Racist stomps on elderly Asian woman’s face while hurling hateful slurs
A man kicked down and stomped on an elderly Asian woman’s face and upper body while making racial slurs on a New York City sidewalk.
An elderly Asian woman was stomped on the face by a man who hurled racist slurs at her, police say. The unidentified man who attacked the 65-year-old woman on a New York City sidewalk on Monday morning remained at large a day after the attack.
Surveillance footage captured the moment that the man rushed up to a woman walking alone outside a luxury apartment building in Midtown Manhattan and used his right leg to kick her down to the ground.
As the woman tried to sit up, the man used his left foot to stomp on her face and head twice. The man struck the woman’s head with his right foot again before stepping over her, looking back and walking off.
The video tweeted by the New York Police Department on Tuesday also showed a man who appeared to work in the building do nothing but close the front glass door after the suspect fled and the woman lay on the ground. A man who seemed to be delivering packages inside the building stopped and watched the attack but also did not intervene.
Police said the woman sustained serious injuries and was transported to NYU Langone Medical Center.
The Brodsky Organization, which manages the apartment building, faced heavy criticism online over the staff’s failure to aid the woman. The organization responded in a statement early Tuesday that staff who watched the attack ‘have been suspended pending an investigation in conjunction with their union,’ according to The New York Times.
‘The Brodsky Organization condemns all forms of discrimination, racism, xenophobia and violence against the Asian-American community,’ the company stated.
Monday’s attack adds to the spate of racist violence against Asians across the US over the past year. Apparent hate crimes have continued since a series of shootings in Atlanta earlier this month in which six of the eight victims were Asian women.
Police released images of the man in Midtown wearing jeans, a dark shirt and a light-colored long-sleeve jacket and anyone with information is asked to contact the department.
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