VIDEO: Person Walks Away Laughing After Harassing Asian Woman

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — The police are still looking for a person who harassed an Asian woman and splashed her with a water bottle, in an unprovoked attack last month that the NYPD is investigating as a hate crime.

On Saturday May 22 around noon, a 55-year-old Asian woman was walking her dog in broad daylight by 24-16 Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, when another woman approached her and splashed her with a bottle of water, police said.

The NYPD reported that the woman also made an anti-Asian statement, marking another racist attack against the Asian community in the wake of the pandemic, during which time racist and violent attacks have exponentially increased.

The woman who harassed the Asian woman then left the area laughing, according to surveillance footage that the police got from a nearby location.

As of July 18 she still has not been identified, and the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is still investigating the incident.

In addition to the surveillance footage, the police described the assailant as a 20-something woman who was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses, a blue shirt, gray pants, and gray sneakers.

Anyone with information about this incident can call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) or submit a tip online or on Twitter.