Asian man is sucker-punched in a broad daylight attack in New York City


An Asian man has been violently attacked in broad daylight in New York as the city continues to struggle with soaring rates of violent crime. 

The ugly incident occurred Monday afternoon on the Upper East Side, with the assailant allegedly targeting the man at random before body slamming him into the glass window of a store. 

The store surveillance camera captured that shocking moment, and shows the attacker subsequently trying to flee before he was stopped by a Good Samaritan. 

The assailant also allegedly sucker-punched the Asian victim, although that incident was not captured on the camera. 

According to ABC 7, the attacker had been yelling at random pedestrian ‘Don’t look at me!’ before he suddenly targeted and followed the Asian man. 

Afterward, the man was seen yelling at the Good Samaritan who stopped him, saying: ‘I’m gonna kill somebody! Get out of my face!’

Police arrived at the scene, but not before the offender had left on foot. As of Tuesday afternoon, he is still at large. 

The NYPD told The New York Post that the attacker did not make any anti-Asian slurs, so the the incident has not been logged as a hate crime. 

However, one eyewitness told ABC that the offender – who is black – was ‘yelling about Chinese, Spanish and white people’. 

Hate crimes are up 28.1 percent this year, while violent crime is also on the rise. 

Just hours after the horrific attack, ‘soft-on-crime’ Mayor Bill de Blasio was seen rubbing elbows with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda in nearby Times Square. 

An Asian man has been violently attacked in broad daylight in New York as the city continues to struggle with soaring rates of violent crime. The ugly incident occurred Monday afternoon on the Upper East Side, with the assailant allegedly targeting the man at random before body slamming him into the glass window of a store

An Asian man has been violently attacked in broad daylight in New York as the city continues to struggle with soaring rates of violent crime. The ugly incident occurred Monday afternoon on the Upper East Side, with the assailant allegedly targeting the man at random before body slamming him into the glass window of a store

Just hours after the horrific attack, 'soft-on-crime' Mayor Bill de Blasio was seen rubbing elbows with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda in nearby Times Square.

Just hours after the horrific attack, ‘soft-on-crime’ Mayor Bill de Blasio was seen rubbing elbows with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda in nearby Times Square.

The Mayor appeared to be in high spirits and he hobnobbed with the A-list celebrity as they opened a new vaccination center for Broadway workers in the area. 

‘We want to gather again, and we want to tell stories in the dark,’  Miranda stated at a press conference to celebrate the center. 

‘We cannot do that if we don’t feel safe and if you don’t feel safe. So the first step in that process is getting our vaccination shots, and the next steps will follow.’ 

De Blasio also took to the  podium to profess his love of Broadway. 

‘Yes, it’s part of our economy. Much more importantly it’s part of our identity,’  he said. 

‘It’s part of who we are, it’s part of our hearts. What it means in this city, the theater, the music, the dance, the film and TV, it is our expression of everything that is New York City. It’s our creativity, it’s our heart and soul. We do something here that does not exist anywhere in the world quite like this.’ 

However, he made no mention of soaring crime rates, or of the increase in attacks on Asians. 

'The theater, the music, the dance, the film and TV, it is our expression of everything that is New York City': de Blasio professed his love for Broadway, but made no mention of the nearby attack

‘The theater, the music, the dance, the film and TV, it is our expression of everything that is New York City’: de Blasio professed his love for Broadway, but made no mention of the nearby attack

'We want to gather again, and we want to tell stories in the dark,' Miranda stated at a press conference to celebrate the vaccination center

‘We want to gather again, and we want to tell stories in the dark,’ Miranda stated at a press conference to celebrate the vaccination center

The Mayor appeared to be in high spirits and he hobnobbed with the A-list celebrity as they opened a new vaccination center for Broadway workers in the area

The Mayor appeared to be in high spirits and he hobnobbed with the A-list celebrity as they opened a new vaccination center for Broadway workers in the area

Lin-Manuel Miranda brought along his father, Luis, to the event

Lin-Manuel Miranda brought along his father, Luis, to the event 

Late last month, a 65-year-old woman of Asian descent was attacked in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood while walking to church. 

She was punched in the stomach and had her head stomped on several times by the assailant, who was later arrested and charged with hate crime. 

The sickening attack was captured on camera, sparking nationwide outrages. 

Meanwhile, there have also been a slew of other disturbing incidents in which Asians have been targeted. 

A man was filmed urinating on an Asian woman on a Queens-bound subway car. 

And last week, another man was arrested  and charged with hate crimes after allegedly hurling anti-Asian abuse and threats at an undercover cop.  

‘Go back to China before you wind up in the f***ing graveyard!’, the offender allegedly told the undercover cop, the New York Post reported. 

‘I’m going to slap the holy piss out of you and stab you in the face,’ he added. 

The data shows crime in the city increasing from recent years

The data shows crime in the city increasing from recent years

Meanwhile, last week, the NYPD released its latest crime data for March, showing that overall crime went up 2.4 per cent, compared with the same time last year, driven by a 36 per cent jump in murders and a 35 per cent increase in auto thefts.

There were 99 shooting incidents in March 2021, compared to 56 a year ago, representing an increase of nearly 77 per cent, even as police drastically stepped up their efforts to arrest suspects on weapons charges. 

There were 492 gun arrests citywide last month, which is an increase of nearly 67 per cent compared to March 2020.   

Mayor De Blasio brags he’s having ‘too much FUN’ after spending the week riding a rollercoaster, on a TV set and a night at the theater – as crime soars 

 New York’s mayor angered residents of his struggling city by having ‘too much fun’ this week, as they fought to rebuild their lives devastated by the COVID pandemic and rattled by rising crime.

Bill de Blasio’s spokesman, Bill Neidhardt, tweeted a series of photos on Friday showing the mayor’s excursions.

On Tuesday he was at the relaunch of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where ice skaters were dancing for the first spectacular of the newly-opened facility.

Bill de Blasio was at Coney Island on Friday at the end of a week of 'too much fun'. He's seen in the first position in the coaster - right at the front

Bill de Blasio was at Coney Island on Friday at the end of a week of ‘too much fun’. He’s seen in the first position in the coaster – right at the front

On Wednesday, he was at the Lincoln Center for their reopening, and on Thursday he visited the set of TV series Nora From Queens, taking selfies with Awkwafina.

Friday saw the mayor, who after two terms cannot run for re-election in November, enjoying the rides at the newly-opened Coney Island theme park. 

‘@NYCMayor is having too much fun this week,’ tweeted Neiderhardt.

Criticism of his ‘fun week’ was swift to arrive.

‘So glad he is,’ said one Twitter user. 

Emergency Medical Technicians help an elderly homeless man off the street on Monday

Emergency Medical Technicians help an elderly homeless man off the street on Monday

NYPD are seen in February on the hunt for a subway stabber, who killed two homeless people

NYPD are seen in February on the hunt for a subway stabber, who killed two homeless people

‘While crime is off the charts !! Tourist being shot walking to their motel in Times Square ! Gangs beating up people in the streets !!! So I’am Glad he’s having FUN !!! While the rest of the CITY LIVES IN FEAR !!!’

Another added: ‘What about getting our kids in school 5 days a week???’

The chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party, Andrea Catsimatidis, slammed de Blasio for riding the coaster and having fun while the city experiences a crime wave. 

And an activist who is the head of the Guardian Angels volunteer crime-prevention group who also is running for mayor in New York, Curtis Sliwa, said it was the de Blasio administration that was the roller coaster ride.

Responding to the photo of de Blasio on the rollercoaster at Coney Island, one Twitter user replied: ‘Nice photo op… now can you do something about the rising crime in the city??? I’m afraid to go to Coney Island, not because of Covid but because of all those loose criminals on the street…’

New York’s crime statistics, released by the NYPD, show crime on the rise.  

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