Two men have been arraigned on charges of assault as a hate crime following an alleged bias attack on a transgender female in Queens Wednesday night.

Investigators say the attack happened on the corner of 116th Avenue and 199th Street in St. Albans.

The victim, 22-year-old Carmella Etienne, tells the Queens District Attorney's office she was hit by rocks and a beer bottle thrown by Nathaniel Mims, 25, of the Bronx and Rasheed Thomas, 22, of Queens.

Etienne (pictured right) also claims the two men shouted anti-gay slurs and threatened to kill her. When she threatened to call the police, the two suspects allegedly said "The police don't care about you, they won't do anything to us."

Both men were arrested at the scene, but one witness says the police may have grabbed the wrong people.

"He stopped right here, started doing his little vogue-ing thing, cause that's what they do. And I guess the guy that is with my friend he didn't like he, you know 'Go outta here with that, you know, no one wants to see that' and he went about his business," said Candy Brown, a friend of one of the suspects. "Somebody else or whatever started throwin rocks or whatever, but they were here. They didn't have anything to do with it."

"Everyone should understand that these cases, whether they involve ancestry, gender, age or sexual orientation, will all be very vigorously prosecuted because of the effect that they have not only on individuals involved, but on the community generally," said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

The victim was treated for a large cut to her leg and later released from the hospital.

Both suspects are being held on $5,000 bail and are due back in court on July 23rd. If convicted, they could face up to 15 years behind bars.