Pearl Love, a transgender activist, recorded a woman telling her to “suck my dick” before assaulting her on a subway train in New York.
This is Pearl Love, a trans woman who is working as an intern at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York.
In a Facebook post Monday, Love said she recorded a woman in a crowded New York subway train shouting transphobic and racial slurs at her. The woman then swung at her — it's unclear if she hit her — while other passengers looked on. The video has been viewed more than 40,000 times on Facebook.
Love told BuzzFeed News Tuesday that the incident happened on April 28.
She recounted the incident in her Facebook post:
Between 4:30-4:45 pm. I was on 6 train from Bronx to the LGBT center to work , when I change 6 train to 4 express train in 125 st station an unknown woman sitting across me starter to verbally abuse me. Make lot of shit comments about how much she hate Trans people and want me to suck her dick. She also made racist comments. I ignored her and kept reading my book. When the train got to 86 st she start getting so loud and crazy yelling at me so I started to record her on my phone can- she start getting even louder and start assault me and hit me. As you can see it's definitely a hate crime. She attacked me inside the train . When I retreated she threw all my stuff on the floor and chased me around the train and say she is going to find a stick to hit me. It was a crowded train and everyone heard it but no one helped me. Guys acting like nothing happened. For 5 min. Then when the train stop on 42 st. She got out of train but keep yelling at me, I recorded 4 videos around 3.5 min. Thanks to an older guy who helped me pick my stuff up and put it back my bag, and said sorry to me👍. So now you can understand what's happening in my everyday life. That happens all the time. But it's my first time recording it. 😅
Love told BuzzFeed News that such incidents "happen to me every day" — but this time she recorded the woman because "she was talking for too long."
