Update: The following is an excerpt from the New York Post:
A woman charged in a string of anti-Asian hate crimes in Queens was ordered held behind bars without bail Saturday.
Maricia Bell, 25, told police she was at the scene of the four attacks, which began on May 23 and ended Wednesday, when she allegedly hit a 75-year-old woman in the back of the head with a hammer, according to the criminal complaint against her.
Police showed Bell a photo of the last victim, who was taken to the hospital and needed seven staples to close the wound.
“I was there. She was begging for money. I hit her,” Bell told police, according to the complaint.
The woman, like all of the victims, was Asian American.
Read the rest of the New York Post article here.
Original article by SharylAttkisson.com below:
Two more black men have been arrested in New York City in connection with unprovoked attacks; one on an Asian man and another on a police detective.
Authorities say ex-con Jarrod Powell was caught on camera stomping 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma in the head as Ma was collecting cans. Caution: the video is brutal.
Separately, police say Akeele Morgan walked up behind a New York police detective and hit him in the head with a stick.
The original article follows:
Another African-American man has been arrested in an Asian hate crime in New York City.
Police say Juvian Rodriguez began hurling insults at an undercover Asian police officer saying, “Go back to China before you end up in a graveyard!” and “I’m gonna slap the holy piss out of you and stab you in the face.” Rodriguez was arrested and quickly released.
Meantime, an Hispanic man charged with trying to shove an Asian undercover cop onto subway tracks was also released without bail without bail today with the judge proclaiming “My hands are tied” under New York City bail reform rules.
Ricardo Hernandez faces three hate crime charges in the attack on a police officer on a train platform in Long Island. Police say he has at least 12 prior arrests under his belt. Hernandez reportedly approached the Asian undercover police officer and tried to push him on the subway tracks saying, “That’s why you people are getting beat up…I got nothing to lose..I will f–k you up!”
Courtesy: CBS 2 New York
Previous reporting follows:
A new arrest in a five-month-old hate crime against an Asian couple in Washington State makes the fifth time in a week an African-American male has been implicated in possible hate crimes.
Police say a 15-year old African-American teenager is charged with second-degree assault in Tacoma. They have not released his name.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, police have charged an African-American man, Xavier Rashee Woody-Silas, for allegedly violently trashing a convenience store with his friend yelling racial insults at the Asian-American owners.
One of the store owners said of the attack, captured on surveillance video, “he just walks in the store with a metal pole. No one sees it at first until he starts hitting things with it. …His friend came towards the end, stuck his head through the door and said ‘That’s what you get. That’s what you get you Chinese motherf******.’”
convenience store owned by Asian-Americans
On Saturday, New York police released the photo of an African-American man who allegedly committed a crime against an Asian woman and her children on the subway.
Authorities say the suspect used anti-Asian slurs and spit at the Asian family, then “knocked the victim’s cellular phone out of her hand and proceeded to kick it out of the back door of the subway car, onto the tracks as the train was still moving.”
hate crime against an Asian family in New York City
Earlier in the week, also in New York, police filed hate crime charges against another African-American male in a brutal attack against an Asian woman. Police say 38-year old Brandon Elliot had previously stabbed his mother to death.
And on Friday, an African-American man, Noah Green, allegedly ran over two white police officers at the U.S. Capitol, killing one of them.
Green, reported to be linked to the radical Nation of Islam Muslim group, was shot on the scene when he allegedly jumped out of his car and lunged at police with a knife. He later died. Police have not speculated as to whether he may have targeted his two victims because they were police or because of race.
Officer Billy Evans was killed. The second officer, Kenny Shaver, was released from the hospital Sunday.
In the Tacoma arrest of the unidentified teen, videos apparently recorded by at least two attackers shows one of them lunging at and punching the couple while the woman screams out. In another clip, the person recording the video is cussing and lunging at the Asian man, and using racial slurs.
The Asian man, 56, reportedly suffered a broken rib. He told KIRO-TV that he “filed a complaint about the Nov. 19 attack the same day, but heard nothing from police. More than four months later, a family member identified the couple in the viral video of the incident when it was played on local news.”
The man told reporters he forgives his attacker.
“I want him to be better. I want him to know this is bad.”
No word on whether police are still looking for the second teenager involved.
