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White teen charged with hate crime in Brooklyn mob assault on Black teen

Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on

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NEW YORK — A 16-year-old boy is facing multiple hate-crime charges after he and a mob of white teens attacked a Black teenager at a Brooklyn subway station, where they hurled racial slurs at the victim — and pelted him with a banana — cops said Thursday.

After being taken into custody along with a 14-year-old boy on Wednesday, cops charged the older boy with robbery and assault as a hate crime, as well as gang assault, police said.

The NYPD did not disclose the name of the 16-year-old hate crime suspect because of his age. The 14-year-old boy was released without charges.

The department’s Hate Crime Task Force is still looking for the teen’s accomplices.

The incident happened at 8 a.m. Monday at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. subway station in Coney Island, police said, the terminus station where a 57-year-old woman was set on fire and killed in December.

The 16-year-old victim, who was on his way to school, was confronted by a group of strangers on the mezzanine level, he told police.

 

The mob mocked him with the N-word and assaulted him, striking him in the head, and then repeatedly punching and kicking him in his body, police said.

They also stole one of his sneakers, cops said, then ran off. The sneaker was later found in the station.

Video of the attack was posted on Instagram but was later taken down, a police source said.

The victim initially said he did not need to see a doctor, police said, but he later was treated at South Brooklyn Health for minor injuries.


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