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 subwayaccidents 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. )
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
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