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QUEENS WEEKLY,OCTOBER 13, 2019
Allasheed Allah is led into a waiting police car outside the 112th Precinct stationhouse on Dec.
13. Photo: Mark Hallum/QNS
Manhattan man pleads
guilty to Forest Hills
hate crime assault: DA
BY BILL PARRY
A Manhattan man has
admitted to committing a
hate crime by shoving and
hurling homophobic slurs
at a woman as she rode a
Manhattan-bound E train
last year, according to the
Queens District Attorney’s
office.
East Harlem resident Allasheed
Allah, 54, appeared
before Queens Criminal
Court Judge Mary Bejarano
on Oct. 2 and pleaded guilty
to one count of third-degree
assault as a hate crime.
According to the charges,
just after 5 p.m. on Nov.
20, 2018, at the 71st Avenue
subway station in Forest
Hills, Allah began to argue
with a 20-year-old woman
on the train. The victim was
with a female friend, who
kissed her on the cheek.
Allah seeing this, yelled
out “kiss her again you d–e
expletive” and followed
the pair as they exited the
train, according to the
charges. The defendant
walked behind the victim
and struck her once in the
head and chest, shoving
her into a nearby pole. The
contact caused the woman
to hit both the pole and the
floor resulting in multiple
injuries to her head and
neck, according to court
records.
When questioned by police,
the Allah admitted to
pushing the victim because
she was “disrespecting me
with all that gay expletive,”
according to the
charges.
“In pleading guilty, the
defendant has admitted to
attacking a woman solely
based on his belief that she
was gay. That kind of hateinspired
assault is intolerable
and we won’t stand for
it here in Queens County
— the most diverse county
in the country,” Acting
Queens District Attorney
John M. Ryan said. “The
defendant will go to prison
as a result of his vicious
attack. The victim, I am
happy to say, has recovered
and hopefully will be able
to put this horrible incident
behind her forever.”
Judge Bejarano indicated
she will sentence Allah
to one to three years in
prison on Nov. 7.
Reach reporter Bill Parry
by e-mail at bparry@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone
at (718) 260–4538.
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