Tag: hate-crime

Four teenage boys sought in homophobic hate crime assault in Astoria: NYPD

Mar. 4, 2024 By bparry

[caption id="attachment_72086" align="alignnone" width="606"] The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force needs help in identifying four suspects in their mid-teens who shouted homophobic rhetoric while attacking two 36-year-old men in Astoria last Wednesday. Photos courtesy of the NYPD[/caption]
Mar. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry

Woodside temple burglary now being investigated as hate crime: NYPD

Jan. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is now investigating a commercial burglary that took place at a Woodside house of worship during the early hours on Wednesday, Jan. 3. Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City reported that the suspect entered the Shri Guru Ravi Dass Temple… Read more »

Cops searching for woman who kicked, yelled slurs at victim on 7 train in Woodside

Police are searching for a woman who kicked and yelled slurs at another woman on a 7 train in Queens.

Oct. 22, 2023 By Ben Brachfeld Police are searching for an unidentified woman who kicked and hurled racial epithets at another straphanger while riding a 7 train in Queens on Friday. Authorities say that at about 7:30 a.m. on Friday, aboard a Flushing-bound 7 train, a 28-year-old woman was kicked without provocation by another…