A Brooklyn woman was arrested Friday for a vile attack in which she allegedly told an Asian woman to “speak English” before pulling her hair and spitting on her in Manhattan last month, police said.
Yvonne Yehudah, 31, was charged with aggravated harassment for the hateful July 25 incident on the Upper West Side, cops said.
The victim, 26-year-old Bokyung Kim said she was speaking to a friend in Mandarin at West 60th Street and Broadway when the suspect confronted her.
“[She] was walking down the street behind us. She was eating dinner in takeout boxes, and I remember her saying ‘bit–, you should speak English. Speak English,’” Kim told to The Post in an interview after the attack.
Kim and her friend began running but Yehudah allegedly caught up to them at a street corner. The suspect then pulled Kim’s hair, spit in her face and threw food at her.
Kim, who had moved to the city from Los Angeles three weeks earlier, said the attacker threatened to “beat the shit out of me” before a good Samaritan intervened.
“I was just so shocked and I tried to say sorry to her because I didn’t do anything wrong,” Kim, shaken, told The Post.
The incident was investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
