Parolee charged with hurling slur at Asian man, shoving him on subway

A lady was charged Thursday with hurling a racial slur at an Asian man on a Manhattan subway — telling him “You individuals introduced the virus right here” after which shoving him, cops stated. 

Tandika Wright, 35, approached the 26-year-old sufferer at 6:15 p.m. Dec. 9 on a southbound F prepare approaching the twenty third Avenue station and snarled, “Hey, are you a c—okay? You individuals introduced the virus right here. You individuals killed my individuals,” authorities stated. 

Then she shoved the sufferer and took off, police stated. 

Wright, who's on parole, was arrested greater than a month after the assault and charged with aggravated harassment primarily based on race or faith, authorities stated.

She was taken into custody at a parole workplace.

Cops say Wright was beforehand arrested on Dec. 11, 2014, and charged with second-degree homicide, however she was in the end convicted of tried manslaughter within the first diploma and served jail time from 2015 to 2019, when she was launched on parole, state data present. 

Her parole is ready to run out in March 2025, in keeping with the data. 

Additional info on that case was not instantly accessible. 

Wright was charged with aggravated harassment based on race or religion.
Tandika Wright was charged with aggravated harassment primarily based on race or faith.
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Wright was additionally jailed from 2011 to 2013 on a fourth-degree arson cost, the data present. 

She has about 35 prior arrests, police stated. 

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