NYC woman who threatened and spat on Jewish children charged with hate crimes

A New York City woman who was caught on video spewing anti-Semitic threats at a group of Jewish children, telling them “Hitler should have killed you all” before spitting on an 8-year-old boy, has been arrested, police said.

The woman, identified by the NYPD as Christina Darling, 21, was arrested and charged on Friday for aggravated harassment and menacing, both as hate crimes. She was also charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child in connection to the incident, which occurred on Jan. 14.

Details of her arrest were published on Twitter by the official NYPD Hate Crime Task Force account.

Video footage released by the NYPD on Tuesday shows the woman standing in front of a group of children as she spat on the child. The woman, who was wearing an orange hoodie with black leggings and Ugg boots fled from the scene after attacking the children, police said.

Police say she threatened the children, stating, “Hitler should have killed you all. I’ll kill you and know where you live.”

Darling was quickly identified after footage of the attack went viral – a petition on Change.org identified her as Christina Darling, a student of St. Francis College, and called for her to be expelled from the college.

“According to Christina's TikTok account (@christinaelizabethx3), where she frequently boasts about smoking marijuana, she posted that she is an Education, English, and Psychology major, as well as an aspiring guidance counselor. Based on her unhinged behavior and defamatory actions, she certainly does not uphold the morals to become a guidance counselor,” the petition reads.

“I urge President Miguel Martinez-Saenz to stand by his promises and denounce this horrifying act of racism, bigotry, and harassment against the Jewish people,” the petition continued. “If appropriate disciplinary action isn’t taken, an egregious precedent will be set.”