Asian woman brutally beaten in suspected hate crime as security guard does nothing to help
By Kenneth Garger and Joe Marino
New York Post
March 29, 2021
A racist attacker brutally beat an Asian woman who was walking to her church in
Midtown on Monday morning — as a security guard in a nearby building
watched and did nothing to help, according to police and footage of the
incident.
The unidentified suspect spewed anti-Asian statements as he punched
and kicked the 65-year-old woman on West 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue
at about 11:40 a.m., according to cops.
“Fuck you, you don’t belong here,” the brute yelled at the woman, according to sources.
Video footage of the assault provided by police shows the suspect
kicking the victim to the ground — then stomping her in the head several
times as she was down on the sidewalk.
The attacker of the elderly Asian woman caught on surveillance footage leaving the scene
Several men from a nearby residential building witnessed the crime, the footage shows, but did not try to help the woman.
One of the men, who was undoing packages, watched the entire incident
unfold, the footage shows. Two other witnesses — who appear to be
building security — walked over to the door as the attack ended, but did
not chase after the suspect.
In fact, one of those men appears to shut the building door as the
attacker takes off and the victim lies helplessly, according to the
video.
The suspect was still being sought early Tuesday morning.
A doorman at the building where the surveillance video was recorded
said on Monday night that he was unaware that the attack had taken
place.
The victim, who suffered a fractured pelvis, was taken to NYU Langone
Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, authorities said.
She declined to comment when reached by The Post Monday night.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating, police said.
The department has recorded a 1,300 percent increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Last year, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force recorded 28 anti-Asian
attacks compared with two incidents in 2019, according to officials.
“This is absolutely vile,” City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said in a Monday night tweet.
“These attacks against Asian-American New Yorkers must end. Hate has
no place here and we must always call it out when we see it.
“My office is reaching out to the precinct and will do anything we can to be of assistance.”
2 comments:
Private security is under no legal or moral obligation to stick their nose into somebody else's business. The attitude is reprehensible and disgusting, but not surprising.
In some states private unarmed security can only witness a crime and report it. A uniformed security guard is useless.
My former agency escorts jewelry sales persons for extra jobs and protective services for families of mighty rich people. All plain clothes duty. Counter Surveillance and Heat Runs are mandatory. One of the jewelry job guys was shot in the leg a few years ago during an attempted robbery. The criminal lost.
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