(nypost.com
>Cops are investigating an alarming video of a man spraying Febreze at an Asian subway straphanger in an incident being investigated as a coronavirus-related hate crime, authorities said Thursday.
The 35-second clip, first posted to Facebook, shows the man on an N train in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, yelling at the victim to “move” at around 9 a.m. Wednesday.
>“Tell him to move,” he said — before a woman off camera asked why the man should move.
>“Because he’s standing right f–king next to me! … Tell him to move. Tell him to move,” the man raged.
He later grabbed a bottle of Febreze air freshener, which he was carrying in a bag, and began spraying in the rider’s direction.
A second video posted to Facebook, shows the Asian man confronting the sprayer, apparently after the incident.
>“Why is that? Why can’t I sit next to you?” the victim yells, before a woman drags him away as the assailant repeatedly tells him “You better move – you’re being dumb right now. You’re being dumb.”
Police responded to a 911 call for the incident but the train had already left the station.
>“The train was no longer there [at the station], so we were unable to take a report,” Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said at a crime briefing on Thursday.
>“We are investigating it right now. Our Hate Crimes Task Force is reviewing the incident and it’s an ongoing investigation.”
