‘I’m a Black woman ... I expected it’: Victim speaks out after being punched on Manhattan street and peppered with slurs


A Black woman who was punched in the face and peppered with slurs on a Manhattan street said Tuesday she wasn’t surprised by the racial assault — but she was shocked by who hurled them.

“It’s shocking because we are both minorities,” the 21-year-old woman said about the Middle Eastern-looking suspects. “Honestly, I was really shocked that these guys were doing this.”

“They were calling us names,” she said. “We were going to record them. My brother put me behind him. One of them went behind him and attacked me. He hit me behind my ear. It’s tender still. I have a knot there. My face was swollen.”
Suspect Ali Akram, 25, hit the woman in the face and called her a “n----r,” cops said. He also mocked her brother, who identifies as queer, as a “f-----t,” said prosecutors.
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