MTA cleaners Tuesday found “descriptive” images showing lynchings on a 4 train in Brooklyn, sources said.
The photocopied leaflets, which “depict graphic executions (lynching)” were found plastered on the train at Utica Avenue Station in Crown Heights around 12:37 p.m., according to an internal MTA report seen by The Post.
Sources said a straphanger reported the placards to a subway worker, who in turn alerted police.
Police responded to the reported vandalism and took down and confiscated the paintings.
A suspect was not in custody as of Tuesday
The crime was the latest in a string of misdeeds in the subway system.
A 23-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in a Brooklyn subway station last week.
On Monday, an 18-year-old girl was repeatedly punched in the face in a random attack at an L subway station in Manhattan.
The NYPD and MTA did not immediately comment on the lynching images.
The vandalism was discovered the same day President Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law — the first anti-lynching law to become law after over 200 attempts over the past hundred years or so. The bill makes lynching a federal crime.
Additional reporting by Tina Moore
https://nypost.com/2022/03/29/graphic-lynching-images-found-on-brooklyn-4-train/ “Graphic” lynch pictures found on Brooklyn 4 train
