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NYPD: 16-year-old girl arrested for alleged anti-Asian attack on subway

Police arrest 16-year-old girl for attack on F train
Police arrest 16-year-old girl for attack on F train 00:32

NEW YORK -- Police say they have arrested a teenage girl accused of attacking two Asian women on the subway last week.

It happened Thursday at the West Fourth Street station in Greenwich Village.

A 16-year-old girl has been charged with two counts of assault.

Police say a 51-year-old woman was aboard an F train when the girl allegedly made an anti-ethnic remark, pulled her to the ground and repeatedly punched her in the head.

A woman who took a video of the incident says she was also attacked.

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