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   When a Queens woman tried to maneuver away from a passerby not   
   wearing a mask, he spouted a racist tirade and broke her   
   cellphone, cops said Monday.   
      
   The startling attack, which happened about 11:45 a.m. Sunday, is   
   the latest in a string of anti-Asian hate crimes related to the   
   coronavirus pandemic.   
      
   "We’ve seen it on the news, but we never thought it would happen   
   to us,” the 36-year-old victim told the Daily News. "I felt   
   helpless, really, like, how can this thing be happening?”   
      
   The victim, who was wearing a face covering, and her attacker,   
   who was not, were walking toward each other near Wetherole St.   
   and 66th Ave. in Rego Park when she noticed his face was bare,   
   police said.   
      
   The victim, who asked that her name not be used, told The News   
   she was walking home from the grocery store with her wife. The   
   attacker was walking alongside a woman who also wasn’t wearing a   
   mask, the victim said.   
      
   “We stepped aside for [them] to pass because it was a very   
   narrow walkway,” said the woman, who works in finance. "I think   
   he took offense at that. He started screaming racist insults.”   
      
   “Are you serious?" he shouted, according to cops. “You stupid b--   
   -h c--t. You’re the ones that brought the virus here!”   
      
   The suspect stood about 10 feet away when the victim said she   
   turned around and asked what his problem was. That’s when he   
   charged at her and her wife, pulling items from their cart and   
   throwing them into the street, she said.   
      
   "I was upset because I don’t want him to get away with this. I   
   follow him and try to take a picture of him. He saw me taking a   
   picture, he lunged at me again, pushed me, and tried to grab the   
   phone from my hand,” the victim told The News.   
      
   He knocked it from her hand and repeatedly smashed it into the   
   sidewalk, then picked it up and threw it again, she said.   
      
   The bigoted hothead ran west on Wetherole St. Cops recovered   
   photos of the man from a witness and a nearby security camera   
   and released them Monday.   
      
   "There’s a lot of good community around us,” the woman said,   
   pointing out that people on the street heard her yells and   
   called police. “One of the guys actually managed to chase him   
   and took a picture of him.... Good guy.”   
      
   The suspect is described as white with a salt-and-pepper beard   
   and mustache. He was wearing a white baseball cap, a white   
   hooded sweater, white sweatpants and white sneakers.   
      
   Cops ask anyone with information about the attack to call Crime   
   Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.   
      
   So far this year, the NYPD has responded to 14 anti-Asian hate   
   crimes motivated by the coronavirus. During the same period last   
   year, the NYPD responded to three anti-Asian hate crimes.   
      
   The victim called it ironic her attacker thought she was   
   Chinese; she’s Malaysian, she said.   
      
   “Crazy,” she laughed. “They don’t care.”   
      
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