NEW YORK (WABC) Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials spoke out Tuesday about the city s renewed effort to confront hate crimes against Asians. Every community suffered, but there s been a particular pain, a particular horrible challenge, faced by the Asian American community, de Blasio said. Because on top of all the suffering from the coronavirus itself, on top of losing loved ones losing businesses, people have had to confront horrible discrimination and hatred.
The Asian Hate Crime Task Force is focusing on the entire city, but they will pay particular attention to the subways after a rash of incident in the transit system.
In an exclusive interview, CeFaan Kim talks to a woman who believes she was the victim of a violent hate crime after a random, unprovoked attack on a subway train left her bloodied and beaten.
Herbert, who is founder of the statewide organization Advocates Without Borders, emphasized that certain things in the local government need to be done in order for the streets to be safer. We don t want our police forces defunded, so that way we can get these individuals off the street, he said. We have to make sure they identify bail reform. Bail reform is good, but there s problems with it, it has to be tweaked. We are letting folks commit crimes, and they are getting a pass to get out of the jail before the ink is even dry on the complaints, only to come back to hurt somebody else. That has to stop.