“There is a whole wave of attacking elderly people in different ways, one New York legislator says. On March 19, 2021, hundreds of people packed into Union Square during an Asian American Federation peace vigil following the shootings in Atlanta. Hiram Alejandro Durán/ THE CITY By CHRISTINE CHUNG, THE CITY, and Weihua Li
The security videos of the March incident stunned New Yorkers and resonated far beyond. They showed an older Asian woman, shoved to the ground, then kicked in the body and stomped in the head by an assailant.
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