A Brooklyn girl who slugged a Black girl within the face and uttered a racial slur final week has been charged with a hate crime, police mentioned Friday.
Linette Difrancesco, 54, was arrested on April 7 for an assault two days earlier during which she threw a tough object at a 24-year-old girl in Coney Island, hanging her within the shoulder.
At that time, police realized she was the identical girl whose image was launched to the media after a March 30 incident during which she confronted a 50-year-old Black girl at Kings Freeway and Ave.
Difrancesco allegedly struck the lady within the face and hurled a slur at her.
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“Black piece of s—t,” she allegedly mentioned. “That’s what you’re.”
The sufferer, who had simply left work, didn’t want medical consideration.
Difrancesco was charged with assault as a hate crime, menacing and harassment in that assault.
She is being held in each instances with out bail and is present process a psychiatric analysis. She additionally has a pending menacing and harassment case from final July, additionally in Brooklyn.
