New York police search for woman on viral video shouting at Asian family
- The New York Police Department said a woman is ‘wanted for assault’ in connection to an incident on August 3 on a New York subway carriage
- A video of the incident went viral, showing three young women shouting at an Asian family before brawling with multiple subway passengers
The New York Police Department (NYPD) announced on Sunday it is searching for a woman who was seen on a viral video shouting at an Asian family on the city’s subway and confronting the passenger filming the altercation.
Police said the woman is wanted for assault. In a social media post, the police department said the incident occurred on the evening of August 3, on a southbound F train at West 4th Street.
The video showed three young women sitting across from an Asian family with two children, shouting at the family for unclear reasons. The woman who took the video wrote in a caption that the women were “harassing” the family and said she chose to start filming because she “knew it was going to get bad.”
The video shows one of the women repeatedly rushing over to the woman filming, though the footage cuts out before any violence is shown.
“This ferocious one runs over to hit me. I put down my phone to cover my head and took the blow (ow),” one of the video’s captions said.
The video then showed a brawl involving multiple passengers. A video caption said the woman filming was dragged by the hair and hit several times until she rolled away.
A caption on the video said the incident ended at the next subway stop, when everyone involved exited the carriage. She said she spoke to the mother of the family and shared the videos with her to help in filing a police report.
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The NYPD’s social media post said one of the women seen in the video sparked a “dispute” with a 51-year-old victim, and “made an anti-ethnic remark, pulled her by the hair & punched her.” The police department urged anyone with further information about the identity of the woman to come forward.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for further details about the altercation.
