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MTA Officer Crespo Won't Be Charged With Hate Crimes
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Garth Johnston
Published Dec 14, 2010
Modified Dec 14, 2010
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Eddie Crespo, the MTA officer who appeared to be involved in last week's subway attack on an imam, will not be charged after all, a grand jury decided yesterday. His fiance's brother, Albert Melendez, meanwhile will be charged in the case but on a misdemeanor charge, not the felony counts he was facing. So maybe it was just a bump that kicked off the mess and not plain old bigotry?
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