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A series of women have posted alarming TikTok reports about being randomly punched by a stranger while walking in New York, including at least two daylight attacks reported to cops this week. Halley Kate, an influencer who has 1.1 million followers on the platform, posted a video Monday after one attack being investigated by the NYPD, saying it caused her to fall to the ground and black out. “You guys, I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,” Kate said through tears in a post on Monday morning. “Oh my God, it...

Authorities have identified two suspects who attacked a Chipotle employee in South Carolina after being told that extra chicken would raise the price of their meal. Jamel Bernard Williams, 36, and Kayla Nicole Pyle, 34, both of Charlotte, have been accused of attacking a 20-year-old female Chipotle employee on December 10. Williams has been charged with assault and first-degree battery and Pyle with assault and second-degree battery. According to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, Pyle came into the fast food restaurant to place an order and reportedly asked for extra chicken. The unidentified employee told the customer that the extra...

On December 5, 2023, around 9:52 p.m., the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Willis High School about an assault that occurred in the parking lot at the school. According to the victim, who is a coach for Willis ISD, he was assaulted by several individuals, including a student identified as Jevin Allen, 17, when they returned to the school after the Willis and Conroe game. The coach says Jevin was benched at the game due to his behavior toward an opposing team player, which infuriated Jevin and his family. Willis ISD ends school year due to power outage...

A 20-year-old Detroit mother allegedly punched and knocked out a female Kroger worker as her one-year-old child watched from a shopping cart. Shelby Parham, from Detroit, Michigan, has been accused of attacking a 49-year-old Kroger worker who lost consciousness and suffered a head injury after the assault. The wild beating was captured on nearby security cameras at a Kroger in St. Clair Shores on Tuesday. In the video, Parham can be seen walking up to the unnamed clerk and punching her in the face, sending her flat to the ground, while her one-year-old baby witnessed the incident from a shopping...

A Florida man has been arrested and charged after he was caught on camera viciously punching an elderly shopper at a Walmart last month. Joseph Albert McFadden, 34, has been accused of aggravated battery on elderly after he was seen brutally punching the victim twice in his face and fleeing the scene. The unsettling attack occurred on October 11 at around 10am, as the victim, in his 80s, was leaving Walmart in Lauderdale Lakes with a shopping bag in his hands. McFadden was arrested at another Walmart in the county last week after the store's security staff identified him and...

A Chicago man enjoying a slice of pizza was savagely beaten and robbed by two brutes in a brazen daylight attack caught on camera Monday — a day before the House Judiciary Committee visited town to hear testimony about how “soft-on-crime” policies have turned the Windy City into an “active warzone.” The victim, an unidentified 33-year-old, was walking down a residential alleyway in Bucktown around 2:55 p.m. when two males ran up to him from behind and delivered a brutal sucker punch to his head. Collapsing face-first into a chain-link fence, the victim cried out in surprise as his assailants...

A fiend strangled a woman from behind – causing her to black out – in a heinous, apparently unprovoked attack in the East Village last week, cops said. The 25-year-old woman was walking near Houston Street and Avenue D around 4:10 a.m. on Oct. 22 when an unidentified approached and strangled her from behind, police said. The sudden attack caused the victim to fall to the ground and black out briefly, authorities said. When the woman got back on her feet, her assailant ran off toward Avenue C, police said.

A Philadelphia influencer, who livestreamed a looting spree in the city, has had her legal representation slam the 'all out assault' on her as racist. Dayjia Blackwell, a 21-year-old influencer known as 'Meatball', livestreamed looters in the recent flash mob robbery in Philadelphia and asked her 181,000 Instagram followers to join her as she ran through the street. Jessica Mann, Blackwell's lawyer, wrote on social media Friday: 'It sickens me to witness the media's complicity in what can only be described as an all-out assault on black and brown people, as their character and actions are mercilessly vilified.' Mann defending...

An attack like this is really an attack against the basic premises of this country that as Americans, we are all entitled to equal and fair treatment under the law and that we should all treat one another with respect," Santa Clara Co. District Attorney Jeff Rosen said.

A teenage girl allegedly slugged an Asian woman riding a Manhattan subway train with her family last week and attacked a witness who was recording her behavior in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The still-at-large teen was sitting with two other young girls aboard a southbound F train before she allegedly launched the assaults as the train was approaching the West 4th Street station around 8 p.m. Thursday, according to police and a report. The trio of girls were shouting and cursing at the family before one allegedly pulled the hair of the 51-year-old mom, punched...

Asian American residents in Oakland Hills, California, are on high alert due to a string of home invasions targeting Asian families. Police’s internal advisory: There have been about 50 home invasion robberies cases involving elderly Asian families, reported ABC7 News after obtaining an internal advisory from the Oakland Police Department. According to law enforcement, the robberies may be connected to a group of criminals. Elderly victims: In one harrowing account, an 80-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife were at home with their two grandchildren when robbers broke through a window on Monday. The couple was reportedly held at gunpoint for...

A teenage girl was arrested on assault charges after footage of her attack on a Nevada family riding the New York City subway while on vacation went viral last week, police said. The 16-year-old, whom the New York Police Department has not named due to her age, turned herself in around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday to the 6th Precinct in Manhattan, close to the scene of Thursday's West 4th Street station beatdown. The teen was charged with two felony counts of assault, the NYPD told Fox News Digital. Video captured the teen battering 51-year-old Sue Young in front of her husband...

Washington Mystics player Natasha Cloud ripped the U.S. on Friday amid multiple rulings by the Supreme Court. Cloud, who shared reports of both rulings on her Instagram, hopped on Twitter and expressed her displeasure with the country. "Our country is trash in so many ways and instead of using our resources to make it better we continue to oppress Marginalized groups that we have targeted since the beginning of times," Cloud posted to Twitter. "Black/brown communities& LGBTQ+ man we are too powerful to still be attacking issues separate." Cloud also shared a story from Rolling Stone on the Supreme Court’s...

Carlishia Hood, 35, had been accused of getting her son, 14, to shoot dead Jeremy Brown, 32, on June 18. Charges against the two were ditched after Cooks County State Attorney Kim Foxx announced her office had backtracked on the charges. Brown could be seen yelling at Hood to 'get your food!' as she starts to argue with him. While she continued to yell back at him, he shouted: 'Oh my God, if you say one more thing, I'm going to knock you out.' He then took a big swing and punched her, with other customers in the store looking...

New York City mother-of-three who plowed her BMW into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 walked free from court on Monday having been sentenced to just five hours of community service as part of a plea agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Kathleen Casillo, 53, was facing the possibility of up to seven years in prison if convicted in the December 2020 incident that left six people injured. Under the deal, Casillo pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, she will have the charge reduced to a disorderly conduct violation if she fulfills her sentence and...

Multiple individuals have been arrested in connection with a series of robberies that have targeted Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose police announced on Wednesday. Demario Emmanuel, 20, and Jayonae Glaser, 19, were apprehended last Thursday, April 13, after Michael Pruitt, 21, and Ilyaas Mubarez, 19, were first taken into custody on March 30. The group are believed to be responsible for at least 15 robberies. After arresting Pruitt and Mubarez, police recovered stolen property, around $10,000 in cash, illegal firearms and equipment for creating ghost guns. Emmanuel was subsequently identified as a co-conspirator. He was...

Bronx judge rips grieving mom before cutting her son’s accused killer loose A soft-on-crime Bronx judge ripped a grieving mom in court before cutting her teen son’s accused killer free without bail, court records obtained by The Post show. Bronx Criminal Court Judge Naita Semaj on Wednesday refused to delay the arraignment of ex-con Tyresse Minter for just a few minutes so that the heartbroken mom of teen victim Corde Scott could face the accused killer, according to court transcripts. “What does that have to do with what we’re doing here?” Semaj snapped at Bronx prosecutor Christopher Conway when he...

Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo *** Extreme language warning. *** Convicted murderer Charleston White, who is now a criminal justice reform advocate & YouTuber, recorded an extremely racist anti-Asian tirade calling for Chinese stores to be robbed & the people to be raped & murdered. (Video and discussion at link )

Six suspects between the ages of 11 and 14 are now in custody in connection with the brutal beating of a woman on a Philadelphia street that left the victim unconscious late last month, police told WPVI-TV. Police told the station five of the six suspects in custody surrendered, while the sixth suspect — a 14-year-old female — was arrested at her home. There are eight suspects total. Investigators added to WPVI that there's a warrant for another 14-year-old female and authorities are still working to identify a juvenile male suspect. What's the background? The department said several people in...

An unhinged assailant randomly whacked a straphanger with a piece of metal in a Lower Manhattan subway station this week, authorities said. The 52-year-old victim was on the stairwell at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday when the stranger approached him and struck him in the head with the metal slab, cops said. The victim, who suffered a cut on his head, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The suspect fled the station on foot, and the NYPD released a photo of him late Thursday. No arrests have been made.