Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Suspect Arrested In Latest Chinatown Attack

POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A DARK

COLORED SEDAN TRAVELING

ONE PERSON IS UNDER ARREST

FOLLOWING AN ATTACK ON AN ASIAN

AMERICAN IN THE CITY.

THE ASSAULT WAS CAUGHT ON

CAMERA.

JOHN DIAS JOINS US LIVE FROM

CHINATOWN WITH MORE.

Reporter: POLICE CONFIRMED

THAT THE SUSPECT LIVES IN A

HOMELESS SHELTER AND IS BEING

INCLUDING ASSAULT AS A HATE

CRIME.

POLICE TELL US THAT THEY FOUND

WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE DRUG K 2

ON HIM.

IT'S DISTURBING VIDEO.

AN ASIAN WOMAN WALKING WHEN

WITHOUT REASON ALEXANDER WRIGHT

PUNCHES HER IN HER FACE SO HARD

THAT SHE FALLS TO THE GROUND IN

MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS

DEFINITELY WONDERING IF SHE WAS

OKAY.

I WAS RELIEVED TO SEE THAT SOME

PEOPLE WENT AND RUSHED TO HER

AID.

Reporter: THE 55-YEAR-OLD

WOMAN WAS TREATED AT A NEARBY

HOSPITAL AND WILL BE OKAY.

LOCAL LEADERS SAY EVEN THOUGH

THE ASSAULT IS HORRIFYING, IT'S

IMPORTANT TO SEE, TO WITNESS

THE GROWING NUMBER OF ATTACKS

ON ASIAN AMERICANS IN NEW YORK

CITY.

I CAN, YOU KNOW, NOT

UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE CAN'T

JUST SEE THAT WE ARE ALSO

HUMAN.

Reporter: SHE SAYS IT'S

HEART-BREAKING AND TRAUMATIC

FOR HER COMMUNITY.

THE NYPD HATE CRIMES TASK FORCE

WHEN PEOPLE HURT US, THAT

CAUSES PERMANENT TRAUMA AND OUR

COMMUNITIES ARE JUST AS -- WE

WANT TO BE ABLE TO LIVE AND

WORK AND BE.

THE LATEST NUMBERS SHOW THAT

SO FAR THIS YEAR IN NEW YORK

CITY 86 HATE CRIMES THIS YEAR

COMPARED TO TAKE TOTAL OF 19

ALL OF LAST YEAR.

WE ARE LIVE THIS MORNING FROM

CHINATOWN, JOHN DIAS, CBS 2

NEWS.