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Exclusive: Victim in brutal NYC attack on Asian woman speaks out
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A 65-year-old Asian woman is speaking exclusively to Eyewitness News after she was viciously attacked in Midtown in a horrific incident that made national headlines.
Surveillance video of the beating outraged the city and led to two doormen getting fired as they watched the assault play out in front of their building.
Police arrested a suspect who was on parole after serving 17 years in prison for fatally stabbing his own mother.
The case helped raise awareness to the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
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+ FROM facing bombs to diffusing another kind of bomb.
Journalist-turned-diplomat Elmer Cato, now the Consul General (ConGen) in New York City, may have left strife-torn, bomb-plagued foreign posts but he is in another one where there is a different kind of bomb.
The hate crime against Asians where Pinoys are also targets is one explosive issue for a diplomat, especially for a head of foreign post. For New York, it is double the headache. Double the effort. Double the fear.
If one thinks that ConGen Cato landed on a nice post where he could sit on an executive chair and just put his feet up high on the table, that may not happen. Yes, the post may seem glamorous and prestigious but it definitely comes with certain hazards.
Pepper spray, a noisemaker, and a kubotan
Amy Choi was assaulted and mugged at knifepoint in Manhattan’s West Village one morning six years ago. “I couldn’t leave the house for a few days,” she recalled in an essay for Shondaland. “I couldn’t walk alone for weeks.”
But Choi, who is 41 and lives in Brooklyn, said that attack and the trauma that followed did not spur her to buy any self-defense items. Rather, it was the recent string of crimes against women of Asian descent that made her feel more unsafe than ever, convincing her she needed to take steps to protect herself. She now carries around a kubotan, a pointy self-defense tool about the size of a pen, and a loud alarm button recommended by a self-defense instructor she worked with last month.
Their parents worked hard for a good life in the US, but now they’re in danger of being attacked over coronavirus stereotypes. The kids won't tolerate any of it.