Another Asian woman randomly attacked on street in NYC, CCTV shows - old

A man in New York’s Chinatown was recorded on video punching an Asian woman on her face, knocking her to the ground, amid a surge in racial attacks against Asians in America.

The video footage was recorded in a surveillance camera and was posted on Twitter by assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, whose district covers Chinatown. The incident took place on Monday evening at 6.15 local time.

The victim, who is reported to be a 55-year-old woman, can be seen walking in front of a Chinatown cafe. A man in an orange hoodie and denim jacket walks close to her and suddenly punches her unprovoked, after which the woman falls down backwards on the pavement. Several people approach her, however, she can be seen sitting still on her back, with the support of a pillar of one of the eateries, as others look stunned.

One man who approaches the woman to check on her, asks: “Are you okay?” But the woman doesn’t respond or move.

Assemblywoman Niou, while sharing the video, said it was sent to her by one of her constituent. She wrote: "This just happened in my district in Chinatown.”

The woman was brought to the New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in stable condition, the police told local media outlets.

The attacker was identified as 48-year-old Alexander Wright, who has been charged with "assault", "assault as a hate crime" and "criminal possession of controlled substance," Reuters reported, quoting a statement from Detective Annette Shelton.

The incident is one in a series of attacks recently reported against Asians. Last week, an Asian cashier was punched in Manhattan. Earlier this month, two Asian women were stabbed while waiting for a bus in downtown San Francisco. Last month, an older woman was pushed outside a bakery in Queens.

A research released by the Centre for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, found a 169 per cent increase in crimes against Asians in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the first quarter of 2020, an year which marked the "historic" increase in such attacks.

According to the analysis, New York City had the sharpest increase, rising from 13 hate crimes in the first quarter of 2020 to 42 in the same period this year, a 223 per cent jump.

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