NEW YORK — An elderly Asian American woman was attacked by a man Monday afternoon who repeatedly kicked her in front of witnesses who seemingly stood by, according to surveillance footage released by the New York City Police Department.
The 65-year-old woman was walking along 43rd street when a man came up to her and kicked her in the stomach, knocking her to the ground, the NYPD said.
The man then stomps on the woman’s face several times while hurling anti-Asian statements at her, police said. He later casually walks away, the footage shows.
The woman was hospitalized with serious injuries.
According to video footage, a man inside a building lobby seemingly stopped what he’s doing to watch the assault and later two more men wearing blazers walked into the frame and one of them closed the door as the woman was on the ground.
According to real estate website Street Easy, Brodsky Organization is the property developer and manager of the building where the incident took place.
On Brodsky’s Instagram account, the group said they were aware of the incident and the staff who witnessed the account were suspended pending an investigation. The organization also said they were working to identify a third-party delivery vendor who was also present during the assault.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident and has asked anyone with information to contact the department.
NYPD says there have been 33 hate crimes with an Asian victim so far this year, news outlets reported.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea previously said the agency would increase their outreach and patrols in predominantly Asian communities amid the spike of anti-Asian hate crimes.
In a warning to would-be attackers, Shea said: “The next person you target, whether it’s through speech, menacing activity or anything else, walking along a sidewalk or on a train platform, may be a plainclothes New York City police officer. So think twice.”
According to a report from Stop AAPI Hate over 3,795 incidents were reported to the organization from March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021. The organization said that number is “only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that actually occur.”
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are my eyes deceiving me? But the attacker does not appear to be a white person
Can you imagine the outrage from the black community and the “media” if it were an Asian man attacking an elderly black woman!! Of course, since there is no money in it for Sharpton or, in my opinion, other parasites of the taxpayers, nothing will be said about this HATE CRIME!! Why the country continues to look the other way when blacks commit crimes, is a mystery to me!!
YES i can.. BUT like always, black perp – silence. Black victim – rant and rave….
Yeah, it’s a white guy in black face. May even be one of the bin Biden’s sons or nephews.
“….But the attacker does not appear to be a white person”
The contrast on your screen is obviously out of whack! A racist act…he has to be Caucasian.
He may be completely unaware of the fact or in denial and identifying as white trailer trash. But you can tell by his upright posture and the way he struts that he is better than his victim.
I am sorry, but he must be. After all only white supremacists commit hate crimes (what ever that is).
Well, only if you buy into the Bull, the media shoves.
Blacks who drove out all legitimate stores and businesses from their neighborhoods with violent crime have been conditioned by “community organizers:” to resent those who DO succeed in these (excrement) holes. Enter the Asian community that worked hard as a family, sacrificed and were successful in establishing roots in a community with small businesses. The victim du jour of the left now is represented by an ethnic group that was persecuted by the democrat presidency of FDR, and liberal colleges who now limit Asian participation in advanced courses because their intellect and work ethic seems to out other students not as qualified. Just another accomplishment of the left, who has been instrumental in the division of the nation.
I think that in this scenario “legitimate stores and businesses” are the same as racist gentrification schemes.
WHICH is why i can never understand WHY any successful business, EVER BOTHERS BUILDING IN black neighborhoods…
This guy is a good candidate for a George Floyd neck brace fitting, or maybe a giant chinese finger trap with his head in one end and Al Sharpton’s in the other.
Another example of “white supremacy” in action. Very clear from just looking at the photo of the suspect. Maybe the picture should have been printed in black and white to make it racially equal
MAYBE asians need to just start CARRYING CONSEALED!!!
This was actually put in print / in the press, a man of color assaulting an Asian Woman?????? What a shock, the liberal press actually showing a man of color assaulting someone. Like Tucker said, people stand by and do nothing when an innocent woman is being assaulted. Many people are callous and have no feelings for human life. Less than animals. It is like the Uber Driver, whose car was carjacked. The black teen girls who carjacked the Uber driver, then crashed the car, with the car crushing the Uber driver and no one attempted to help the Uber driver. One of the teen girls who stole the car, stated after the crash, that her phone was in the car, after killing the Uber driver. They should put the parent of these lowlife girls in the same jail cell as their criminal daughters. Notice I said parent, not parents!!!!!!
Parents? Isn’t the proper nomenclature “sire and dam” ? Parenting is a lifelong activity.
Before Obama was elected no black would dare openly attack a person of another race. His own race of course was still open season.
For years, i’ve been saying WE NEED TO START charging those cowards who just STAND AROUND and do nothing to help, as ACCESSORIES… MAYBE then they’d stop being so damn cowardly.
How is this newsworthy ? The attacker is not White, nor is there any connection to Trump.
He’s not even a White-Hispanic !!
IT is strange how the main news agency MENTIONING THIS< is the CANADIAN press..
He needs a lead pill administered…he needs to be off the street.
Much as I prefer our inch system, there is a metric solution to this situation. OBTW, Does anyone else see a resemblance to OJ Simson?
They are looking for this BLM victim. They need him for the Biden cabinet for the position of . . .oh hell .. invent one.
He has been arrested. But his name and booking photo has not been released. If it had been a white man ,you know his name and picture would be front page news.
From what was said on Outnumbered this afternoon, he was ON parole when he SHOULD have been in jail!
IMO ITS high bloody time we started charging these numpties, who SIT ON THESE parole boards, as accomplices to EACH AND EVERY CRIME, anyone they let loose commits…