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A Black woman was stabbed as she got off the subway in Brooklyn by a man spewing racial slurs according to the victims family and police officials. Ann Marie Washington, 57, was hospitalized Sunday after having surgery for a collapsed lung due to the incident according to NBC 4 New York.

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The incident occurred while Washington, was heading home from work Friday evening when she stepped off the subway at the Church Avenue stop in Brooklyn when she was attacked the news outlet reports.

The man punched Washington in the mouth and stabbed her in the chest while calling her a “black b****.”

The attacker was white and fled on a Q train the police reported. Washington said the man appeared to be in his 30’s, about 5 feet, 3 inches tall and wearing a grey and Black sweatpants Black hooded sweatshirt.

Law enforcement officials did not initially call the attack a hate crime which lead to community members to have a press conference Sunday.

Imani Henry of Equality for Flatbush said, “If this was a white resident, a new gentrifier to this neighborhood, there would be swarms of cops here. But when it is a black person who is attacked by a white racist, there isn’t anything.”

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The NYPD says its Hate Crimes Taskforce will look into the incident but they do not have all the details at the time the crime was reported.

Advocates of Washington said witnesses shot video and there should be surveillance video of the suspect, but police haven’t released any video as of yet.

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