The cover photo to Tuesday’s New York Post– showing the eerie moment before a man was fatally struck by a train– has angered readers and left a few sick to their stomachs.
Ki Suk Han, 58, was shoved onto the tracks of an oncoming train by “a deranged man” on a Times Square subway platform Monday afternoon. As the Queens resident scrambled to climb back up, onlookers watched in horror as the downtown Q train quickly approached and struck the helpless man.
The unsettling front page photo is accompanied by a headline that reads, “Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die. DOOMED.”
R. Umar Abbasi, the freelance photographer responsible for the shot, said he attempted to warn the train’s operator by firing off the camera’s flash, multiple times.
“I just stated running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” he recalled. The Post reports that while the train slowed, Han had already been hit. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A stream of disapproving tweets have reached The Post’s official Twitter account, while several media outlets have picked up the photo to question the paper’s ethics.
“The @nypost has to be kidding me with that picture. Couldn’t be more classless. That guy has a family who has to see that. Disgusting,” wrote one commenter.
Another stated, “What’s worse, that the NY Post put an image of a man’s last seconds on its front page, or that we now all remember how awful that rag is?”
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