Members of the Asian-American community in the US have increasingly become the target of intimidation and violence since the corona crisis.
Woman strikes back
Xiao Zhen wanted to cross the road when she was knocked out of nowhere by a 39-year-old man. She didn’t hesitate for a moment and fought back. She hit her attacker a few times with a stick.
The old woman, weeping, tells the local KPIX-TV that she acted instinctively. An employee of that channel happened to be in the area and filmed the aftermath:
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The images show that the woman is holding an ice pack on her battered face. The attacker is carried away on a stretcher.
“It is very traumatized, she is very scared, does not dare to leave her home and her eye is still bleeding,” the woman’s daughter, Dong-Mei Li, said in an interview:
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Police suspect the man assaulted an 83-year-old Asian man in the same neighborhood just before the incident. It is being investigated whether there was indeed a racist motive.
Police have been extra patrolling the Asian neighborhood of San Francisco since six Asian women and two others were shot by a 21-year-old man in Atlanta last week. The perpetrator gives as an explanation for his act that he was frustrated.
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