NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A Queens man was charged with hate crimes after he allegedly threatened and shoved an Asian undercover NYPD officer at a Queens subway station on Saturday evening.
Ricardo Hernandez, 32, shoved the undercover officer on an N-line platform at the 39th Avenue station in Long Island City around 5:30 p.m., according to police.
"That's why you people are getting beat up. I got nothing to lose," Hernandez allegedly told the officer, according to the New York Post.
"I will f*** you up," he also allegedly told the cop.
Hernandez was arrested and charged with harassment as a hate crime, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and menacing as a hate crime.
The Queens District Attorney's Office said he was released Sunday without having to post any bail.
Earlier this month, a Manhattan man was arrested on hate crime charges after he allegedly threatened to stab an undercover NYPD officer and told him to "go back to China."
Juvian Rodriguez, 35, was charged with harassment and menacing as hate crimes in that case.
