This harrowing confrontation transpired over a week prior when Vivian Dang, a 25-year-old commuter, became the target of racial animosity by a group of unidentified adolescents on the train.
Transit police in Boston announced the arrest of a 16-year-old male in connection to an alleged racially motivated assault on a woman of Asian descent on the Red Line near the JFK/UMass stop in an incident that was caught on tape. The arrest on Monday was in relation to an alleged assault that occurred on Sept. 21. The investigation is ongoing, and charges will be sought, according to a statement released by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police on social media Tuesday.
Transit police in Boston arrested a 16-year-old male on Monday after a group of teens was recorded harassing an Asian American woman with racist language and trying to block her from leaving a train.