The stabbing of a Train Conductor who then subdued his attacker on a Bronx subway platform April 21 prompted union officials to prod the city to act against what one of them called “an epidemic of assaults on transit workers.”
Conductor Denaul Jenkins, 33, was on the southbound platform of the 4/5 at the 149th Street and Grand Concourse subway station when a verbal exchange with Walter Rivera Jr, 20, escalated into a physical altercation, with Mr. Rivera stabbing him several times in the arms and torso, according to the NYPD.
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