{"id":120162,"date":"2021-04-26T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120162"},"modified":"2021-04-26T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:26:55","slug":"us-racism-attacker-kicked-and-stomped-on-asian-american-mans-head-repeatedly-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120162","title":{"rendered":"US racism: Attacker kicked and stomped on Asian American man’s head repeatedly in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NYPDPolice released surveillance images of a wanted man suspected of shoving a 61-year-old Asian man in East Harlem and repeatedly kicking his head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0A 61-year-old Asian American\u00a0man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head shortly after 8 pm on\u00a0Friday (Apr 23). He was taken to Harlem Hospital in a critical but stable condition, the New York Police Department\u00a0said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surveillance video released by the police appears to show the attacker stomping on the victim’s head. The police department’s hate crimes task force is investigating the attack, the latest in a troubling rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in New York and around the country.
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Police did not release the victim’s name, but multiple news outlets identified him as Yao Pan Ma, a former restaurant worker who lost his job because of the pandemic and was collecting cans to make ends meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim\u2019s wife, Baozhen Chen, 57, pleaded for police to find her husband\u2019s attacker in an interview with the New York Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Please capture him as soon as possible and make him pay,\u201d Chen said in Mandarin through a translator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio called the assault \u201coutrageous\u201d on Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMake no mistake, we will find the perpetrator and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d de Blasio said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday he would direct the state hate crimes task force to offer assistance in investigating Friday’s attack in East Harlem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m sickened to learn of yet another bigoted act of violence against an Asian American man,\u201d the governor said in a statement. \u201cThis is not who we are as New Yorkers, and we will not let these cowardly acts of hate against members of our New York family intimidate us.”
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The attack recalled last month’s assault near Times Square in which a woman who immigrated from the Philippines was knocked to the ground and stomped on by an attacker who shouted anti-Asian slurs. A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested in that attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US\u00a0Senate passed legislation last week aimed at fighting the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The measure would expedite the review of hate crimes at the Justice Department and provide support for local law enforcement in response to thousands of reported violent incidents in the past year. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0A 61-year-old Asian American\u00a0man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said. The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head shortly after 8 pm on\u00a0Friday (Apr 23). He was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}