Malliotakis holds conference to discuss attack on 89-year-old woman lit on fire
Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis held a conference on Thursday, August 6 outside the Homecrest-Bensonhurst Senior Citizen Center, 7907 New Utrecht Ave., to discuss the attack on an 89-year-old Asian woman who was slapped and lit on fire while walking on 16th Avenue and 77th Street last month.
“On July 14, an 89-year-old Chinese American woman was attacked outside her home just a couple of blocks away from here,” she said. “She was a 20-year member of our Homecrest Bensonhurst Senior Center. This woman, who innocently walked outside her home, was attacked by two individuals, slapped in the face and set on fire. Thankfully, she was able to use some tactics that put that fire out immediately on her clothes and saved her life. Think about what kind of society we are in right now where elderly senior citizens are being attacked.”
During the conference, Malliotakis, the Republican candidate for Congress in New York’s 11th District, blamed a lot of the increase in crime on the budget cuts to the NYPD for Fiscal Year 2021.