San Francisco police are looking for a man who has been accused of yelling anti-Chinese expletives while throwing eggs at Asian passengers on a Muni bus last week.
The incident, which rider Michelle Young (@UntappedMich) caught on video and shared on Twitter, reportedly occurred on the 38 bus near Geary and Divisadero Streets on Thursday.
“San Francisco @BART just now. Guy with lots of eggs came on and starting yelling to me and the Asian girl next to me, ‘stupid Chinese b*tch,’” Young, who was visiting from New York, wrote.
The passengers allegedly got egg in their hair. In Young’s video, the suspect can be seen throwing an egg at a person who tried intervening.
“He ends up throwing it at a pretty fast pace, almost like a baseball,” she told .
The man left at a bus stop, but he was not done yet. He allegedly threw more eggs at open windows.
“All the women around me had eggs all over their hair, there were egg shells everywhere,” Young told .
She said she caught the man throwing one last egg at her window, which was closed. She also shared that she did not get to wash her hair until seven hours later.
After learning of Young’s experience, Wendy Zhang, another Muni rider, accused the same man of throwing food at her in December 2022.
“He started yelling racist slurs against Asian people, especially Chinese,” Zhang told .
The Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) is investigating the “utterly unacceptable” incidents.
On Friday, it vowed to prosecute those responsible for such “heinous attacks” to the fullest extent of the law.