NYC police look for black suspect in latest Asian attack
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NEW YORK (April 26, 2021) A 61-year-old Chinese American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said.
The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. He was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said.
Surveillance video released by the police appears to show the attacker stomping on the victim s head. Police have not specified a motive. The department s hate crimes task force is investigating the attack, the latest in a troubling rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in New York and around the country.
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Make Him Pay, Police Seek Attacker Who Repeatedly Kicked Chinese American Man In Head
The unidentified man kicked Yao Pan Ma, a restaurant worker who lost his job because of the pandemic, in the head repeatedly. Photo: New York Police Department
Yao Pan Ma, a 61-year-old Chinese American man, was assaulted on Friday by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, the NYPD said.
The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head shortly after 8 p.m. He was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said.
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His name is Yao Pan Ma and he’s a 61-year-old immigrant who had a job at a restaurant prior to the COVID pandemic. Recently he’s been collecting aluminum cans to try to make a little money for his family. Friday night, Ma was brutally beaten on the sidewalk in what appears to be another anti-Asian hate crime.
Mr. Ma was at the corner of 125th Street and Third Avenue around 8 p.m. on Friday when a man dressed in black approached and hit him in the back, the police said. He collapsed onto the sidewalk.
A video released by the Police Department showed Mr. Ma lying unmoving as his attacker stomped on his head with white sneakers and kicked him multiple times in the face before running away. A bus driver who was passing by spotted Mr. Ma unconscious on the ground and called paramedics…