Juvenile arrested in Pink Line harassment incident 

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A number of teenagers allegedly smashed a window on a Pink Line prepare final month, threatened to rob passengers, and focused a lady of Asian descent, in response to police.

MBTA Transit Police mentioned a gaggle of juvenile males harassed passengers on a Pink Line prepare final week earlier than smashing one of many prepare’s home windows and taking off. MBTA Transit Police

MBTA Transit Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in reference to an incident final month the place teenagers allegedly smashed a window on a Pink Line prepare and harassed passengers onboard.

Police beforehand shared photos of the aftermath from the Sept. 21 disturbance and mentioned the teenagers threatened to rob passengers and taunted some people primarily based on their ethnicity. 

  • ‘Don’t let her go away’: Video captures racist harassment of Asian lady by teenagers on the Pink Line

Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan advised The Boston Globe that the group focused a lady of Asian descent and tried to imitate a stereotypical accent — an incident that was captured on video. 

Vivian Dang, the goal of the alleged harassment, advised NBC10 Boston that the teenagers yelled racial slurs at her and that one of many boys pushed the wheels of his bicycle into her face.

“Considered one of them screamed, ‘Don’t let her go away,’ and at that time, that’s once I felt the true shock as a result of at that time they may comply with me residence,” Dang advised NBC10. “I used to be afraid to get off [at] my cease, personally, as a result of I used to be afraid they might comply with me.”

The kids received off the prepare at Andrew Station in South Boston, the Globe reported.

Following an investigation, transit police detectives and officers with the company’s prison investigation unit arrested a teen on Monday at Forest Hills Station. He’s charged with unarmed assault with intent to rob and assault for the aim of intimidation, in response to police.

Sullivan didn’t instantly reply to an e mail Tuesday morning asking whether or not the teenager might be charged as a juvenile or an grownup. 

Transit police mentioned their investigation into the incident is ongoing.