Attacker calls man ‘homophobic,’ slaps him in caught-on-video NYC assault

An attacker slapped a person throughout the face and known as him “homophobic” throughout a broad-daylight assault inside a Manhattan espresso store, in accordance with cops and new video. 

The 22-year-old sufferer was standing in entrance of Gregory’s Espresso on the Avenue of the Americas close to West thirty first Avenue in Midtown round 3:30 p.m. again on Aug. 21 when the suspect abruptly chucked an “unknown object” at him, authorities mentioned. 

Then he adopted the person into the store the place he snarled, “You assume you robust. You homophobic,” cops mentioned. 

“You assume you robust. You homophobic,” the suspect allegedly mentioned earlier than slapping the sufferer inside a Midtown Gregory’s Espresso store.

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The sufferer recoiled after the afternoon assault and the suspect fled.

The suspect has not but been caught.

Video launched late Tuesday exhibits the suspect then whacking the sufferer on the facet of the face, as somebody apparently labored on the counter. 

The sufferer recoiled and the suspect fled out the door, the clip exhibits. 

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Activity Power is investigating the incident, and the suspect has not but been caught.