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A video, posted on Twitter by New York State Assemblyman Yuh-Line Niou, shows a woman falling to the ground after she was punched by a man while walking down the street on Monday.
The man, wearing an orange hoodie and blue jacket, then walked away as passersby came to help the victim.
“This just happened in my district of Chinatown,” Niou said on Twitter, adding the video was posted by a constituent.
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This was just sent to me from my constituent. This just happened in my district in Chinatown. He has been arrested and our precinct is investigating. pic.twitter.com/sxNfCbrlza — Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) May 31, 2021
New York City Police later arrested and charged a man with hate crime after being arrested for the unprovoked attack on a 55-year-old Asian woman in the Chinatown area.
“Alexander Wright, 48, has been charged with assault, assault as a hate crime and criminal possession of a prohibited substance,” Detective Annette Shelton told Reuters in an email. Al Arabiya, Tuesday (1/6/2021).
Shelton said police arrested Wright for the attack and transferred him to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation.
“The victim is in stable condition,” Shelton said.
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Incidents of attacks against ethnic Asians in the US are common. Asian Americans have been the target of several unprovoked attacks.
A study by the Center for the Study of Hate in Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, examining police data from 16 jurisdictions across the United States, found a 164 percent increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year. .
Experts point to a number of factors behind the spike, including the use of stigmatized language such as “Kung flu” and “Chinese virus” during the pandemic. According to the report in March 2020, former US President Donald Trump tweeted the phrase “China virus” more than 20 times.
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