A 61-year-old Chinese-American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, New York, police said.
The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head shortly after 8pm on Friday last week.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital in a 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 New York Police 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 across the US.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the attack “outrageous” on Twitter.
“Make no mistake, we will find the perpetrator and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” De Blasio wrote on Saturday.
The attack recalled last month’s assault near Times Square in which a woman who immigrated from the Philippines was knocked to the ground and stomped on by an attacker who shouted anti-Asian slurs.
A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested in that attack.
The US Senate last week passed legislation aimed at fighting the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The measure would expedite the review of hate crimes at the US Department of Justice and provide support for local law enforcement in response to thousands of reported violent incidents in the past year.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said that he would direct the state hate crimes task force to offer assistance in investigating Friday’s attack.
“I’m sickened to learn of yet another bigoted act of violence against an Asian American man,” the governor said in a statement. “This is not who we are as New Yorkers, and we will not let these cowardly acts of hate against members of our New York family intimidate us.”
Police did not release the victim’s name, but multiple news outlets identified him as Ma Yaopan, a former restaurant worker who lost his job because of the COVID-19 pandemic and was collecting cans to make ends meet.
His wife, Chen Baozhen, 57, pleaded for police to find her husband’s attacker in an interview with the New York Post.
“Please capture him as soon as possible and make him pay,” Chen said in Mandarin through a translator.
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