{"id":22117,"date":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22117\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:42:08","slug":"cops-arrest-man-suspected-in-a-wave-of-attacks-on-asians-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22117\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops arrest man suspected in a wave of attacks on Asians in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police were questioning a man Wednesday amid a wave of attacks on Asians in Manhattan, police sources said.<\/p>\n

A 72-year-old Asian man was punched in the face in an unprovoked attack around 9:35 a.m. outside Pace High School near Hester and Eldridge Sts.<\/a> on the Lower East Side, the sources said. His attacker ran off following the incident. EMS transported the elderly victim to New York Downtown Hospital<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Cops were investigating if the same attacker was connected to three other incidents \u2014 assaults of two other Asian men who suffered minor injuries, and the\u00a0 pickpocketing of an Asian woman, sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou Asian f\u2014-, you f\u2014-ing Asians,\u201d the attacker allegedly yelled during the disturbing attacks, according to a source.<\/p>\n

The man being questioned allegedly fought with cops, with one officer transported to a local hospital with injuries, the source said. He has an arrest history, the source added.<\/p>\n

The NYPD Hate Crimes task force<\/a> is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were questioning a man Wednesday amid a wave of attacks on Asians in Manhattan, police sources said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-22117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}