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Molly Dolt <fag@null.net> wrote:

The rush to insult Asians by bigoted queers is totally amusing.

A woman who allegedly made anti-Asian remarks and pepper-sprayed
four people in New York City last weekend was arrested and
charged with hate crimes, police said Friday.

Madeline Barker, 47, was charged with two counts of assault as a
hate crime, two counts of attempted assault as a hate crime and
four counts of harassment as a hate crime, the New York Police
Department said.

CNN was not immediately able to identify an attorney for Barker,
who is from Merritt Island, Florida, according to the NYPD. CNN
reached out to the Legal Aid Society to determine whether it's
representing her.

The attack, which was investigated by the NYPD Hate Crime Task
Force, happened June 11 in Manhattan's Meatpacking District and
was partially caught on video.

The video released by police showed a woman brandishing what
appeared to be pepper-spray. The woman then proceeded to pepper-
spray four women during the altercation, the NYPD said. The
women refused medical attention, according to an earlier news
release from police.

At some point during the altercation, not captured in the video
that the NYPD released, an unidentified Asian man passed the
group on the sidewalk, NYPD Sergeant Anwar Ishmael told CNN. The
woman allegedly turned to him and said, "You take all your
b***hes back to where you came from," Ishmael said.

Ultimately, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office will
determine what charges Barker will face.

Hate crimes, including those against Asians in the US, have seen
a sharp increase in recent years. The Covid-19 pandemic sparked
attacks against Asians amid online and political rhetoric
stigmatizing them, but this category of hate crime is often
underreported.

Between March 31, 2021, and March 31, 2022, 110 of 577 hate
crime incidents targeted Asians, according to the NYPD Hate
Crimes Dashboard. In March 2022 alone, there were nine incidents
treated as hate crimes targeting Asian Americans, with five
arrests.

In 2020, attacks targeting Asians nationally spiked to 279 from
161 in 2019, according to the FBI hate crime report.

And despite the concerning increase in such crimes, a small
percentage of reported attacks against Asians end up in
convictions.

A report from the Asian American Bar Association of New York
found that of the 233 reported attacks against Asian Americans
in New York City in the first three quarters of 2021, seven led
to hate crime convictions as of late May.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/woman-charged-with-hate-crimes- after-allegedly-attacking-4-people-with-pepper-spray-and-making- anti-asian-remarks-in-nyc-1.5952988

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