MTA Officer Crespo Won't Be Charged With Hate Crimes

Melendez (AP).

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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