New York City police are searching for an unidentified young woman who was recorded last week physically assaulting an Asian woman and harassing her family, as well as a bystander who videotaped the confrontation.
A video recorded by Joanna Lin of New York, the bystander, and uploaded to social media this past weekend shows the young woman, along with two other unidentified females, berating another woman and her family on an F train in Manhattan last Thursday, lunging at them as well as the passengers who attempted to diffuse the situation. One of the young women pulled the victim by her hair and made an “anti-ethnic remark,” according to a statement by the NYPD. Although three people appear in the video, police have said they are looking for only one suspect.
The NYPD has said the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. The now-viral video that was posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has prompted anger and fear across the Asian American community.
The victim, who’s come forward as Sue Young, a 51-year-old tourist from Nevada, said she and her family were seated in a relatively empty car before she heard loud laughter that appeared to be directed at them.
“When I looked up from my phone, I looked at them. And that’s when they started pointing and laughing even louder at us,” Young told NBC News. “I started laughing, doing exactly what they were doing. And then their demeanor changed and it became angry.”
Young said that the three young women began cursing, at one point saying things like “go back to where you came from.”
Young added that at another point, one of them came “nose to nose” and got in a “tussle” with her on the subway bench, pulling her hair.
When bystanders tried to interfere, the group responded angrily, Young said. Lin, who watched the altercation escalate, said she instinctively began filming to ensure that “if anything happened, there would be evidence.”
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