A man who identifies as a woman was charged with a hate crime after allegedly pepper spraying six people and threatening another with a sharp object last week. All of the alleged victims were white.
It is unclear just how many alleged attacks were committed and just when they started. According to police, Thomas J. Heard, 37, who is black, according to The New York Times, was eventually traced by police with the help of his alleged first victim, whom he attacked with a sharp object in the Bronx, as Fox News reported. Other alleged attacks by Heard included using a pepper spray-like substance on a man at the 125th St. subway station, then pepper-spraying five more people when Heard reached the street. Another alleged attack followed, in which Heard attacked a woman waiting for another subway train.
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