Bigot Bashed Woman With Metal Box, Screamed Anti-White Slur: NYPD

TRIBECA, NY — Police are searching for a bigot who bashed a woman over the head with a metal make-up box in Tribeca while shouting an anti-white slur, police said Thursday.

"White b---h, take that!" shouted the attacker, who police describe as a black woman in her 30s or 40s, before she struck the victim in the face on Warren Street near West Broadway just after 11:50 a.m. on May 31, authorities said.

The box basher bolted west on Warren Street, leaving the 57-year-old victim was a gash on her face, said police. The woman was treated at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Police released images of the assailant, who wore a blue jacket, light pants, and carried a silver-and-black metal box.

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the attack.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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