{"id":67603,"date":"2021-01-06T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=67603"},"modified":"2021-01-06T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:26:46","slug":"man-in-nyc-arrested-for-a-string-of-attacks-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-in-nyc-arrested-for-a-string-of-attacks-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in NYC arrested for a string of attacks on women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-in-nyc-arrested-for-a-string-of-attacks-on-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=67603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1229473130-323x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2354722\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2354722\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2354722 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1229473130-673x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2354722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters ride the New York City Subway on November 5, 2020. (Photo by Daniel SLIM \/ AFP) (Photo by DANIEL SLIM\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 6:25 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, January 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A New York man is facing charges in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/06\/man-busted-for-series-of-attacks-on-women-in-nyc-subway-station\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">string of attacks<\/a> on several women.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 29-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-man-arrested-after-string-attacks-women\">Khari Covington<\/a> was arrested and charged with eight counts of assault as a hate crime. Covington is accused of attacking nine women in separate instances from August to as recently as Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great work by members of the Brooklyn Transit Robbery Squad, 90 Squad, 83 Squad, and Hate Crimes Task Force for apprehending Khari Covington, closing an assault pattern targeting women in Brooklyn. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYPD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NYPD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDShea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYPDShea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDChiefofDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYPDChiefofDept<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDFIRSTDEP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYPDFIRSTDEP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDChiefPatrol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYPDChiefPatrol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYPDnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VCrmCJy1AJ\">pic.twitter.com\/VCrmCJy1AJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDDetectives\/status\/1346918113334456327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials said he targeted light-skinned women and most of the attacks happened at subway stations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came out of nowhere, and he just started punching me,&#8221; Covington&#8217;s victim, Bianca Fortis, said. &#8220;He hit my face, my chest, my shoulder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Covington is facing both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/new-suspect-charged-with-hate-crimes-in-attacks-on-women-at-brooklyn-subway-station\/2813877\/\">assault and attempted robbery charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/lawmakers-and-officials-condemn-attack-on-u-s-capitol\/\">Lawmakers And Officials Condemn Attack On U.S. Capitol<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters ride the New York City Subway on November &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180612,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1229473130-323x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Man in NYC arrested for a string of attacks on women","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1229473130-323x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Man in NYC arrested for a string of attacks on women","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}