Shocking moment man sucker punches Asian woman in the face in NYC's Chinatown amid skyrocketing violent crime
Shocking security footage shows the moment a man punches an Asian woman so hard in the face that she is knocked to the ground in a random attack in New York City's Chinatown on Monday afternoon.
The daytime assault took place around 6.15pm in front of a restaurant, and was entirely unprovoked, police say.
Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, whose district encompasses Chinatown, shared surveillance video of the attack on Twitter.
The footage shows the 55-year-old victim walking down the sidewalk when a man in an orange hoodie and denim vest suddenly strikes her in the face.
The woman's hat is seen flying off her head, and she crumples to the pavement.
A seemingly crazed man punched a 55-year-old Asian woman in the face in Chinatown Monday afternoon in what police described as an 'unprovoked' attack
The woman's hat is seen flying off her head, and she crumples to the pavement
The woman sat motionless after she was hit. It came as attacks against Asians and Asian-Americans has surged in the city recently
A handful of pedestrians come to her side while diners can be seen staring in silence.
One can be heard asking if the victim was alright, but she remained motionless.
Police said the woman was taken New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and is in stable condition.
The attacker was taken Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, and so far no charges have been filed.
The violent incident came as attacks against Asians and Asian-Americans have been surging in the city, with at least 86 anti-Asian hate crimes being reported to authorities this year, according to the NYPD.
There were only 19 such reports the same time last year.
In a separate attack, surveillance footage captured a man sucker-punching an elderly Asian woman on Wednesday.
NYPD working to identify the man who punched the 75-year-old Chinese mother in the face around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near 57th Avenue and 97th Place in Queens
The footage shows the man walking down the sidewalk before punching the woman, who falls to the ground as he walks away
NYPD reported that it was working to identify the man who punched the 75-year-old Wing Wa Chin mother in the face around 2:30 p.m. that day near 57th Avenue and 97th Place in Queens.
The footage shows the man walking down the sidewalk before punching the woman, who falls to the ground as he walks away. The vicious and unprovoked attack left the elderly woman with a broken nose, fractured eye socket and two black eyes.
'She was just coming back from the supermarket and she had her shopping cart,' the victim's son, who asked not to be identified in fear of retaliation, told CBS2.
'It's kinda obvious. He punched her because she was an Asian lady,' he added.
The victim, who was treated for her injuries at a nearby hospital, has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, her son told the news outlet. She will need further surgery to help heal her wounds.
'She said people around were nice enough to help her call the ambulance. They came to pick her up and stuff like that, so I'm glad people around here at least stick up for each other,' the victim's son told CBS2.
A rally was held in Chinatown hours after the attack in solidarity against the ongoing and increasing assaults and hate crimes towards Asians, with actor and activist Danny Glover being in attendance.
'We had to stand for justice,' Glover said at the rally. 'We, at this particular moment, have to stand on the right side of history.'
Additionally, on May 15 an Asian man was repeatedly punched and had the tip of his finger bitten off by an attacker who told him to 'go back to your country.'
A man attacked a 48-year-old Asian man, and bit his finger off on May 15. attacker was captured on security footage walking away from the crime scene with a red sweatshirt in hand, donning black sneakers and was shirtless
The 48-year-old Asian man was brutally attacked by a shirtless perpetrator that morning in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
The victim is a driver from Long Island who was in the area to pick up a customer, his family told ABC 7 News.
The assailant allegedly approached the 48-year-old and randomly punched him in the face 'without provocation,' NYPD said in a statement.
He then began raining punches on him before telling him 'go back to your country.'
The man then bit the victim on his left hand, severing his middle finger, before fleeing the scene.
The attacker, described by police as dark-skinned and in his 40s, was captured on security footage walking away from the crime scene shirtless, with a red sweatshirt in hand and wearing black sneakers.
The victim was transported to a nearby hospital where he was treated for injuries to his face, arm and hand.
His family says they are sick and tired of the rise in anti-Asian attacks and that these crimes have made them more aware of their surroundings, ABC 7 News reported.
The incident occurred in the same neighborhood a 31-year-old Asian woman was attacked with a hammer by a woman who ordered her to take her mask off earlier this month.
The woman suffered a cut to her head and was hospitalized and the attack was investigated by the NYPD as a potential hate crime.
The incident also took place just two blocks from where a 65-year-old Asian woman was kicked and stomped by a 38-year-old man while she was on her way to church in late March.
A report from the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, found that anti‐Asian hate crimes surged 149 per cent while overall hate crime dropped 7 per cent in 2020.
The report indicated that the rise in anti-Asian crimes was attributed to 'a rise in COVID cases and negative stereotyping of Asians relating to the pandemic.'
In light of all the recent citywide anti-Asian as well as anti-Semitic attacks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced increased funding for anti-hate initiatives.
'We need to redouble our efforts to fight hate, and we've gotta work with outstanding community leaders and organizations to reach deep into the grassroots,' he said.
De Blasio announced the creation of a new initiative called Partners Against The Hate, or P.A.T.H. Forward on Thursday, while committing $3 million in funding for Asian American and Jewish community groups, CBS reports.
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