A NYC woman was caught on camera shouting anti-Semitic slurs before allegedly ripping at a Jewish rider’s hair on the subway.
Diana Smith of the Bronx was identified by police as the woman who allegedly started the heinous attack by spewing hate-filled remarks on Sunday, according to The New York Post.
Smith was aboard a crowded train in Lower Manhattan at 2.15pm when she allegedly attacked a 23-year-old Jewish woman from the Upper West Side.
In a video posted on social media, Smith – wearing a camouflage jacket – is seen standing on the train and shouting: ‘Jews are eating kids!’
Smith then appears to address the 23-year-old woman directly, nodding and saying, ‘You’re a Jew, I smell the kids,’ while smiling.
The video then cuts to the deranged lady allegedly reaching toward the victim as bystanders can be heard gasping, while she continues yelling, ‘Jews are eating kids.’
A few other train passengers tried to calm the situation, but Smith continued shouting, ‘It’s ok for Jews to eat kids, but I can’t choke her now.’
‘I was just assaulted,’ the young victim said as she turned the camera onto herself before panning it back to Smith.
Diana Smith allegedly shouted antisemitic remarks on a NYC subway
She allegedly attacked a 23-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman
The victim said Smith attacked her and ripped out her hair
The victim – a nurse and Montreal native who asked not to be identified – told the Post she had been on the train for just one stop when Smith boarded.
The Bronx woman allegedly began warning a couple about what she claimed were the ‘dangers of Jews stealing wealth.’
Smith allegedly said: ‘You could always see the reflection of a Jew,’ then turned toward the 23-year-old and stared at her while smiling eerily, per the victim.
‘I decided in that moment I really did not want to show fear in the face of that, so I stared at her right back down, and I said, “So you see my reflection?”
‘And she said, “Yeah, and I smell it on you too,”‘ the Jewish woman told the outlet.
Part of the harassment was caught on camera, but after the victim’s phone was knocked from her hand, she said Smith allegedly choked her and pushed her to the ground.
The Jewish woman added her hair was pulled so forcefully that a clump was ripped from her scalp.
No one intervened with Smith’s behavior ‘until it was too late,’ the victim said.
The 23-year-old escaped from the train at the next stop to flag down the police, while another train rider pushed the emergency button.
The victim told the NY Post that she also suffered a concussion from the ordeal
No one intervened with Smith’s behavior ‘until it was too late,’ the victim said
The victim, who blurred herself out of the video, said she was assaulted by Smith
Smith was arrested shortly after, and is facing a slew of charges including hate crime assault, hate crime criminal obstruction of breathing and aggravated harassment, according to court records obtained by the outlet.
‘When I had to identify her, a ton of people were like, “Oh, we saw what happened, are you OK?”
‘And, that was extremely triggering for me, because, of course, I’m not OK. I kept just thinking, I’m not in Nazi Germany,’ the woman told the outlet.
The Jewish woman said she suffered a concussion from the ordeal.
‘She’s pure evil, but she was lucid enough to know I was Jewish,’ the victim told the outlet.
