A white investment banker was arrested for assaulting a New York City subway worker while she was on duty last week.
The New York Police Department charged Jean-Francois Coste, a 53-year-old equity analyst with the Tocqueville Asset Management on Dec. 16 with assault, harassment, and menace after he attacked Tanya McCray, a 56-year-old MTA train operator, The Gothamist reports.
The incident is one of three assaults against MTA workers in the past week. Police say an MTA employee was attacked with a hammer early Tuesday morning at a subway station in Manhattan.
The woman, on Friday, fought back in self-defense during the late-night attack, using everything she had on her person, including a thermos.
The police say shortly after midnight, Coste attempted to push himself inside the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue subway station’s crew room to use the bathroom.
McCray, who was on duty and had been working for 21 years with MTA, told the man he could not…
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