An Asian woman is violently beaten in a New York restaurant

New York City police say a deranged man violently hit an Asian woman in the face and knocked her to the ground, in an attack outside a restaurant in the city’s Chinatown.

This was just sent to me from my constituent. This just happened in my district in Chinatown. He has been arrested and our precinct is investigating. pic.twitter.com/sxNfCbrlza

— Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) May 31, 2021

Surveillance cameras captured a video clip, which was published by a member of the Association for the Defense of Minority Rights “Yoh Line New”, on Twitter, according to the American newspaper “New York Post”.

​The 55-year-old victim can be seen walking past the “Kong Sihk Tong” cafe when a man in an orange jacket hit her and knocked her to the ground.

The clip spread widely on social media, and received violent reactions among the tweeters.