you made the quan armstead was let out of hate crimes
task force in handcuffs asked why attack seven women since
march police say that's not true armstead accused of
punching women in the head face and back all over the lower
east side charged today with hate crime assault i've got a
sister you know i had a mother i got me says you know
what i worry about that the nypd tells us this year
alone there have been ninety-six unprovoked assaults
in manhattan fifty of them involved women
you know you can even walk down the street without
getting punched in the face arrest
today's arrest comes on the heels of numerous women using
tiktok to share their accounts of random assaults in
manhattan
i just got punched in the face i was literally just
walking and a man came up to me in the face oh my god
oh back
i was punched in the head chief of detectives joseph
kenny saying we welcome that social media reporting we want
to encourage reporting so that we can make these arrests with
several other incidents still being investigated women
across the city
are doing whatever they can to protect themselves i just
stay aware constantly looking around and i don't make eye
contact with certain people