A Brooklyn subway rider has made a citizen’s arrest after witnessing a woman attack another rider and call her a racial slur.
Anna Lushchinskaya, 40, was charged with felony assault on Tuesday morning following the altercation on a northbound D train in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, the NYPD said.
Video from the bizarre incident, shot by podcaster Juan Ayala , does not show what led to the altercation at 7.50am on the crowded train during the morning commute.
Lushchinskaya is seen screaming ‘f**k off, f**k off’ at the woman standing beside her, who is silent and appears preoccupied with her phone.
Lushchinskaya is seen screaming ‘f**k off, f**k off’ at the woman standing beside her, and then takes her sunglasses off and pulls her hair back as if preparing for battle
The blonde aggressor then slaps at the other woman’s hand, and appears to begin preparing for combat by taking her sunglasses and gloves off, pulling her hair back, and whipping out her umbrella.
After a minute of such agitated preparations, Lushchinskaya suddenly kicks the other woman, who kicks her back.
Other passengers intervene and try to break up the fight. ‘Yo lady, just chill out ok?’ one says, while another shouts ‘please stop’.
‘You’re not letting me hit her back!’ complains Lushchinskaya, who goes on to call a man who is trying to stop her ‘f**king retarded’.
Lushchinskaya wields her small umbrella as a cudgel and continues to try to kick the other passenger as others hold her back.
Lushchinskaya wields her small umbrella as a cudgel and continues to try to kick the other woman as other straphangers hold her back
Passengers hold Lushchinskaya back, before she shocks the crowded train by shouting ‘f**king ch**k’ at the other woman, who is Asian
Passengers hold Lushchinskaya back, before she shocks the crowded train by shouting ‘f**king ch**k’ at the other woman, who is Asian
The woman who is being attacked, who has been silent throughout, finally pipes up, saying: ‘You come touch me, I will punch you right back. I don’t care who the f**k you are.’
As Lushchinskaya continues trying to beat the woman with her umbrella in a rage, a man intervenes and grabs the umbrella from her.
‘You’re going to make us all late for work, b***h,’ one man says.
Lushchinskaya spits on the floor and again screams ‘f**k off’ as she flicks off the woman she had been trying to fight, who is Asian.
‘F**king ch**k,’ Lushchinskaya then screamed at her foe, drawing gasps from the crowded train.
‘What! What!’ shouts Ayala, the man filming the video. ‘Your white privilege ain’t working over here, get the f**k out of here.’
Juan Ayala, who filmed the video, detained the woman at the station until police arrived
‘You already know she voted from Trump,’ he continues.
Ayala, who hosts a podcast titled Juan & Nyle’s Podcast, then swooped into action to make a citizen’s arrest until police arrived.
‘She tried me so I had to detain her until the cops showed up,’ he said, posting a photo of himself holding her hands behind her back.
Another photo shows police taking Lushchinskaya into custody.
New York state law permits any private person to use physical force, other than deadly physical force, to detain a person who commits a felony in their presence, and is in fact guilty of the felony.