Alleged bigot busted after spewing anti-Asian threats at undercover NYPD cop - UPDATE: Suspect released without bail

Joe Marino and Craig McCarthy
New York Post
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:07 UTC

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An alleged anti-Asian bigot picked the wrong "victim" to spew hate speech at in Midtown Friday -- an undercover NYPD cop.

An alleged anti-Asian bigot picked the wrong "victim" to spew hate speech at in Midtown Friday — an undercover NYPD cop.

The cop was patrolling at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue at around 4:30 p.m. when Juvian Rodriguez, 35, allegedly approached, The Post has learned.

Not knowing he was dealing with one of New York's finest, Rodriguez began snarling, "Go back to China before you end up in a graveyard!"

"I'm gonna slap the holy piss out of you and stab you in the face," Rodriguez allegedly continued.

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Juvian Rodriguez, 35 arrested for hate speech

The undercover promptly alerted a precinct cop, who busted Rodriquez, an ex-con who according to sources has two dozen arrests on his rap sheet, including for narcotics and assault.

His last words to the undercover — before the cuffs went on — allegedly were, "I don't give a f- if I go to jail."

"He got his wish," one law enforcement source quipped to The Post Friday night. "We're like the 'Make A Wish Foundation' for this scumbag."

He was no more friendly as he was perp-walked out of the Midtown South precinct on Friday night, shouting "Your mother!" to a reporter who'd asked, "Why'd you do it?"

The NYPD redeployed its plainclothes cops last month to help deal with the surging anti-Asian crimes in the Big Apple.

Not knowing he was dealing with one of New York's finest, Rodriguez snarled, "Go back to China before you end up in a graveyard!"

Last month alone, police recorded at least 33 hate crimes against the Asian community, a troubling trend that has seen an uptick since the pandemic coronavirus swept through the country.

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UPDATE 18/04/2021: The New York Post reports:

The man charged with trying to shove an Asian undercover cop onto Queens subway tracks was cut loose without bail Sunday — as the judge claimed, "My hands are tied."

Suspect Ricardo Hernandez, 32 — who faces three hate-crime charges in the attack on the unnamed cop on a Long Island City train platform around 5:30 p.m. Saturday — has at least 12 prior arrests under his belt.

At Hernandez's arraignment over the attempted push onto the tracks, Queens Supreme Court Justice Louis Nock said the state's bail-reform measures barred him from holding Hernandez in jail.

"My hands are tied because under the new bail rules, I have absolutely no authority or power to set bail on this defendant for this alleged offense," the judge said.

Ricardo Hernandez at Queens Court on Sunday.Ellis Kaplan

Under the new measures passed last year, attacks that cause no injury are exempt from bail in New York.

The judge also agreed with Hernandez's lawyer to dismiss a warrant against the suspect involving a previous open-container summons. The suspect had had a can of Coors Light beer.

A police source said Hernandez was previously arrested for possession of a controlled substance in 2019 and turnstile jumping in 2016 and 2017 and has nine other sealed arrests on his record.

Meanwhile, his alleged cop assault came after another previous attack this month on an Asian undercover officer — in which the suspect also was almost immediately freed.