6 OCTOBER 10, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Manhattan man pleads guilty to FH hate crime
BY BILL PARRY
BPARRY@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
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 offi ce.
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 aft er 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 fl oor resulting in
multiple injuries to her head and neck,
according to court records.
Allasheed Allah is led into a waiting police car outside the 112th Precinct stationhouse on Dec. 13.
Photo: Mark Hallum/QNS
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 hate-inspired 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.
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