2 men arrested in anti-Asian attacks as another victim slapped in face: Cops 2 arrests in anti-Asian attacks Two men from Brooklyn were arrested for their roles in separate attacks on Asian Americans in New York City. NEW YORK - The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force has been busy investigating a rising surge of anti-Asian attacks in the city. New reports keep coming in, most recently Thursday morning, of police releasing new surveillance video of a 25-year-old Asian woman getting slapped in the face by an unidentified woman in her 30s. Police say it happened Wednesday night. The suspect made anti-Asian statements to her victim who is sitting, talking to her friend on the Lower East Side. The suspect then slaps the woman in the face and walked away.