Authorities say they apprehended a guy after footage showed him striking a 55-year-old Asian Woman in the face in New York City’s Chinatown on Monday.
According to a police and security video uploaded on Twitter by New York State Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, the woman was walking along Bayard Street soon after 6 p.m. ET when a guy going in the other way randomly hit her in the face, knocking her to the ground.
As the man walks away, others on the street approach the woman, who seems comatose on the ground.
Wright was transferred to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric examination after being apprehended a block away from the crime.
This was the most recent anti-Asian hate crime in the United States this year.
Hate crimes increased by 169 percent in the first quarter of 2021 when compared to the same period in 2020, according to a study issued by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.