Diana Smith, the 45-year-old Black woman who assaulted a Jewish Orthodox woman on the C-train in Manhattan, appeared virtually for her court appearance from the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital, wearing a purple hospital gown.

Smith, who pleaded not guilty to charges of felony assault, harassment and criminal obstruction of breathing as a hate crime, had been known to police before, having had six run-ins with law enforcement over disturbing behavior. Prosecutors requested $30,000 bail, but Smith’s defense attorney requested she be released on her own recognizance because she has no money for bail. The judge ultimately set the bail at $10,000.

The victim, who asked not to be identified, told The New York Post in an interview that she had only been on the train for one stop when Smith boarded and immediately began the confrontation.

“‘You could always see the reflection of a Jew,'” the victim quoted Smith as saying before turning toward the Montreal native and giving her a sinister smile.

“I decided in that moment I really did not want to show fear in the face of that, so I stared at her right back down, and I said, ‘So you see my reflection?'”

“And she said, ‘Yeah, and I smell it on you too,'” the victim said.

At that point, the woman, who now lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, began recording the incident.

The footage begins with Smith shouting inside a subway car full of commuters, “Jews are eating kids!”

She leans toward the victim with a creepy grin and says, “You’re a Jew; I can smell the kids,” as the woman repeatedly says, “Don’t touch me.” 

According to later reports, Smith knocked the 23-year-old nurse to the ground, beat her, choked her and pulled out a fistful of hair. Video footage shows other commuters pushing her back and shouting, “Whoa, whoa, whoa!”

“It’s okay for her to eat kids?” the woman yells. “But I can’t choke her down?”

“I was just assaulted,” the shocked victim says in a trembling voice.

Smith knocked the phone out of her hands at that point.

Subsequent photos show the woman’s red scalp and a missing tuft of hair.

The young woman exited at Canal Street and reported the attack to police. Passengers on the subway pressed the emergency button, alerting officers, who intervened and apprehended Smith.

Smith’s post-assault behavior was equally unhinged. Manhattan ADA Sarah Csanadi said in court Monday that Smith ranted to police, “I am sick of Jewish people eating kids and then playing in my face and acting like I don’t have my own rights on this land.”

“My father is a moor from Jamaica, West Indies, and he owns the land that we are on right now,” she added bizarrely and unhistorically.

In her weirdest and strangest statement yet, she added, “The disgusting part is that we are not eating the kids in our hamburger meat.”

Police have charged the assailant with hate crime assault, hate crime criminal obstruction of breathing and hate crime aggravated harassment. The victim was admitted to the hospital with minor injuries, including a concussion.

“When I had to identify her, a ton of people were like, ‘Oh, we saw what happened, are you OK?'” the victim said in the Post interview, explaining that commuters intervened only when it was too late. “And that was extremely triggering for me because of course I’m not OK. I kept just thinking, I’m not in Nazi Germany.”

“I don’t think New York is protecting Jews. I don’t think Mamdani not going to the Israel Day Parade is helping,” she added. The assault occurred the same day as the Israel Day Parade.