A “wolf pack” of teenage vandals vandalized a Chinese restaurant in New York on Saturday night, leaving about $20,000 in damage, and staff say they are becoming increasingly unsafe as crime continues to plague the city.
Shocking footage shows more than a dozen masked youths going on a rampage at the Fish Village restaurant in Queens shortly after 8:15 p.m. as diners ate dinner.
Unidentifiable in masks and hooded tops, the mob wreaks total destruction while flipping tables and chairs. The wanton destruction also saw broken dishes and a large damaged window.
The staff at the 127th Street restaurant look visibly shaken in the video, and while no one was physically injured, they are concerned for their safety.
“It was a bit scary,” said Tong Yi Hu, a restaurant worker. the new york post office on Tuesday. “We have no idea what the cause was, and he was quite distressing.
“It’s getting less and less safe,” he said of the city.
Tony Hu, the restaurant’s manager, said he still has no idea why the attack happened.
‘From the moment they walked in to the moment they left, only a minute passed. They didn’t say a word. We have no idea what was going on,’ she said. cbs news.
“I was so worried that they were going to harm my employees or customers. But it soon became clear that they just wanted to cause as much damage as possible,” Hu said.
She explained that she had been behind the cash register at the time of the attack and ran to call 911, but by the time she got to the police, the thugs had already fled.
The manager said he is concerned about what the attack will mean for the restaurant’s future, as he fears it will have a financial impact and damage its reputation among customers.
The property damage was around $20,000 and the restaurant also had to give the 30 or so customers present their free meal.
In response to the ordeal, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa called the rowdy group ‘a pack of wolves’ and said his community policing team would step in and patrol the restaurant.
Outside the Fish Village restaurant in Queens. Guardian Angels will now patrol the area, its founder said
“This was a pack of wolves, a bunch of teenage bullies rampaging through the restaurant,” Sliwa told The Post on Tuesday. ‘Another Asian trader is treated like a speed bump.
‘Nothing will happen to them (the criminals). They will be accused as minors and will return to the streets. Your friends will watch the video and be treated as heroes in the neighborhood.
Sliwa, who previously ran for mayor, added that he believes “the city is out of control.”
Tony Hu, the restaurant’s manager, said he was shocked by the attack, which occurred in less than a minute.
He said his community policing team will now try to support the restaurant by patrolling around it.
Community activist and president of the Asian Wave Alliance, Yiatin Chu, shared the clip on Twitter, writing: “We have sunk so low that there is no expectation of consequences for this horrible attack on private property.”
Mayor Eric Adams vowed to tackle crime in the city after rates rose in all categories last year, according to New York police data.
Shocking footage shows more than a dozen masked youths going on a rampage at the Fish Village restaurant in Queens shortly after 8:15 p.m. as diners ate dinner.
The staff at the 127th Street restaurant look visibly shaken in the video, and while no one was physically injured, they are concerned for their safety.
Unidentifiable in masks and hooded tops, the mob wreaks total destruction while flipping tables and chairs.
Crime against Asians in particular has skyrocketed during 2021, with a 96 percent increase in New York, reaching a century high according to experts at California State University.
Adams has repeatedly pointed out that the justice system’s current practice of ‘catch, release, repeat’ is one of the main drivers of crime in New York City.
Last summer, he blamed the city’s criminal justice system for making the Big Apple the “laughing stock of our entire country.”
On Monday, the mayor revealed that he is asking business owners to direct customers to remove face masks when entering businesses to reduce shoplifting.
He noted that having shoppers remove their masks when entering stores will cause their identity to be captured on camera in the event of a crime.
But so far this year, criminal activity appears to have slowed.
Speaking on PIX11 News on Monday morning, Adams noted a recent decline in crime after it spiked and then leveled off during the pandemic.
On Tuesday, the New York Police Department announced that crime on the subway is down 21.5% from the same period last year, after Mayor Eric Adams ordered more police officers to patrol the subway system. .
Last month, the NYPD revealed a 5.6 percent drop in felony crimes in February compared to the same year last year, including 11 fewer murders compared to 2022.
And on Tuesday, the New York Police Department announced that crime on the subway is down 21.5% from the same period last year, after Mayor Eric Adams ordered more police officers to patrol the transit system. Underground.
In the first nine weeks of 2023 alone, authorities say, police handed out nearly 10,000 more citations than early last year.
Rapes were down 10.5 percent, robberies were down 2 percent, shootings were down 11.2 percent, and murders were down 16.9 percent.
Serious crime assaults increased by 11.2% in 2023: 3,780 incidents compared to 3,398 observed in 2022.