NYC Photographer & newspaper take heat over photo Of Man Pushed To His Death On Train Tracks

 The photographer who snapped the now-famous image of a man about to be struck by a New York subway train is defending himself against critics who say he should have helped, ascontroversy also rages over the New York Post's decision to publish the picture.

Freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi's image shows 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han desperately clawing at a New York Square subway platform after being shoved onto the tracks by a man with whom he had been arguing.

Seconds after Abbasi captured the shot -- accidentally, in an effort to warn the train conductor, he says -- the train struck Han. He died at a hospital.

Police said Wednesday they had arrested a homeless man, Naeem Davis, 30, on murder charges.

In his Wednesday piece for the Post, Abbasi said people who've criticized him for the shot have no idea what they're talking about.

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"I had no idea what I was shooting. I'm not even sure it was registering with me what was happening. I was just looking at that train coming," Abbasi said in the piece.

He said he was trying to get the train operator to slow down by furiously firing off his camera flash.

Abbasi said he didn't look at the pictures before returning to the office and turning his camera's memory card over to police. The Post published them the next day.

"Doomed" the headline screamed. "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die."

Readers and media critics quickly jumped on the newspaper's decision to use the image. On Twitter, users posted that it was cruel and "snuff porn." Full Story

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