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Police on Thursday arrested Christopher Philippeaux, who was conditionally released by parole in July 2021 after serving more than two years in prison, and charged him with a hate crime after the incident on the bus near 118th Street and Liberty Avenue in Queens on October 15, CBS News reported.
According to police, Philippeaux approached the 19-year-old Sikh boy on the New York City MTA bus and said, “We don’t wear that in this country,” referring to his turban.