CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A man attacked a 51-year-old woman and accused her of being racist in what police are investigating as a hate crime.

The attack happened about 5:45 p.m. Sunday in the 2900 block of Archwood Avenue in the city's Brooklyn Centre neighborhood.

The man, whose photo was released in the hopes that someone can identify him, is black and the woman who reported the attack is white, police said.

The man walked up to one woman without saying anything and punched her, knocking her to the ground, police said.

The man then yelled at the woman and accused her of being in the Ku Klux Klan, said she was a "white supremacist," according to police. The woman told police she had no affiliation to the KKK or any white supremacist group, according to police reports.

The woman walked to her home, called police and told her 21-year-old son what happened, police said. The two then walked back to where the man stood. The son took a photo of the man with his cellphone.

The man saw him take the photo and knocked the phone from his hand and cracked the screen, police reports say.

The man then accused the woman's son of being involved in the KKK. The 21-year-old also told police he had no affiliation with the hate group.

Several others who stood nearby heard the man's accusations and threatened the mother and son, according to police reports.

The duo ran off and called police again.

It's the second hate crime that happened that day, according to police.

The other happened about 2:30 a.m. at a food truck in the East Bank of the Flats. A man shouted racial slurs at a 22-year-old Westlake man and told him: ""you don't belong, go back to your own country," according to police.

The attacker punched the man at least twice in the face, according to police. The man hit his head on the cement and was knocked unconscious.

The man suffered a broken jaw and lost one tooth in the encounter.

The police report does not list the 22-year-old man's ethnicity. The attacker, however, kept referring to the 22-year-old man as an "Indian," according to police.

Anyone with information on the attack is being asked to call detectives at 216-623-2708.

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