Tayari McClellan, one of the three assholes who beat up a guy on the L train while maniacal girls giggled and videotaped the assault, was arrested after someone tipped off police. And surprise, the 19-year-old has a lengthy criminal record. That would probably explain why a MySpace page with the same name and age as him shows a man holding a gun and flashing gang signs.
In case you haven’t seen it, here’s video of three cowardly thugs group-beating a young man on the L train because he told them they shouldn’t spit in the subway car. Read more »
What happened to the baby? That seems to be the question on everyone’s mind after watching the clip we posted earlier of two people battling it out on the L train as a baby stroller belonging to one of the women rolls out of the subway car doors. Luckily, straphanger Carolina Miranda has the answers. Read more »
We’ve watched a fair share of fights on the subway, but this appears to be the first to involve a woman willing to mace another woman and then exchange blows, while her baby stroller rolls out of the open train doors, with the baby still in it, as seen in this recently uploaded YouTube clip. Read more »
Barfing pug owner Chrissie Brodigan rejected a plea deal offering to dismiss charges for being “loud and boisterous” so that she’ll still “be allowed to sue the city for the wrongful arrest.” We’re still wondering when someone will prove the existence of Viane Delgado, the mysterious unfindable Post witness who solely alleged Brodigan lobbed anti-Semitic slurs during her arrest. |Gothamist|
Two charges against subway-riding dog owner Chrissie Brodigan have been dismissed. But she’s still facing a disorderly conduct charge from her arrest, unemployment and disappointment that arresting officer Joel Witriol didn’t show up to be interrogated at her hearing. There’s still no word on the Post’s mystery witness Viane Delgado. |Gothamist|
Chrissie Brodigan, the woman arrested and allegedly groped by NYPD Officer Joel Witriol for taking her sick dog out on the L train, was fired from her job at Plum TV “for ‘equivocating’ in the press” regarding a Post witness’ claim that she lobbed anti-semitic remarks at the officer. Brodigan, whose slur denial is backed by another witness, is accusing the Post of falsifying the quote by Viane Delgado or inventing her entirely because nobody, not even Gothamist, can find her. |Gothamist|
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly defended Officer Joel Witriol, accused of physically abusing Chrissie Brodigan when he arrested her for taking her sick dog out of it’s bag on the L train. Kelly said CCRB is investigating her claim but “[there is] no indication that she was [manhandled],” unless bruises aren’t the result of being too gentle. |NYP|
The Post offers a decidedly different account of the semi-violent L train encounter between Chrissie Brodigan and NYPD officer Joel Witriol over her sick pug. A witness, Viane Delgado, claims Brodigan used anti-Semitic slurs, attempted to walk away and told Witriol, “You f—ing Jew, you’re not even human.” But Brodigan denies that and another witness to the scuffle says the anti-Semitic remarks “absolutely did not happen.” |Gothamist|
Gothamist talks with Chrissie Brodigan, the woman who was arrested earlier today for taking her sick dog out of it’s carrier on the L train. In addition to misogynistic comments, she says her arresting officer Joel Witriol “punched me in the back (there are bruises), he handcuffed me, and in the scuffle grabbed my breasts and pinched them.” She asks that witnesses file complaints with the 90th precinct because Witriol “shouldn’t be able to do this to women—to anyone.” |Gothamist|
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