Photo Courtesy of NYPD
The three suspects on captured on surveillance footage.
By Michael V. Cusenza
Led by area elected officials, South Queens residents have come to the aid of a borough grandmother who was brutally beaten earlier this month by a trio of women as they rode the Q52 bus along Woodhaven Boulevard near Jamaica Avenue.
Jill LeCroix, 57, who is White, was savagely attacked by three Black women on Saturday, July 9, in a case that is being investigated by the City Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force, according to police and published reports
Forum Photo by Michael V. Cusenza
The attack occurred on the Q52 bus near the intersection of Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue.
“Before they hit me, the girl with the green hair said, ‘You probably like Trump! Don’t you?’” LeCroix recalled to the New York Post. “I said, ‘I love him.’ I didn’t see which one hit me first. The one with the green hair, she was saying she hates white people, the way they talk, hates white skin, the way their skin cracks; saying she was gangsta.”
Area legislators and community leaders rallied around LeCroix on Tuesday in Woodhaven.
Photo Courtesy of Councilwoman Ariola
“Hate has no home in District 32,” Councilwoman Ariola said.
“Hate has no home in District 32,” City Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park) said. “An innocent woman, wanting to travel from Woodhaven to Rockaway was attacked because of the color of her skin. I am confident that the NYPD will bring the cowards who committed this crime to justice.”
Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth) added, “Hate has no place in this city.”
