Last month, as gunshots and smoke filled the air on an N train headed from Brooklyn to Manhattan, a 37-year-old mother who has asked to be identified only by her last name, Flores, started filming the situation on her phone.
Then she did something extraordinarily brave: she turned her phone and its footage over to police — despite the fact that she is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who has been subject to a deportation order for more than two decades.
