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Asian Man Who Was Stomped and Kicked in Harlem Is in Critical Condition
A Chinese man collecting bottles and cans was kicked in the head, part of a wave of assaults on Asian New Yorkers.

By Michael Gold
April 26, 2021, 11:59 a.m. ET
A 61-year-old Asian man who was assaulted in East Harlem on Friday night while pushing a grocery cart full of bottles and cans remained in critical but stable condition on Monday morning, the police said, another victim in a rising wave of attacks against Asians in New York City.

The man — identified by local media outlets and elected officials as Yao Pan Ma, a Chinese immigrant — was in a coma and on a ventilator after the attack, his wife, Baozhen Chen, told The New York Daily News.

Mr. Ma was at the corner of 125th Street and Third Avenue around 8 p.m. on Friday when a man dressed in black approached and hit him in the back, the police said. He collapsed onto the sidewalk.

A video released by the Police Department showed Mr. Ma lying unmoving as his attacker stomped on his head with white sneakers and kicked him multiple times in the face before running away. A bus driver who was passing by spotted Mr. Ma unconscious on the ground and called paramedics.

The city’s Police Department, which was still searching for Mr. Ma’s attacker on Monday, said that officers were investigating the assault as a possible hate crime.

The brutal assault came as reports of anti-Asian hate crimes have mounted in New York City and across the United States. The video, which spread across social media, brought a new wave of outrage and fear after a number of similar unprovoked attacks in recent months.

Many of the victims have been, like Mr. Ma, middle-aged New Yorkers who were alone on the streets or riding public transit. Last month, a Filipino-American woman walking to church was shoved to the ground and kicked. Footage of the attack went viral, and her assailant was charged with a hate crime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/nyregion/yao-pan-ma-attacked-harlem.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage


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