Suspect taken into custody for ‘hate’ attacks on white people in NYC



A homeless man is facing multiple counts of felony hate-crime assault in as many as seven random attacks on pedestrians in lower Manhattan, officials said Saturday.

Todd Lyons, 33, apparently didn’t care if his victims were young or old, male or female — so long as they were white, sources alleged to The Post.

He used his fists, or random found objects — including a brick and wood from a broken chair — to strike his victims, sometimes knocking them to the ground and leaving them bloody, police said.

“Get off the street, honky, you *f–king honky, you don’t belong here,” Lyons, who is black, allegedly screamed at a 58-year-old man he punched in the face in Chelsea two weeks ago, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/24/suspec...people-in-nyc/