If you have come up with this analogy, I should assume that you still do not see flaws in your analogy and wonder what I am talking about)
3) Hopefully not, but if you still have not gotten my point,
This guy was a deli worker? With that beard I hope he wasn't making my sandwich.
Let's ban the subway now.
What the hell do you people know about either one of these guys that gives you the right to pass judgment on them or on why this happened ? None of you have any idea what the whole story is. Man i would love to push most of you in front of a train. So sick of idiots ....
R Battle,
Yep, and as I reached a milestone birthday yesterday when asked by my son "so mom how do you feel being soooo old?
I replyed "Shorter of breath and one day closer to death". At least he got it! ;)
Hope yer having a good evening!!
@Culheath...maybe Han got into his face, invaded his space (we'll never know) BUT that's no reason for Davis to shove him to his death! A backhand slap or an ass whoopin' probably (and the guy walks away with his tail tucked between his legs) but at least he's still alive. But to kill him, I think not!
Hang the hood rat welfare bum in the middle of Times Square to set an example. We as a nation need to start hanging these thugs in public and make it required viewing to all school kids so they know what happens when they do these malicious things. Also,beat the holy hell out of everyone that was there but walked away or just stood and watched like the spectators at an ancient roman death game aka sport.
IXLR8 "Naw, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be along any minute to save this brother with a spin job."
I would think they would be more likely to go after the photographer, he has already stated how close he was, no zoom there. But of course he decided to "warn" a train operator who already KNEW he was about to run over someone and could not stop. His story is that he flashed his SLR camera at the train, as he took a photo with each flash, and in perfect focus! Not buying it. He should be charged with something! Hmmm...save mans life or get the best pic of a life?...take pic! <puke>
the photographer should have helped Mr Han ! and someone should have tossed that hood thug onto the tracks instead
Nope, he has a master plan to outsmart the judges. He will grow a beard.
You see, people these clowns are dumb. They actually possess more intelligence and power than most judges.
Hey I might agree with you if we knew whether he simply pushed Han with no intent to make him fall onto the tracks or not. All I'm saying is we don't know and to jump to all sorts of violent ideas of how Davis should be punished is hysteria at best.
Mark my words, he will grow a beard and the judges look at each other like the character in the movie "Aliens" where he says "Game over man, he grew a beard"
The judges will shrug their shoulders and say "What can we do, he grew a beard".
And then when the judges see his beard and know that they have indeed lost the battle he will not plead guilty or innocent he will simply tell the judges "The clouded mind sees nothing".
The judges will be left in a mystical trance. A confounding stupor.
He will outsmart trained law professionals at their own game. He will wince like he is using the toilet, when in really he is straining his follicle cells to grow his beard faster.
His beard will magically appear while he is wincing in the courtroom, and the judges will be like "Oh, sh@t, a beard! Retreat!"
It will be like Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail when the judges see that beard. "Run away!" "Beard!"
From now this will be known as the "Beard defense". They will teach this at law schools.
And when his beard appears on his face in front of the judges he will use his best Bugsy Malone impression and "Yeah! See?!" "What are you gonna do now? Ha ha! Beard."
Maybe people should stand back away from the tracks until the train stops? Just a thought.
How about installing safety devices. Just a thought.
Other countries have them.
I was in a Beijing subway station where they had a glass partition blocking the rail area, then the train and partition doors open simultaneously for access, but that was a brand new track, train, and subway stop built prior to their Olympics. To retrofit this here would be near impossible without replacing all the trains and a hell of alot of station revamping. There is no money for this, maybe as systems age out they will be upgraded but that could be a very long time.
They have'm in the airports, glass doos are closed until the train stops! I've also seen where there are, at least, hand-rails up.
Sounds like a wise idea to me. Also, not looking at or speaking to anyone in line etc... etc... ;)
People feel it would cost too much. They are content, unfortunately, with the occasional "push" in order to keep more of their money.
Yep..very good idea . How about a chip and remote control
#2.0 thru #2.7...Read the article...he was pushed. Just a thought.
His defense will probably rest on whether this criminal just pushed the man onto the tracks without a train coming, or if he knew a train was coming and would mean death. Either way, let's start eliminating this trash from society with the death penalty. I've read that the victim was a 58 year old husband and father. So sad that his life ended this way in such terror.
While I will agree that this is indeed a tragedy, being a husband and father does make his life anymore valuable than any other person, regardless of age, health, wealth, familial status, or any other criteria.
poet930 You know that can't be proven beyond a doubt...but it should not matter in this case. I have a feeling it won't, because that question is only known by the perp. So, it should not matter. You throw a person on a subway track, and they die...it is your fault no matter what.
Glad they caught the guy.
Still wondering about the photographer who said there was no way he could save him since the train was coming so fast. I can believe he didn't have time, but what bothers me is the fact that he, nor anyone else, even tried to run toward the man to help. Seems there should have been others in the photo running with their arms outstretched to help the poor man.
But, I guess we never know what we'd do in that situation until it happens, so best not to judge.
...sounds to me like you're judging.
No, it is called commenting.
He said he contributed by using the flash on his camera to 'warn' the train. That's more than generous for a New Yorker.
Yes, living in the Midwest for the last twenty years, I had forgotten how different things are in New York City until my son and I visited there two years ago. I was standing in line at one of the many Starbucks one morning to get my morning cup of joe, and attempted to strike up a conversation with a young woman in front of me just to pass the long wait. As soon as I spoke, she gave me a look as if she were unnerved that I was even speaking to her. Sigh. People avert their eyes and rarely even smile in return when they cross paths with you.
It's a different world there. A wonderful place to visit, but I like a little friendlier atmosphere myself.
it's hard for me to comment because to not know where this mans mind was ....or the circumstances of his every day life.....everyone comments that he was perhaps insane....but we honestly don't know that...someone else could have upset him and took it out on the next...so many scenarios....that's what is frusterating and sad about this case...not really knowing and having to wait to find the truth in this matter...god bless both families my deepest sympathies to both
The easiest way to describe New York City to one that has never been there is just to say :
If God were to give the world an enema, he would stick the nozzle in New York City.
Raquel, very sound comment from such a young person. I predict you will go far in life with that type of thinking.
The truth is this man pushed another to his death. He should be accountable for his actions.
@Raquel Davila, I have no idea what is so hard to comment on. He shoved a man in front of a train and killed him. Does it matter if he was having a bad day? No!.
I have read what I could on this and yet I have not seen any mention of what the pusher did after the fact. Did he realize the man got hit by the train and ran away?? Did he walk off not knowing what happened to the other gentleman after he pushed him? Did witnesses try to chase him down? Person taking pictures and video.. did anyone watch to see where the pusher went? The police had to go to him.. it is obvious he did not turn himself in.. very troubling story all the way around.
He will not be punished as harsh as everyone is thinking.The main reason is he was telling the guy to go away from him. If the guy would have walked awaay maybe he would be here today. Yes, he shouldn't have pushed him onto the track and that was 100% wrong, but the guy should have walked away.
Brilliant - - just brilliant. "Yeah man - get away from me " he said as he drew his gun and shot him to death. Now that is 100% wrong - but the guy should have walked away. Brilliant! Just Brilliant!!
I am soooo upset about this incident, I cant imagine the poor guys family, why couldnt someone at least try to get that poor guy from the tracks, that photographer and someone else could have had that guy out in seconds, no but his freezing moment involved taking a picture so he could sell it to the newspaper. His day will come, money is all these people about!!!
To think decades ago, we used to Institutionalize these crazies, keeping them off the streets!
Yes Bill, but then the civil rights groups got up in arms saying that we were denying the insane their rights, and with the right meds they would be ok on the streets.
With any luck, this idiot will be in jail for some time to come. At least there we don't have to worry about him making babies. I'd hate to see those brain cells reproducing.
Awww, you're right Janine! We SHOULD just toss everyone with a mental disorder into an asylum and throw away that key! And of course Janine, medical science just hasn't advanced AT all, nor have the medicines they create. You're right, no hope there, meds are just useless placebos!
You being the utter genius you are, can you explain to me how his brain cells would reproduce with another person's brain cells?
Better watch out, I think the idiot is you.
By the way: I do happen to agree that he should spend most of what he has left of his life incarcerated.
Uh, no Janine, it was Ronald Reagan who decided that no funding would be allowed for their care, and let "THEM" all out onto YOUR streets. NOT the civil rights groups you're so afraid of.
Wonder if those commenting about mental illness happen to know of anyone struggling with a mental illness? NO????? That's what I figured. Hopefully while I'm still on this earth the stigma will change. Mental Illness is a brain disorder people. These people aren't garbage they deserve respect. And I doubt that if the person that shoved this man to his death had cancer we'd be treating him this way. WAKE UP....MENTAL ILLNESS/BRAIN DISORDERS just happen to affect the brain and not the body. Read some books about mental illness and say a prayer each night that it doesn't strike you or your family. Mental Illness doesn't discriminate.....so watch out. You could be talking about your own child someday!
There very few state asylums left in America and it has a lot more to do with the availability of resources to operate them than any civil rights groups. That being said it is just as likely that this guy was pissed and overreacted as it is that he's insane.
I hope someone keeps an eye on the young man who was driving the train - that's a horrible thing to have to carry around, even though he wasn't to blame. Mental illness is a horrible thing.
there is a CURE for this type of mental sickness,its a "magic pill" aka" a BULLET between the EYES" works wonders for these wackos and sickos
Looks like you need to go pick up your prescription in that case Mark S.
Bloomberg should be calling for tighter control on subways. After all, we all know it's subway trains that kill people, not people that kill people. You know, like super sized soft drinks and hand guns.
If subways are outlawed only outlaws will have subways.
Look out! I have a subway and I'm not afraid to use it
How come the KKK aint put a 10000 bounty on this dudes dead body like the Black Panthers did to Zimmerman?
Because if that were to happen, it would be considered Racist! But I totally agree with you..
Because the KKK are vaginas.
and the black panthers are jungle bunnies, so your point is ?
Well klaus, my point seems pretty obvious from my previous statement. Comprehension does not seem to be your strong suit. I'm hardly surprised. "Aint put"???? LOLOL! IF you insist on using ain't, take note of the correct way to spell it.
Never been on a subway train. My question is why is there not some kind barrier on the platforms to prevent this kind of accident. Also some hand holds so if a rider should slip and fall on to the tracks he has a way of pulling himself up on the platform.
New York's idea of retroactive abortions.
I just got back from China. All the 'METRO STOPS"' had glass walls with automatic doors.
I guess that technology is to sophisticated for America.
New York Transit Authority should be sued for negligence.
Walls and doors. Is that so hard?
Getting the trains to line up with the doors is. We would need a hell of alot of upgrading throughout the system. China "Metro Stops" have all been built recently, it's all new infrastructure. The areas that are older are far more dangerous than what we have here. I've seen busses with no lights full of passengers driving through city streets at night in Shenyang, everything is not rosy there either.
Heck, go to ANY amusement park and wait in line for the rollercoaster!
The same guard rail, gate system that keeps you from walking in front of the oncoming rollercoaster, could be used for subways.
No Shiite. The buses and Taxis there are insane.
My second day there I kicked in the door on a taxi that almost ran over my feet.
I don't Know if they have great driving skill or they are stupid or just suicidal. The bikes and scooters are worse than the Taxis.
Luckily the women are so smoking hot.
Makes it all worth while.
With over 400 subway stations in NYC (in all boroughs) and assuming it is the usual union-controlled work at 10 million per stations not assuming the usual MTA under-estimates, it would cost billions of dollars. 1 accident or in this case criminal push every 20 years does not warrant a complete revamp of the subway system.
On another note, when you take the fools that fail to realize there is a gap between the train and the platform and they fall through, would you like us to individually carry them over the gap?
This city is full or people with no common sense and think it should be completely safe like they are wrapped in bubble wrap....while this was a 'tragic' crime, the person who pushed him should suffer the same fate, being pushed in front of a subway. But honestly, spending billions to do this is not worth.
:) True that.
Character.....agreed - in DC, all the platforms have space underneath that you can crawl into if you find yourself on the tracks. Don't know how difficult that would be to retrofit for NY platforms though.
:) True that."
Nah - I lived forty years in NY and the best women there can't hold a candle to Las Vegas women (except for my wife, of course)
Stone cold. I was talking about Guangzhou ( Canton ) China.
KDF MAN and I both were talking about China.
Vegas is pretty cool to. I live in Reno. Pretty boring here.
can't believe nobody helped this guy and pulled him up off the tracks
Clearly we must immediately demand a federal ban on
"hands." After all, there is no constitutional right to keep and bear
"hands." The mayor was quick to say that thankfully these incidents
are few and far between. Soda deaths and unlawful killings with assault rifles
are few and far between yet he wants those banned. Clearly it is time to tax
and restrict access to "hands" in NYC, the state, and the USA. Check
out:
bluecord-You truly are an idiot. If I said @!$%# they would dispose of my comment.
Clearly we must immediately demand a federal ban on
"hands." After all, there is no constitutional right to keep and bear
"hands." The mayor was quick to say that thankfully these incidents
are few and far between. Soda deaths and unlawful killings with assault rifles
are few and far between yet he wants those banned. Clearly it is time to tax
and restrict access to "hands" in NYC, the state, and the USA.
ban salt too..... its a crime in liberal democrat land, New York.... this is what happens if democrats run the country..... they have to be the craziest people on earth.
It was sad to see the victim struggling for his life to get off the track while immoral idiots were taking his picture. Put down your gosh darn cameras for one second of your life and look around you. It is too bad that each of you that stood there like cowards while watching this man die, behind your dam cameras, cannot be charged with murder too or at least accessory to murder, but you will all have to live with your guilty consciouses the rest of your pathetic lives and if there is a God, you will have to answer to him. The media should refuse to show the pictures of the victim and shame on those that do!
I could not agree with you more...a human life is worth less than the effort it would have taken to help that man and save him. What kind of world has this become.....
It was mentioned previously that the train was already pulling into the station when the man was pushed off of the platform. If the train couldn't stop in time, no one there was going to be able to do anything any quicker.
The photographer said it was something like 10 to 15 seconds that the guy spent on the track. Count that out. It certainly leaves enough time to get over to where he was. Had someone been nearby, they could have pulled him up. Then again, hindsight is 20/20.
Wasn't it in New York that someone jumped onto the track recently to save someone by holding them down? It's been a while since I've been in NY. I can't remember if there's space under the trains. Lying down might have been the better option.
BrainlessCandy--how long did it take these people to get their phones turned on and switched over to pictures and videos and how long did it take them to get a good steady, picture? Yah, thought so--they had all that time to do the aforementioned but did not have time to save this man?
I'm just saying... It would be justified as self-defense in Florida. Regardless of how you feel about the suspects actions, by what I saw in the video, the victim would be viewed as acting in a threatening manner by most of you here, especially if he was the color of the suspect.
BrainCandy....you're an idiot...and probably play the race card everyday due to your lack of talent and ability.
I'm playing the race card!? When my comment was based on the comments I've read hear on various killings! You're illiterate and an idiot to deny the rhetoric that you can read in these posts everyday.
One good push deserves another! "Eye for an eye" and all that!
If we had more progressive gun control, Han would still be with us today. oh wait! Other ways to kill people! Costas biggest idiot in the US now.
we dont need gun control we need the courts to be strict on the people caught doing a crime with a gun. We could stop it tomorrow if we made it the death penalty automatically for using a gun during a crime. Democrats would never go along with that although because we would be killing off their voting base. Guns dont kill people, people kill people. Use a gun in a crime, kill them. Now thats being progressive
This was in the news on this site - (CNN) -- A fourth man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime in the death of a black man who was beaten by a gang of young whites, then run over by a pickup truck driven by one of them in Mississippi in 2011
Why does the story above not say the same thing? Why is it when a white person kills someone elso of another race its a hate crime? When a black man killed someone elso of another race its just murder. ???????????
Witnesses say the perp was talking to himself and having a whole conversation with himself and the victim approached him and tried to engage him. If you approach a possibly crazy person and he perceives you as invading his space it's not considered "racially biased". The victim's wife said that her husband had been drinking that night is maybe why he would approach this degenerate in the first place. You do not approach a person who looks high,drunk,or homeless and try to engage them since you don't know what their mental state is. Nevertheless, may GOD bless the victim's family
Because, for it to be a hate crime, the motivation for the crime has to be hate for a certain racial group. IE, "we beat up that guy because hes a (blank)"
This isnt a hate crime, because the suspect did not attack the victim because of his race.
Try looking it up, so you dont look so ignorant. Like most of the trolls who cant seem to grasp what an actual hate crime is.
Always rght --- Good question. However, no one will answer it.
I will gladly answer that question. Always right and Matilda, if you had any level of comprehension you would have read in the article regarding the White guys that they purposely went out looking for a Black person to harass. Hence, a hate crime because they were singling out a person based on their race. No where in this article did it say that the Black guy purposely sought out an Asian to harass. Do you see the difference? Probably not.
this will be good Jesse and Al on their way
Sounds like the Asian guy was willingly engaged in the argument with the perp.
wutdatshazam: for you to make fun of a human tragedy tells me that you're a pathetic piece if sh%&^#
Hope someone extends a hand to you in your troubled times. Karma is a bit#%* there is a GOD.
Yeah, lot's of racist pathetic PsOS in this thread msjcook2. Please be sure to reprimand all the "Al Sharpton" and "ni99er" comments on here as well, alrighty then?
Some random thoughts:
Now they have to limit the sales of subway cars...
How did he get off track?
He should have been trained better.
The deli man/murderer will sit in a prison cell for a while with nothing to do but beating his meat!
maybe the tracks could install a device that automatically slows the train down as it approaches the opening to the tunnel where people are so that the train is literally going 5 miles an hour. with a little more time maybe he could have got off the tracks. i am surprised this does not happen more often - even if by accident.
That would make for some very very long subway rides
they can zip along ion the tunnel but slow up where the loading statiuon is - maybe not stop at every stop - i do not live in a city where we have transportation like this - maybe this happens so in frequently it is not worth it but what is the price for a human life. we go through a litany of security to catch a flight - i guess take an earlier train by 15 minutes.
look at the photo !!!!!!
Why didn't the Photographer help the victim?
This is really tragic. If those tracks were not there, this man would still be alive today, right Bob?
No, It's George Bush's fault. Don't you watch the news.
" If i had a son he would be just like Naeem" Come on Jesse and Al... and Obama, and the rest of the race baiters, like Eric Holder, and lets stick up for the piece of @!$%#
seems like you're the race baiter trying to stir up something. Must be a redneck
I think i be smellen a welfare rat
Glad they caught this nutcase. He was a danger to all as long as he was loose. Atleast now his victims family will have justice.
I hope they give him life, no parole. He should never walk free again.
give him life????WTF just toss him in front of a moving TRAIN and let the rails of justice take place
hate crime...oh wait he's black...not gonna happen!!! wake up america...
I was wondering. Remember Zimmerman and the Black Panthers putting a 10 thousand dollar bounty on his dead body? Did Obama, Eric Holder, or the State Controlled Media report it?? Wonder what would happen if the KKK put a 10 thousand dollar bounty on old Naeems head..... I bet the @!$%# would hit the fan from the racist idiots in the White House then, and the Obama controlled Communist Media!!
You keep forgetting that Obama is half white. why don't you pray for the family of the victim instead? You stupid instigator,bet you voted for Romney? This country doesn't need division.
@santaklaus
Actually, idiot. There was no bounty. If there were a real bounty, Zimmerman would be dead by a professional hit to look like an accident.... get off the racial bull@!$%#. This could have easily been a angry insane White guy, Asian or Middle Eastern guy arguing then pushing a native or female off the rail. My point is insanity has no racial preference.
It could only be a hate crime if he intended to push Han into the path of the train and his reason for doing so was that Han was Asian. I don't think hate crimes as a separate category are needed, after all if you kill someone you probably do hate them at least at that moment, it should be considered as an aggravating factor at sentencing in my opinion that being said just because people of different races/sexual orientation/religion commit a crime against each other it is not automatically a hate crime, those differences have to be a substantial part of the motivation for the crime. If you beat a guy to death because he's black or whatever than that's a hate crime, if you beat him to death because you caught him sleeping with your wife that is not a hate crime.
My eyes must have decieved me when i saw the sign asking for the body of Zimmerman from the Black Panthers marching... you know, the ones that obama marched with in the past. Obama may be half white, but he sure dont claim that half... Actually if you go on youtube, you can watch obama claim he is a muslim and praise them to death.... So i would say that we have an enemy in the white House that we had better keep a close eye on..... Maybe those were speaches he made overseas to his loveable muslim countries and was trying to butter up with. But he said he is a muslim and loves the muslim call to prayer, "to me its the sweetest sound in the world" Those are his words, not mine. I feel sorry for the victem and the person that did the crime, and cant figure out what kind of animal would do something like that... i cont care what the other guy did, creatures like this belong in a zoo, not out in public.
Why is is that everytime something happens concerning Black people Obama's name comes up? He is not the representative of everything black. You all keep forgetting that he is half white. Obama is the president of the UNITED States of America, not the state of being Black in America!
Well put. Obama in his formative years was not exposed to the Black culture of mainland America. He has much more of a world view and I doubt he ever felt that he was a victim of anything because of his race. It certainly didn't hold him back.