While writing ‘anti-Asian comments about COVID-19’ on the subway, NYPD hunts down 6 suspects who hit a 32-year-old woman in the face for not wearing a mask.
- Police are searching for six suspects who punched a woman ched૨ year-old and called her ‘anti-Asian remarks about coronavirus’ on a subway train.
- The incident happened on December 17 at 1.45pm
- The group was hit by a train heading west from the station to the station
- They confronted him for not wearing a mask, making ‘anti-Asian’ remarks related to COVID-19 and slapping him in the face.
- Over the weekend, police shared four photos of six suspects who have a reward of 25 500 for their identification.
Police are searching for six suspects who punched an Asian woman several times for not wearing a mask and gave her “anti-Asian statements” about coronavirus on a subway train.
At 1.45pm on Dec. 17, the group – three women and three men – a 32-year-old woman, boarded a train southeast of West 4th Street Station in Manhattan.
According to ABC 7, police said he was accused of not wearing a mask and made anti-Asian statements about the virus.
Their verbal assault became physical and the victim was repeatedly burned in the face before the group fled.
Police are searching for six suspects about a coronavirus on Dec. 17 at New York City’s West 4 St. Subway Station who hit an Asian woman in the face several times for not wearing a smile. View of the two suspects caught on surveillance camera above
The sight of two suspects in the attack above
The victim was left with bruises but refused medical help.
NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.
On Sunday, police shared four surveillance photos of the six suspects, seeking their help in identifying them and offering a reward of up to $ 2,500.
Since the outbreak began, there have been reports of racist attacks against Asian Americans as the first reports from Wuhan, China.
Above December 17, a scene of suspects turning up at a train station
They approached a 32-year-old woman on a train south of West Fourth Street station and went into a verbal attitude that turned out to be physical. The victim suffered bruises after being hit in the face. File image of the West Fourth Street station above
Trump has also repeatedly called COVID-19 a “China virus” and blamed China for the global epidemic.
Earlier this year a video surfaced on social media in which a subway passenger was sprayed with what appeared to be a fabric bottle on an Asian man in the train.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-Tips (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-Pista (74782).
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