The troubled lady accused of shoving two unsuspecting vacationers onto Manhattan prepare tracks burst into an incoherent rant in court docket Thursday — as prosecutors stated the chilling assault might have “simply” turned deadly.
Ebony Butts seemed to be carrying the identical floral hospital robe she was arrested in early Monday morning as she pleaded her innocence in connection to the unprovoked assault.
“I didn’t push anyone, a bit of boy pushed me onto one thing,” the dazed lady rambled when requested by The Submit in regards to the alleged incident — a harmful assault they think Butts could have carried out earlier than.
Prosecutors stated Butts shoved a girl onto the Delancey Road/Essex Road station prepare mattress simply after 2:15 p.m. earlier than setting her sights on the second sufferer, who rushed to assist her buddy again onto the platform.
Thankfully, bystanders rushed to avoid wasting the 2 scraped-up Mexican vacationers — and cease Butts from escaping — earlier than the F prepare rolled into the station.
“Had the prepare been coming sooner and with out the assistance from a rider, it could be a graver case,” Abel McDonnell instructed the court docket.
“That is each New Yorker’s worst nightmare and will’ve simply been a double murder.”
Butts, 42, proclaimed her innocence in a number of profanity-laden outbursts — which included, “What the f–okay you fats f–okay” to nobody particularly — however formally filed a not responsible plea.
McDonnell additionally revealed that Butts is being investigated because the attainable suspect in one other subway-shoving incident that occurred in Brooklyn, the small print of which weren’t instantly accessible.
The accused shover has at the least 9 prior arrests courting again to 1999, the latest of which was one other unprovoked assault the place she punched a random 38-year-old lady within the face in Brooklyn in 2016.
Sources beforehand instructed The Submit that Butts, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital for an analysis after the shoving, is taken into account an emotionally disturbed particular person.
Due to her violent historical past, Decide Michelle Weber granted the prosecution’s request that Butts be remanded with out bail.
As she was escorted out of the courtroom, Butts yelled: “Don’t take footage of me, I didn’t do nothing unsuitable!”
She faces two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault.
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