Welcome to Arrest Stories. A thirty-three-year-old man with eighty-six prior arrests unleashed a terrifying fifteen-minute spree of anti-Asian violence across Lower Manhattan, culminating in punching a stranger onto subway tracks. Here's what may have happened.
According to official reports, Clive Porter began his rampage after nine thirty-five Wednesday morning near Grand and Forsyth streets. Police describe a calculated pattern of attacks targeting elderly Asian victims in a concentrated area of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
The violence escalated rapidly as Porter allegedly punched a seventy-two-year-old man without warning on Hester Street near Eldridge Street, leaving the victim hospitalized with a broken nose. Minutes later, he reportedly struck a thirty-three-year-old Asian man in the head, causing him to collapse to the ground.
Witnesses report Porter shouting racial epithets during the attacks, specifically yelling "You Asian f word, you f wording Asians" and taunting victims with "What are you going to do about it." The spree continued as he allegedly pickpocketed an elderly Asian woman on Eldridge Street near Division Street before assaulting another elderly woman at Forsyth Street and East Broadway.
The most dangerous incident occurred at the Bowery subway station, where Porter allegedly punched a forty-five-year-old man who had just exited a J train, sending the victim tumbling onto the tracks with a bloodied nose and multiple injuries.
When officers attempted arrest, Porter reportedly headbutted an officer, causing a concussion. Officials characterized the incidents as "the violence born of bigotry," filing charges including assault as a hate crime, harassment, and reckless endangerment.
Porter's extensive criminal history includes arrests in February and March twenty twenty-three for tampering and aggravated assault, resulting in a five-month jail sentence after a June plea deal. Previous incidents include hurling a bottle through a car window in August twenty twenty-one and threatening someone with a knife in October twenty twenty-three.
Defense representatives indicated Porter had been without medication for several days, describing him as normally "a nice person" who "goes off" without proper treatment.
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