A 52-year-old woman who offered to call the cops when she saw a yellow taxi driver and a Pedi cab driver arguing on a Manhattan street ended up getting hit multiple times -- and then spit on, and called slurs -- by one of the two, police say.
Cops say the woman noticed the men fighting on Broadway by the Marriott in the heart of Midtown around 8 a.m. Sept. 7. She offered to help, and the NYPD says the Pedi cab driver attacked her and made anti-Black statements.
The woman was not hospitalized. The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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WATCH HERECops say the Pedi cab driver was last seen wearing dark clothes and holding an umbrella as he rode.
They released a surveillance image of him (above).
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