His wife, Cong Cong Hu, stepped in and tried to help, the surveillance video shows.
“I was so scared. What if the guy go crazy, have a gun or knife? I don’t know what would happen, so I’m so scared,” Hu said.
Lu had to go to the hospital, where he got 14 stitches.
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The family said the attacker ran away and has not been arrested.
Lu said he hopes to see police make an arrest and that he’s tired of seeing Asian Americans get attacked.
An investigation is ongoing, according to D.C. police, who said they are treating it as a possible hate crime.
A Washington, D.C., shop owner was punched in the face during a confrontation with a customer Tuesday.
Max Trading owner Chong Hu Lu said he was punched in the face after a customer got upset about his store’s policy of not removing the jewelry from the case and started to yell obscenities, according to a tweet posted by WRC reporter Aimee Cho on Wednesday.
ASIAN SHOP OWNER ATTACKED: Chong Hu Lu, owner of Max Trading in NE DC, says he was punched yesterday in the face by a customer. Lu says the customer got upset about the store s policy of not removing jewelry from the case and then yelled F you Chinese people, I hate you pic.twitter.com/ciUDgGEjaY Aimee Cho (@AimeeCho4) May 5, 2021