ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images An 83-year-old Asian American woman was spat on and punched in the face in an unprovoked attack. White Plains police arrested a man on charges of second-degree assault on a person 65 or older. The woman said she was collecting bottles and cans when the assailant approached her. New York authorities said an 83-year-old Korean American woman was brutally assaulted as she collected bottles and cans, the latest in a stream of violent attacks against Asian Americans across the country. Police in White Plains, New York, arrested 40-year-old Glenmore Nembhard on March 11, alleging he spat on the elderly woman and punched her in the face, knocking her unconscious in an unprovoked attack outside the Westchester Mall in White Plains.