Brooklyn Woman Arrested For Bias Attack In Tribeca: NYPD

TRIBECA, NY — A Brooklyn woman was arrested and charged with assault and harassment Wednesday for allegedly bashing a Manhattan lawyer in the face with a metal make-up box and shouting 'White b---h, take that,' police said.

Crown Heights resident Amy Bell, 37, was walking along Warren Street near West Broadway just after 10:50 a.m. on May 31 when she allegedly struck a woman in the head with the box, screamed an anti-white slur and laughed in her face, authorities said.

Police say Bell fled west on Warren Street, leaving the 57-year-old victim with a gash on her face. The woman, a lawyer who works on civil rights, juvenile justice and immigration issues, was treated at NYU Langone Medical Center. She was on her way back to her office when she was clobbered.

The victim spoke out to The Daily News earlier this week and said she thought her attacker was dancing moments before she was brutally assaulted.

"I was walking down the block and I did see this woman take her arm and swing it all the way back," the victim, who asked that her identity not be revealed for fear of reprisal, told the newspaper. "In my head I thought she was dancing, and to myself I said, 'Isn't that nice, a woman is dancing on the street'. And the next thing you know, kapow! Right in the eye, cheek — I mean, the pain was excruciating."

Bell was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and harassment, police said.

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

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