NYC subway rider sprays Asian man with Febreze and tells him to 'move' in a 'coronovirus hate crime' as mounting cases that have put 2,700 in quarantine leave city on edge<br />Incident occurred on Wednesday morning on N train in Sunset Park, Brooklyn<br />Black man confronted Asian straphanger and sprays him with Febreze<br />NYPD is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime<br />Other Asians have been assaulted or harassed over coronavirus fears <br />Police are investigating a possible hate crime after an alarming video surfaced showing a subway rider yelling at an Asian man and spraying him with Febreze.<br /><br />The incident occurred on an N train in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, according to the New York Post, and video of it was first posted to Facebook by another person on the train.<br /><br />'Tell him to move,' the aggressor shouts at the Asian man. A woman off camera replies asking why the man should move. <br /><br />'Because he's standing right f***ing next to me! … Tell him to move. Tell him to move,' the man shouts.<br />As the Asian man stands silently next to a door, the other man grabs a bottle of Febreze he appears to have been carrying in a laundry bag, and begins spraying it at the victim.<br /><br />'Move! I asked you nicely,' he says.<br /><br />A second video, which appears to have been shot just moments after the first one, shows the Asian man confronting the subway sprayer.<br /><br />'Why is that? Why can't I sit next to you?' the victim yells. A woman pulls him aside as the assailant repeatedly tells him 'You better move – you're being dumb right now. You're being dumb.' <br /><br />Police responded to a 911 call about the incident but the train had left the station.<br />The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. <br /><br />Although the video shows no mention of race, several Asian people in New York City have previously been attacked in racially motivated incidents over coronavirus fears.<br /><br />The MTA decried the incident as racist in a tweet saying that 'racism' doesn't work 'in stopping the spread of the Coronavirus.'<br /><br />Actress Celia Au, who is Chinese-American, tweeted the video, saying: 'There's not a single confirmed case of an Asian infected in NYC. Stop discriminating cause the virus definitely doesn't.'<br /><br />So far, there are 22 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York state. The race of most of the patients is unknown, but health officials say that none recently traveled to Asia. <br />
