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"My mind was just racing that day. I was mad. I was just angry. I was homeless. I was hungry... He came running up the stairs, and I just got up and pushed him."

In between rants about how she hates "Hindus and Muslims," Menendez said she self-medicates her bipolar disorder with pot: "If I smoked a blunt that day, I wouldn’t have pushed him."

"She television, and she lashed out at the officer," said a NYC Correction Department spokesman. "She pulled the officer’s hair and, in the process, hit her face."

A former boyfriend said that Menendez has long hated Muslims: "She would say, 'I can't stand being around these people...I kept telling her you can't blame every person you see."

A man who was attacked by the suspect in 2003 said that she "started clawing me in the face. I was trying to get away from her... There was blood on my face, my chest and my neck."