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The
New York Police Department's hate crimes department said in a
tweet that the woman was approached in a street in Midtown
Manhattan shortly before noon on Monday "by an unidentified male
who punched and kicked her about the body."
Videos posted on social media showed the attacker kicking the
woman in the stomach, knocking her to the ground and stamping on
her at least three times before walking away without anyone
trying to protect her. One man shut the door of a nearby
building without attending the victim, the footage showed.
New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said last week
that targeting anyone "because of the color of their skin, the
religion they worship, their sexual preference or anything else"
would not be tolerated.
New York City launched plans last week to deploy an all-Asian
undercover police team to combat a rise in hate crimes against
Asians, which included shooting attacks at Atlanta-area spas
this month in which six Asian women were killed..
Hate crimes against Asian Americans rose by 149% in 2020 in 16
major cities compared with 2019, according to the Center for the
Study of Hate and Extremism.
(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru, Editing by Timothy
Heritage)
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