<p>NEW YORK — A man was arrested Tuesday in an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ny-state-wire-043f56a2f481acd726d02f5714580e55">assault on a Chinese American man</a> who was kicked repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said.</p>
<p>Jarrod Powell was charged with two counts of felony assault in Friday’s attack on 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma, police said. It wasn’t clear if Powell, 49, had an attorney who could comment on the charges.</p>
<p>Ma was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head. He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he remained in a coma on Tuesday, officials said.</p>
<p>The police department’s hate crimes task force was investigating the attack, which appeared to be among the latest in a troubling rise in <a href="https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-discrimination-immigration-crime-massachusetts-c9e6799604805cffb34d717af2a30409"> anti-Asian hate crimes</a> in New York and around the country.</p>
<p>Surveillance video showing the attacker kicking Ma and stomping on him, echoing last month’s assault near Times Square in which a Filipina American woman was knocked to the ground and stomped on. A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/brandon-elliot-arrested-attacked-65-year-old-asian-woman-741b8c594e1f288cf753b9e5a99e9ed4"> arrested in that attack.</a></p>
<p>Elected officials and community advocates planned a news conference later Tuesday to announce the creation of a trust fund to assist Ma’s family. </p>
