Three men brutally attacked a 28-year-old woman in Queens, yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at her — with one of the assailants strangling her until she lost consciousness — in what cops are investigating as a possible hate crime, according to a police source.
The victim and her attackers, who knew each other, got into an argument near Redfern Ave. and Village Lane in Far Rockaway around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when the men started punching the victim, and one brute strangled her until she lost consciousness, the police source said. During the horrific attack, the men reportedly taunted the woman with vicious slurs, shouting: “F—k you, you tranny n—r f—k,” according to the source.
The victim, who lives about two miles away in Arverne, was treated for pain to her ribs and neck at St. John’s Hospital.
The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the confrontation as a “possible bias incident.” It was not immediately clear if the victim was transgender.
The heinous attack comes near the end of Pride Month. Earlier this month, a 99-cent-store worker was charged with hate-crime assault, hate-crime harassment and criminal possession of a weapon after he allegedly slashed a customer across the face with a box-cutter — while calling him a “fa–ot and “c-nt” — after the customer asked for some help.
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