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video of a young woman thrown onto the subway tracks in Center
City Philadelphia is absolutely shocking to watch.  SEPTA
cameras captured the violent attack, and as a result of those
cameras, police quickly nabbed their suspect.  He's behind bars
on $2 million bail.  The assault happened Tuesday afternoon.
Forty-eight hours later, police arrested their suspect.  Just a
few years ago, it would not have happened so quickly, if at
all.  But that's the power of a camera.  Mike Gritsko, a SEPTA
detective, agrees, "It was shocking, it was horrifying."  The
23-year-old victim had loaned a stranger a cigarette lighter.
Moments later, she's dragged off the SEPTA subway platform at
the Chinatown station and thrown onto the tracks.  "I been here
20 years, and I haven't seen anything this horrific, where a
young woman is just sitting t