[NYDAILYNEWS] A woman on her way to massive Manhattan protests against anti-Asian violence became the victim of a hate crime herself when she was punched and bloodied by a man who stomped her sign calling for peace, police said Monday.
The woman was on Astor Place in the East Village when a stranger asked for her sign, which read "Hate Has No Peace," about 11:35 a.m. Sunday, police said. Protesters were flooding into rallies in Union Square Park and Columbus Park in Chinatown, as shown on the front page of Monday’s Daily News.
The man tried to stuff the sign in a garbage can then threw it on the ground and stomped on it.
When the woman asked why he was doing that he punched her twice in the face, police said.
As he ran off, she gave chase but sprained her ankle. Still, she was able to record cellphone video showing his bearded face before he covered it with a mask.
The suspect can be seen turning back and saying something before he escaped into the Astor Place subway station.
Medics took the 39-year-old victim, who is Asian, to Lenox Health Greenwich Village for a cut lip.
The attack, under investigation by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force, is the latest in a string of assaults against Asian people across the city.
The suspect is about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. He was wearing a red reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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Bulls hoodie and a black baseball cap and carrying a green backpack.
| The victim is from China; she came to America for her accounting degree, then worked in Hong Kong before returning to the US in 2012. Her husband is currently somewhere in China, suggesting a strong connection. The assailant appears to be Black. Twenty-two attacks on Asians have thus far been reported to police in New York City in 2021, most of which were not done by white supremacists, so there’s that. |
'I came here to f--- up Asians'
 [NYDAILYNEWS] A 54-year-old woman was slammed in the face with a metal pipe by a stranger on a Lower East Side street who yelled, "I came here to f--- up Asians," police sources said Monday.The victim, who is Asian, was walking near Grand St. and Ludlow St. near Chinatown when the bigot screamed the crazed threat and bashed her with the pipe about 4:45 p.m. Sunday.
The blow left a cut across her nose. She was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable, pH balanced condition.
Cops arrested suspect Elias Guerrero, 38, a short time later not far from the scene. He was charged with assault as a hate crime, resisting arrest, harassment, and weapon possession.
Guerrero has four prior arrests, all from 2017, on low level charges, including turnstile jumping and resisting arrest.
The attack took place blocks from a separate attack involving another Asian woman who was slugged at Astor Place and Cooper Square about 11:35 a.m., cops said.
The attacker punched the woman twice in the face after stomping on a sign she was carrying that said "Hate has no peace." That victim was on her way to Sunday’s massive Manhattan march against anti-Asian violence.
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