The NYPD is searching for a woman seen on a viral video shouting at an Asian family and attacking the woman filming

• The NYPD said Sunday a woman is "wanted for assault" following an incident on the F train on August 3.
• A video of the incident went viral, showing three young women shouting at an Asian family before brawling with multiple subway passengers.
• The NYPD said one of the women "made an anti-ethnic remark" during the altercation.

The NYPD announced Sunday it is searching for a woman who was seen on a viral video shouting at an Asian family on the New York City subway and confronting the passenger filming the altercation.

The NYPD said the woman is wanted for assault. In a social media post, the police department said the incident occurred on the evening of August 3, on a southbound F train at West 4th Street.

The video showed three young women sitting across from an Asian family with two children, shouting at the family for unclear reasons. The woman who took the video wrote in a caption that the women were "harassing" the family and said she chose to start filming because she "knew it was going to get bad."

The video shows one of the women repeatedly rushing over to the woman filming, though the footage cuts out before any violence is shown. 

"This ferocious one runs over to hit me. I put down my phone to cover my head and took the blow (ow)," one of the video's captions said.

The video then showed a brawl involving multiple passengers. A video caption said the woman filming was dragged by the hair and hit several times until she rolled away.

A caption on the video said the incident ended at the next subway stop, when everyone involved exited the car. She said she spoke to the mother of the family and shared the videos with her to assist in filing a police report.

The NYPD told Insider in a statement that the victim "sustained bruising and swelling to the head" after the incident, and the three women "fled out of the station to parts unknown.

The video has prompted outrage, particularly in New York City, where an uptick of anti-Asian attacks in recent years have stoked fear among Asian communities. In response, the NYPD created the Asian Hate Crime Task Force shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began, citing a sevenfold increase in reports of anti-Asian harassment, discrimination, and violence since February 2020.

The NYPD's social media post said one of the women seen in the video sparked a "dispute" with a 51-year-old victim, and "made an anti-ethnic remark, pulled her by the hair & punched her." The police department urged anyone with further information about the identity of the woman to come forward.