"They just walked up to me. They were strangers and just walked up to me. They just said, 'You're beautiful, can I kiss you?' I said, 'No'. He said, 'If you were my slave, I could kiss you,' and that's how it started."
"I want to f- you right up your n-- a-, I want to f- a slave. You're my slave. You're my slave."
"At one point, one of the provocateurs asked to kiss the victim's pair of boots. Instead, she said, he knelt down and set one of her boots on fire with a hand-held blowtorch. The hair on the boots were singed but the flames quickly petered out."
A 54-year-old Black social worker was assaulted on a Manhattan street by two men wearing MAGA apparel on February 19. The encounter began with unwanted sexual advances and racist remarks, escalating to verbal abuse and property destruction. One assailant used a hand-held blowtorch to burn her $89 boots. Michael Santiago, 31, and Michael James, 33, were arrested nearly a week later and charged with multiple hate crimes including attempted assault, criminal mischief, menacing, aggravated harassment, arson, and criminal tampering. Both suspects reside in the same Upper East Side apartment building. The victim reported feeling violated and traumatized by the incident.
Read at New York Daily News
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