A 54-year-old Manhattan man has pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime for shoving and hurling homophobic slurs at a woman as she road a subway last year, the Queens district attorney’s office said Thursday.
Allasheed Allah will be sentenced to up to three years in prison in November. According to the charges, it was during the evening rush on Nov. 20, 2018 that Allah started to argue with a 20-year-old woman on a Manhattan-bound E train at the Forest Hills station in Queens.
The woman had been with a friend who kissed her on the cheek. Allah, seeing the smooch, yelling out, “Kiss her again, you …” and incorporated profanity. He followed the pair when they got off the train, then walked behind the victim and hit her once in the head and chest, shoving her into a nearby pole.
