An Unlikely "Fight"

UPDATE: Caught in a lie!

The man who survived now has a lawyer,  Joshua Stein, who says "There was no altercation."


The would-be killer simply saw the victim and pushed.  

ANOTHER LIE?

Did the train operator lie?

[Steven Switzer the train operator] " ... told cops he didn’t see the alleged push."

Quoting the Daily News: "A second witness told police the platform was very crowded and she “saw a hand extend through the crowd and push an individual who she saw falling into the tracks.”


LINK The Daily News 

This is what the MTA and the Transit Bureau of the NYPD want you to believe: two men, who do not know each other, get into a fight on a nearly-deserted subway platform at an off-peak hour (6:45 a.m.). One of the "fighters" pushes the other man onto the tracks as a train roars into the station. The victim survives but loses the lower part of his left leg.

Here's what I think really happened: a criminal (police video shows he jumped the turnstile) saw a lone man on the platform and decided to attack him.

Why would the Transit Bureau of the NYPD tell such a "story" of what happened? To answer that question ask another: Which scenario would you prefer if you were an ethics-free lawyer defending a legal suit brought by the man who lost his leg? That the victim was a completely innocent crime victim or he was to blame for "fighting" on the platform?

As readers of this site know, I am convinced that the NYPD's Transit Bureau is dedicated to a "see no evil" approach to fatal track incidents. Based on past experience if this man had not survived the police would have told the press "We don't know why he was on the track but there is no evidence of foul play." That's what they did in twenty-five separate incidents in 2012.

Here's the Daily News story: Man pushes fellow straphanger into Bronx subway tracks after fight breaks out on platform and here's the one from DNAinfo: Police Hunt Suspect Who Shoved Man in Front of Subway.

(Note from the DNAinfo story that the police released a video of the criminal on the street, not in the subway in the act of pushing the victim. The police and the MTA lawyers are quite content to have no videos of what really happens during subway accidents crimes. In transit systems where the police are not beholden to civil defense attorneys, like London, this event would have been video-recorded as was this one. )

Another Track "Accident"

Man Struck by Train at 7th Ave. Station in Brooklyn, MTA Says

by Ben Fractenberg | January 20, 2017 4:21pm | Updated on January 20, 2017 4:46pm

BROOKLYN — A man was hit by a train at the Seventh Avenue station in Prospect Heights Friday afternoon, disrupting B and Q service, according to the MTA.

The man was hit by a northbound B train after getting on the tracks at about 3:37 p.m., according to the FDNY and MTA. It was not immediately clear how he got down from the platform or the severity of his injuries, though an MTA spokeswoman said he was still alive after being struck.

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Another passenger "volunteers" to be struck by a train.

Most of these "crazy" people do that very late at night when there are few witnesses.

I don't know how active this Brooklyn station is in mid-afternoon but the MTA need not worry.

It can count on the NYPD's Transit Bureau to do "the usual," ensuring that no one is to blame except the "crazy" track walker.

(I do hope this citizen survives.)

This "accident" is the latest of a recent string of others, three of which also happened in Brooklyn.

Is there be a serial killer loose in Brooklyn? 

Or even a small group who are convinced that their track-murders will never be investigated?

Three Fatal "Accidents"

Man Struck and Killed by A Train in Clinton Hill, Police Say 

By Aidan Gardiner | January 13, 2017

BROOKLYN — A man was struck and killed by an A train in Clinton Hill Friday morning, NYPD officials said.

The victim, who police were still trying to identify, was on the tracks at the Clinton-Washington Avenue station at about 4 a.m. when the train struck him, police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police described the man as in his 40s or 50s.

It wasn't immediately clear why he was on the tracks, police said.

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Comment: I doubt that the police even considered homicide as a possible cause. Based on several years' reading reports of scores of unwitnessed track deaths I'm convinced the NYPD routinely blames the victim for his violent track death. 

Their favorite explanations: he was walking on the tracks or he was walking between cars and fell: 

Update on January 15, 2017: According to the Daily News the NYPD assures the public: "It was not immediately clear why the man was on the tracks, but police do not suspect any criminality."

Person Fatally Struck by L Train, Officials Say

By Ben Fractenberg | January 10, 2017

 

BROOKLYN — L train service was disrupted after a person was fatally struck by a train in Bushwick Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

The person was found in the subway tunnel near Wilson Avenue at about 2:24 p.m. after a Manhattan-bound train hit the victim, an MTA spokeswoman said. 

It was not immediately clear if the person was walking between stations or if he or she was walking between subway cars and fell off the train onto the tracks. 

Officials did not have any immediate information on the person's identity.


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Comment: Note that the only possible explanations mentioned are that the victim is to blame for his or her death.  Anyone with subway experience knows there are safety chains in place to prevent accidental falls and that no sane person walks on tracks. At mid-afternoon in some remote subway stations passenger activity is very low, ensuring that homicides will have no witnesses.

Man Fatally Struck by Train at Kings Highway Station, Officials Say

By Ben Fractenberg | January 10, 2017

BROOKLYN — A man was fatally struck by a train at the Kings Highway station, disrupting B and Q service ahead of the evening rush, according to officials.

The man was hit at about 4:16 p.m. and pronounced dead at the station, an FDNY spokesman said.

 Service resumed at the station with residual delays at about 5:56 p.m., according to the MTA.

 ... There was no information on the man’s identity immediately available.

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Comment: I could find no mention of these three violent deaths in New York newspapers. 

It looks like nothing will change in 2017. Transit Bureau NYPD officials will protect the MTA from law suits, the media will continue to ignore the outrageous corruption, thugs will kill with impunity and the world's largest transit system will continue to operate without cameras that could have recorded how these three victims were killed.