A 70-year-old Asian woman reportedly fought her much younger assailant in San Francisco on Wednesday, leaving him bloody on a stretcher, according to witnesses.
The unidentified woman, who was crying after the alleged attack, told police in Chinese that the man had punched her in the face without provocation while she was standing on the sidewalk.
Video posted on Twitter by KPIX-TV San Francisco sports director Dennis O’Donnell showed the woman with a black eye holding an ice pack over her face with one hand and carrying a cane that she allegedly used to defend herself against her alleged aggressor on the other hand.
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The suspected attacker, handcuffed to a stretcher, had a bloody mouth. He looked like he was in his 30s.
“You bum, why did you hit me?” she yelled at the man in Chinese, according to the season. She also turned to passersby on the sidewalk to accuse him of hitting her.
“The woman said she was hit,” said O’Donnell. “She attacked back. From what I could see, she wanted more of the guy on the stretcher and the police were holding her up.”
O’Donnell had encountered the scene during his morning run.
San Francisco police said a 39-year-old man is being investigated for the attack and another against an 83-year-old Asian man on Wednesday, according to KPIX. Police did not specify whether the man in the video, who was not identified, was the suspect under investigation or whether race was considered a factor in the alleged assaults.
The attacks come amid an increase in anti-Asian attacks across the country and the day after 8 people – including 6 Asian women – were shot dead in Georgia.
“We have to do our job and investigate these cases with all available resources and we need to make arrests, and we did that,” San Francisco police chief Bill Scott told reporters.
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Both the woman and her alleged abuser were taken to the hospital.