NYPD reports 2 stabbing subway incidents: 52-year-old man attacked for refusing to stop smoking and woman stabbed in the back



Two people were stabbed in separate incidents on the New York City subway, according to the New York Police Department.

One incident was reported at the Franklin Avenue Station in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday. A 21-year-old woman was stabbed several times in the back.

Police said the suspect in that attack was a woman wearing all black who fled from the scene. The victim was transported to Kings County Hospital and is likely to survive.

In the second incident, a 52-year-old man refused to stop smoking and got into an argument over it, according to police. He was stabbed in the back several times during the argument. That incident unfolded on the J train near the Kosciuszko Street station in Brooklyn at about 5 a.m.

The victim was transported to the Kings County hospital and is reported to be in stable condition. A suspect was taken into custody in that incident, and he was described as a man in his fifties.

The New York Daily News reported that crime had risen by 7% this year compared to last year in the same time frame. Assaults had increased by 8% while petty larcenies were up by 13%.

In one harrowing incident caught on cellphone video, two men got into an altercation that led to one attacking the other and then getting stabbed by his girlfriend. After he realized he had been stabbed, he pulled out a gun that led to a scuffle until his gun was wrestled away and he was shot in the head with it.

Officials said the shooter would not likely face charges as it appears that he fired in self-defense. The attacker was identified as 36-year-old Dajuan Robinson, and the victim was identified as 32-year-old Younece Obuad.

In February, the NYPD said that a severed human leg had been found on the subway train tracks in the Bronx borough. Police later said that their investigation led them to believe the leg belonged to a man who had been struck by the subway on Feb. 12. The leg had been covered up by snow so that it was not discovered until several days later by an MTA worker.

Here's a local news report about the incidents:

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Cops hunting for man who launched flammable liquid attack on group of people in NYC subway



The NYPD is on the hunt for a suspect who was caught on video launching a flammable liquid attack on a group of people standing on a New York City subway platform last month.

The eye-opening incident happened in the West 28th Street subway station at approximately 7:40 p.m. on Feb. 5, the NYPD said on Wednesday.

The flammable liquid attack happened on the southbound No. 1 train platform in Manhattan.

The NYPD released surveillance video showing the suspect holding two flaming cans while standing at a turnstile. He is seen shouting at a group of people.

Police said the man then hurled the flaming cans at the group of people. The man then fled the crime scene.

Investigators said the targets of the flaming containers did not know the man and the attack was unprovoked.

Fortunately, there were no injuries from the attack.

Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying the subway attack suspect.

The suspect is described as a black man in his 30s and standing approximately six feet tall. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, a black jacket, black pants, and black sandals.

The NYPD is urging anyone with information about the suspect or the attack to contact police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

The attack is one of many that have marred New York City's subways. The crime has been so rampant that New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul decided earlier this month to deploy 750 National Guardsmen to New York City subway systems to combat the surge of crime.

On Thursday, a NYC man shot another in the head in self-defense on the subway during a fight. The shooter is likely not to face any charges, according to authorities.

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New York deploys National Guard in subway to reduce crime, but is that what it's really about?



It appears woke cities are beginning to acknowledge that their soft-on-crime policies are actually encouraging more crime. Funny how that works.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, for example, has decided to send 750 National Guard troops to New York City’s subways to crack down on the growing violence.

While crime in the subway is up 45% year on year, Glenn Beck doesn’t believe a pseudo-military state is the best solution.

“She says that’s going to help with crime in the subways,” Glenn says, but “there’s another way to do that.”

That other way, of course, is enforcing the laws and jailing criminals, rather than mimicking the stop-and-frisk method.

“So, she sends in 750 uniformed National Guard soldiers with orders to search bags for weapons and other dangerous stuff — so, isn’t that stop and frisk? I think that is,” Glenn says.

In one recent story that illustrates Glenn’s point of enforcing the law and jailing criminals, four people were arrested in connection to three incidents of human remains being found on Long Island.

All four were charged on Wednesday with first degree hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence, and concealment of a human corpse. All four pleaded not guilty; however, they have not been charged with the murder of the two victims.

They’re now on unsupervised release.

“Wouldn’t it be better to put the people who are charged with crimes, even grizzly, heinous crimes, into jail, and not let them right back out on the street? I’m just saying, that’s an idea,” Glenn says.

Glenn believes there’s a reason the increase in crime and the real solutions are being ignored — and it’s not mere incompetence.

“This administration is doing nothing but empowering all the people that would love to see us live in chaos,” Glenn says.


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Thai model viciously attacked by NYC mugger; suspect was previously arrested 44 times including 16 arrests in one day



Nearly three months after Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, was brutally attacked and robbed in a New York City subway, her alleged assailant has finally been caught.

On Thursday, Kevin Douglas, 40, was arrested and charged with second-degree robbery, third-degree robbery, and second-degree assault, according to the New York Post.

Douglas is accused of viciously attacking Jirajariyawetch around 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the subway platform in the Herald Square station.

Video surveillance shows a man attacking Jirajariyawetch from behind. He is choking her with one arm and pulls her to the ground. The man steals the woman's purse, but still savagely punches Jirajariyawetch in the face.

The beating left the woman bloody and bruised.

On 11/22 at the Herald Square station, in this shocking video, suspect attacks 23YO Bew Jirajariyawetch on the platform. The suspect places her in a headlock, throws her to the ground then sexually assaults her before fleeing w/ her with her purse. (Video provided by attorney)pic.twitter.com/3xUge6AzOl
— Sarah Y. Kim (@Sarah Y. Kim) 1639626217

Jirajariyawetch – an aspiring model and fashion designer – had just come to the United States from Thailand only a few months before the barbarous battering.

"I’m just glad that I’m still alive," she told the Post.

Upon learning of the arrest of her alleged attacker, she said, "Nothing can change what happened to me but I am happy to know he can not do this to someone else."

Eric Parnes – Jirajariyawetch's lawyer – said, "Although this took an incredible amount of pressure and time to lead to an arrest, it does show that when the police and prosecutors are allowed to do their job without illogical restraints people can have some sense of hope that things can be better."

Douglas is no stranger to being arrested. Before his last arrest, Douglas had reportedly been arrested 44 times on charges that included drugs, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, robbery, and criminal tampering. On May 13, 2019, Douglas was arrested 16 times, according to the New York Post.

The same day that he mugged the Thai model, he was allegedly arrested for an afternoon clobbering of a 34-year-old woman when he punched her in the face.

On Thursday, Douglas was arraigned on the latest charges in Manhattan Supreme Court before Judge Curtis Farber, who set bail at $75,000. Douglas is scheduled to appear in court on April 11 for the subway mugging.

According to NYPD data, robberies are up by nearly 35% in New York City compared to last year at this point. Burglaries are up 11% and felony assault increased year-over-year. Crimes committed in the city's transit system are up a whopping 74% this year.

Kevin Douglas, 40, arrested for 11/22 subway station attack on Thai model.\nWas already on Rikers for incident later that day; pushed open a woman's door and punched her in the face.\nHas 44 priors. Was arrested 16 times on one day alone.https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/queens-man-busted-for-nyc-subway-attack-on-thai-model/\u00a0\u2026
— Crime in NYC (@Crime in NYC) 1644724701

Horowitz: While Andrew Cuomo uses law enforcement to target New York Jews, violent criminals terrorize subways



The Revolutionary War was fought, in the words of Sam Adams on Aug. 1, 1776, to determine whether "there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." The purpose of just governance is laid out plainly in our Constitution — to "secure the blessings of liberty," but at the same time to "establish justice" and "ensure domestic tranquility." New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo flipped this founding principle upside down by using government to harass New York's Jews and target their inalienable rights, while releasing criminals and blithely ignoring the violence on the streets. Indeed, revolutions have been fought over lesser abuses and usurpations.

After Cuomo singled out the Orthodox Jewish community by name for causing the increased spread in the virus (which is occurring in almost every part of the world), inspectors from many state enforcement agencies fanned out in their communities to issue citations. One local Jewish publication took a picture of a target list from inspectors, which revealed that every business or institution on the list was Jewish. In what makes the revolutionary-era British tax collectors and the Townshend Acts look like a liberty paradise, there are now city inspectors harassing Jewish business owners and falsely accusing them of not complying with recent coronavirus restrictions.

Jewish restaurant owner pleads with misinformed NYC inspector who is citing him with a court summons/fine for “viol… https://t.co/04KtkYsQat
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While Cuomo is very concerned about a temporary rise in cases because it interferes with the optics of his book release, he doesn't appear to be bothered by large gatherings that are not Jewish. Last week, a wedding planned for the granddaughter of a known Rabbi in the city was shut down by Cuomo. Yet just two days earlier, not a word was said by Cuomo or his officials about a large BLM rally for Breonna Taylor in Manhattan.

Cuomo has also targeted in-person classes of Jewish schools in certain zip codes, even though his own data from randomized testing shows no statistical spread of the virus by New York City schoolchildren.

Closing religious schools, houses of worship, and businesses … these are the things that were not tampered with even by King George. Revolutions were fought over less.

But it gets worse. You might think that Governor Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio have so many resources on hand to pursue a war against civil and religious liberty, particularly targeting Jews, because the city is safe from crime. Not a chance! New York City is experiencing its worst increase in crime since the early 1990s, and the subways are beginning to look like they did during the days of David Dinkins.

The family of Bi He, 73, and husband Ren Bao, 82, would sure have wanted Cuomo's laser-beam focus on obeying laws to have been present in the Brooklyn subway on Monday when they and their grandson were brutally attacked. Bi He had her foot twisted, was shoved onto the tracks, and would have been run over if not for the quick reaction by the train conductor of the oncoming subway car. Unfortunately for them and for the increasing number of subway attack victims, the attacker was likely not Jewish, so Cuomo won't flood the subways with inspectors and police

The previous evening, a man was randomly shot in the neck while waiting on a subway platform in Manhattan. Last Friday night, a 30-year-old woman was found dead, face-down in a Brooklyn subway. Every week, there are more brazen and heinous assaults committed on the subways, often targeting elderly people.

The lack of deterrent against subway violence stemming from the breakdown in law and order is emblematic of the broader problem on New York's streets this year. Overall, the number of shooting incidents in the city increased 127% in September over the same period last year. And while Cuomo and de Blasio criminalize basic life, liberty, and property under the puerile assumption that they can stop a virus, they are using the same virus as a pretext to keep thousands of criminals out of state and city jails. Meanwhile, the NYPD is catching these same people committing more crimes after they are released.

So, with all this crime and mayhem, where are the police? I guess Cuomo is too busy patrolling Jewish weddings. After all, he wants to keep everyone safe.