{"id":22942,"date":"2025-10-30T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22942\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:10:20","slug":"man-suspected-in-nyc-anti-asian-attack-spree-arrested-for-punching-stranger-onto-subway-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22942\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected in NYC anti-Asian attack spree arrested for punching stranger onto subway tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A suspect with an extensive criminal history cops now believe carried out an anti-Asian hate crime spree<\/a> on the Lower East Side has been arrested for sucker-punching a stranger on a subway platform, sending the victim tumbling onto the tracks, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Clive Porter, 33, stormed up to the 45-year-old victim stepping off a J train at the Bowery subway station<\/a> about 4 p.m. Wednesday and punched him in the face unprovoked, cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsian f\u2014!\u201d Porter screamed as he stormed off and exited the station, the victim told police.<\/p>\n

The victim reeled back from the blow and fell off the platform onto the tracks.<\/p>\n

He managed to get himself back onto the platform and was treated for a swollen eye at the scene. He then patrolled the area with police officers and spotted the suspect nearby on Grand and Forsyth Sts.<\/p>\n

As cops moved in to arrest Porter there he allegedly assaulted one of the officers and spat at another, officials said.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-1 180-pound Porter was taken to Bellevue Hospital<\/a> for a psychological examination. He headbutted a police officer escorting him into the hospital, leaving the cop with a concussion, officials said.<\/p>\n

Cops charged Porter with assault as a hate crime, multiple counts of assault on a police officer, harassment and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n

Cops expect to additionally charge him with punching two other Asian men and an Asian woman and pick-pocketing an Asian woman within blocks of each other on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

During at least one of the assaults, he screamed \u201cYou Asian f\u2014-, you f\u2014-ing Asians!\u201d police sources said.<\/p>\n

Porter has racked up 80 arrests over the last few years. He\u2019s also had 12 run-ins with police where he was described as suffering from an emotional or mental illness, police said. One of those incidents was on Independence Day back in 2018, officials said.<\/p>\n

Investigators believe his anti-Asian spree began 9:35 a.m. Wednesday when a 72-year-old man was punched without warning on Hester St. near Eldridge St. on the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n

The victim fell to the ground face first, suffering a deep cut to his nose, cops said. Medics transported the victim to New York Downtown Hospital<\/a>\u00a0in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Ten minutes later, an elderly man was punched a block away on Canal St, cops said.<\/p>\n

Then on Eldridge St., an elderly woman was pickpocketed, cop said.<\/p>\n

And at some point an Asian woman was struck in the head from behind near Forsyth St. and East Broadway. She fell to the ground with a minor injury.<\/p>\n

The NYPD\u00a0Hate Crimes Task Force<\/a> is investigating the incidents.<\/p>\n

Two weeks earlier, on Oct. 17, cops arrested Porter for another violent spree. He was accused of brandishing a knife and threatening a 40-year-old man after being caught rooting through a garbage can at the Times Square-42nd St. subway station.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you going to do about it?\u201d Porter asked when his victim told him not to go through the trash, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also accused of brandishing a knife and threatening a man on a No. 6 train and punching a man at the 33rd St. No. 6 subway station. All three crimes happened on Oct. 14, officials said.<\/p>\n

He was released after his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court since none of those crimes were bail eligible, officials said.<\/p>\n

His other prior arrests include at least two hate crimes, in which he\u2019s accused of scrawling \u201cDeath to gays\u201d at a train station at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Dec. 19, 2023, and for leaving a swastika on MTA headquarters on Broadway in 2022, officials said.<\/p>\n

His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on the subway station attack was pending Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect with an extensive criminal history cops now believe carried out an anti-Asian hate crime spree on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-22942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","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-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc-crime","21":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942","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=22942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}