A 74-year-old woman in Manhattan was punched in the face after she confronted a group of teenagers who snatched her purse, police said. The incident happened around 7 p.m. Thursday as the woman was standing on East 14th Street in the East Village, the NYPD said. Security video obtained by WPIX-TV shows three people passing the woman, one of whom grabs the woman's purse. There were 1,276 robberies reported last month compared to 1,226 in August 2019, a 4.1% increase. Assaults also climbed in the Big Apple, with 2,027 last month compared to 1,987 in 2019, an increase of 2.0%.

Source: Fox News September 06, 2020 12:22 UTC