A trio of hate-spewing teens blamed an Asian woman for coronavirus as they attacked her on board a city bus in The Bronx, police said Sunday.
The three girls approached the 51-year-old victim on the bus near Ogden Avenue and West 166th Street, screaming a series of anti-Asian slurs around 3 p.m. Saturday when one of the 15-year-olds hit the Asian woman in the head with an umbrella, cops said.
“You caused coronavirus b—-h!” one of the hateful kids shouted.
The woman was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she received stitches on her head, cops said.
The three girls, whose names were not released because they are underage, were each slapped with a slew of charges, including hate crime assault and aggravated harassment, police said.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak arrived in New York City, the NYPD has investigated 10 other cases “where all the victims were Asian and targeted due to discrimination based on the coronavirus pandemic,” a spokesman said Friday.
Additional reporting by Olivia Bensimon
