Hate crime in Penn Station

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CRAZED SLASHER HELD IN PENN STA. ATTACK: COPS

Friday,January 26,2001 NY Post

By IKIMULISA SOCKWELL-MASON and ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

A crazed homeless woman inside Penn Station slashed the face of a Wall Street worker with a 4-inch blade yesterday, using a racial slur in a boast to cops just moments after the grisly attack, authorities said.

"I got me a white b - - - -," Janice Pasterisa, who is black, allegedly yelled as she was being handcuffed. "And I'm proud of it."

Pasterisa, 38, was charged with felony assault and weapons possession in the knife attack on the commuter, and attempted aggravated assault for trying to attack the cops who busted her, police said. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital for a psychiatric observation.

The victim, a 48-year-old Whitestone woman whose name is being withheld by The Post, is an executive assistant to a vice president on the American Stock Exchange. She was rushed to New York University Medical Center, where it took 30 stitches to close the wounds on the left side of her face.

Her husband said doctors told him "if it had been just a centimeter higher, it would have severed all the nerves and she would have lost her eye."

"She's very lucky," the husband said.

The woman normally takes a commuter express bus to work, but she used the Long Island Rail Road yesterday because she had a 7 a.m. meeting, her husband said.

At just past 6 a.m., as the woman waited inside Penn Station for a subway downtown, she was confronted by Pasterisa "nose to nose - like 2 inches away," the husband said.

"Can I please have the time?" Pasterisa asked, according to the husband.

As the victim glanced at her watch, Pasterisa attacked her, he said.

A retired cop who saw the suspect running with a 4-inch folding knife flagged down Port Authority officers Paul Nunziato and Patrick Callaghan.

The cops, aided by NYPD Lt. Anthony Bravada and Officer Joe Ehlers, cornered her at Sixth Avenue and 33rd Street. Pasterisa, who is 5-foot-6 and weighs 170 pounds, allegedly resisted.

"She tried to stab all of us," Nunziato said, adding that the woman didn't seem to react when two of the cops pepper-sprayed her.

Nunziato finally knocked the knife out of her hand with his riot baton, and she was arrested.

"We would have been justified, but I'm just glad we didn't shoot her," Nunziato said. "I absolutely thought she was going to stab someone and wind up getting shot."



-- (PC_cop@NYPD.Blue), January 26, 2001

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"We would have been justified, but I'm just glad we didn't shoot her," Nunziato said. "I absolutely thought she was going to stab someone and wind up getting shot."

IF and I say if, it would have been me and IF again I say if I had a gun, I'd of shot the bitch in a heartbeat. And been justified to do so.

Bet she'd of got shot in one of them states where it is legal to carry a gun.....I betcha.

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), January 26, 2001.


John Aschroft

-- comma dash at-symbol ampersand dot dollar sign (,-@&.$), January 28, 2001.

This was not a hate-crime. Only white people do hate crimes. Sister Pasterisa was a victim of a racist society. The young men in Wichita who recently raped and executed 4 young whites that they did not know were victims of a racist society. Colin Ferguson who mass-murdered whites on a Long Island RR commuter train was a victim of a racist society.

I'd explain more to you benighted honkies but I must go and boff one of my groupies. I think of it as fucking for Jeeeesus.

Send money.

-- (The_Very_Reverend_Jesse_Jackson@PUSH.harder), January 28, 2001.


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