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A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform into the path of a train because she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought he was one was charged Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said.

Erika Menendez was charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a 7 train in Queens on Thursday night, the second time this month a commuter has died in such a nightmarish fashion.

Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said. She could face 25 years to life in prison if convicted. She was in custody and couldn't be reached for comment, and it was unclear if she had an attorney.

Menendez, who was arrested after a tip by a passer-by who saw her on a street and thought she looked like the woman in a surveillance video released by police, admitted shoving Sen, who was pushed from behind, authorities said.

"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up," Menendez told police, according to the district attorney's office.

Sen was from India, but police said it was unclear if he was Muslim, Hindu or of some other faith. The 46-year-old lived in Queens and ran a printing shop. He was shoved from an elevated platform on the 7 train line, which connects Manhattan and Queens. Witnesses said a muttering woman rose from her seat on a platform bench and pushed him on the tracks as a train entered the station and then ran off.

The two had never met before, authorities said, and witnesses told police they hadn't interacted on the platform.

Police released a sketch and security camera video showing a woman running from the station where Sen was killed.

Menendez was arrested by police earlier Saturday after a passer-by on a Brooklyn street spotted her and called 911. Police responded, confirmed her identity and took her into custody, where she made statements implicating herself in the crime, police spokesman Paul Browne said.

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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto


Or should she be locked up in a prison cell for the rest of her life?

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto
Or should she be locked up in a prison cell for the rest of her life?

B.  Mental institution.  This woman needs some serious help with her anger issues amongst other issues. 
To put it another way, this woman does not have issues.  She has a lifetime subscription, the swimsuit edition, AND the football phone. 

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto


Or should she be locked up in a prison cell for the rest of her life?

B.  Mental institution.  This woman needs some serious help with her anger issues amongst other issues. 

To put it another way, this woman does not have issues.  She has a lifetime subscription, the swimsuit edition, AND the football phone. 

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

25 years to life...no mental ward...regular prison...just like all violent criminals.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

This.
If having a chip on your shoulder about an ethnic group is a mental health issue, then Bernard Manning belonged in a secure unit rather than on stage.
Or was everybody who's making that excuse for a ridiculous sow murdering somebody in cold blood perfectly cool with the Fallujah attack and associated body desecrations because the evil muslims who did that were clearly raving mad?

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Being a stupid cunt with a chip on your shoulder isn't any more of a mental issue in New York than it is in Fallujah.
Trying to make excuses for a murder because somebody might possibly not have all their screws properly tightened is utterly reprehensible.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Being a stupid cunt with a chip on your shoulder isn't any more of a mental issue in New York than it is in Fallujah.
Trying to make excuses for a murder because somebody might possibly not have all their screws properly tightened is utterly reprehensible.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

This.
If having a chip on your shoulder about an ethnic group is a mental health issue, then Bernard Manning belonged in a secure unit rather than on stage.
Or was everybody who's making that excuse for a ridiculous sow murdering somebody in cold blood perfectly cool with the Fallujah attack and associated body desecrations because the evil muslims who did that were clearly raving mad?

I have no problem with her having a chip on her shoulder.  People can hate others if they want to. 

It is the actions that are the problem. 

This woman does not know right from wrong. 

There was something that happened recently here in the US.  Since then there has been a lot of discussion about mental health.  And for Americans to receive help with their mental issues.  I judge this woman to be criminally insane.  I think a mental institution rather than a prison would be safer for everyone. 




What happened in Fallujah took place within a different cultural venue.  Not the same.