his motive is unclear but no indication yet why james targeted the particular subway stop in sunset park neighborhood but in now deleted youtube videos, james discussed violence talking about death in a race war and the desire to exterminate certain groups of people. new york s asian-american federation called tuesday s shooting trama in a neighborhood is what makes new york city great noting it s home to brooklyn s china town and a large hispanic population in multi racial working class neighborhood. joining me now is congresswoman velasquez that represents the district where the shooting took place. having lived in new york and born in brooklyn, i m sensitive to this idea there was a time in new york when walking around as a black person in certain areas you just felt afraid whether it was of police or other people in neighborhoods, you re talking about that era when those kind of things happen in places like howard beach, et cetera but now you know asian-americans are