Asian man attacked, repeatedly punched as he entered subway station
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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An Asian man was attacked as he entered a subway station on the Lower East Side.
NEW YORK - A man entering a subway station on the Lower East Side was attacked and knocked unconscious in what appears to be another hate crime targeting Asian people in New York City.
The 56-year-old victim was entering the F train station at East Broadway and Rutgers Street on Tuesday at about 8:50 p.m. when he was punched in the face and repeatedly as he lay on the ground, said police.
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A 56-year-old man was knocked unconscious outside a Manhattan subway station on Tuesday night, and the police are investigating the seemingly unprovoked attack as a hate crime.
The incident occurred just before 9 p.m., when victim Teoh Ming Soon, who is Asian, was walking towards the F train station at East Broadway and Rutgers Street in Chinatown. According to the NYPD, an assailant attacked him by punching him in the face, rendering him unconscious.
The suspect fled the scene and EMS treated the victim for a laceration to the lip, black eye, and swelling to the head.
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It’s the latest in a string of such incidents.
Surveillance video shows the attacker, with a bandana covering his face, waiting for a man to approach, then without warning, he turns violent.
He hits the man repeatedly, knocking him to the ground and continuously punching him in the face.
The victim was 56-year-old Ming Teoh, of Brooklyn.
“He hit me. I was like, ‘What happened?’ The second time he hit me, I don’t know why. Then I fell down,” Teoh told CBS2’s Nick Caloway.
Teoh says he was walking into the East Broadway and Rutgers Street subway station on the Lower East Side late Tuesday night when the man suddenly attacked without saying a word.
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