Police were hunting yesterday for a pack of racial-epithet-spewing thugs who hopped out of a car and beat up a group of men on a busy Chinatown street for no apparent reason.
The episode unfolded at 6:40 p.m. Monday when at least two white men and two women started screaming anti-Chinese remarks from their car at a man on Canal Street, witnesses and police said.
When the man cursed back, the white men hopped out of their white 2007 Nissan and began beating him, police said.
They then began indiscriminately beating anyone who got in their way and screaming racial epithets and taunting them, “This is for the Korean War!”
“They just started hitting Chinese people. They were kicking and beating one guy and they were screaming ‘F- – -ing Chinese. Stupid Chinese,’ ” said vendor Zong Zheng. When someone phoned police, several witnesses said one of the attackers flashed what appeared to be gun. The gang then drove off just before police arrived.