MTA subway vandalized with 'graphic' images of lynching

Utica Avenue train station
Utica Avenue train station Photo credit Google Street View

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Explicit images showing lynching were found by MTA cleaners on a 4 train in Brooklyn Tuesday, the New York Post reported.

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An internal MTA report said the photocopied flyers, found plastered inside a 4 train at the Utica Avenue station in Crown Heights just after 12:30 p.m., depicted “graphic executions (lynching).”

Sources told The Post, who also reviewed the report, that the posters were reported to a subway worker by a straphanger. The MTA workers then contacted police.

Responding officers arrived, took down and confiscated the images.

As of Tuesday, a suspect was not in custody for the vandalism.

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