Current Events > Woman tells Asian Women to go back your country then pepper sprays them in NYC

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https://abc7ny.com/asian-women-pepper-spray-hate-crime-meatpacking-district/11956627/

The NYPD is looking for a woman, in what could be a hate crime, after she was seen squirting pepper spray at a group of young Asian women on Saturday. The victims were four young women in their 20's from Queens, who have experienced anti-Asian racism, but nothing like this. A woman sitting in a public plaza in the Meatpacking District on Saturday, hurled hateful language at the young women and then blasted them with pepper spray for no reason. Three of the four victims of that attack spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News reporter Sonia Rincoln, but asked that they remain nameless and not be shown on camera. They say they were enjoying a warm Saturday afternoon catching up with friends and checking out the flower installations in the Meatpacking District. That's when a stranger, who had her back to them sitting on one of the large stones on 9th Avenue, picked an argument. "She turned around and she was like, 'you guys are trying to harass me,'" one victim said. "I said, we're not trying to bother you," another victim said. One of the victims said she even apologized to the suspect. "Like I'm sorry, I didn't intend to make you feel that way," the victim said. The group started recording when the woman unleashed a racist tirade and pulled out a can of pepper spray. "Saying like, go back to where you came from, you don't belong here," one victim said. "She pointed to an Asian bystander who was a man, we didn't know who he was, pointed at him and said take your (expletive) back to your country." "We distanced ourselves, we tried to do the right thing," another victim said. The women and at least one bystander recorded as much of the bizarre incident as they could, despite feeling the burn of the pepper spray on their faces and in their eyes. "It was so painful. I couldn't open my eyes for about 30 minutes," one victim said.

It turns out the four women attacked on Saturday may not have been the only ones. One of them later got a message from someone who said she got the same treatment from the same woman at the same location less than an hour earlier. In that case, they say the woman pepper sprayed and verbally abused three people, including a 13-year-old girl. "Learning that she did this to other people, including a minor? That's not ok. She needs to be caught," one of the victims said. They say as life-long New Yorkers, they're well aware of anti-Asian hate crimes and have had their guards up, but didn't see this coming "It's not like we haven't had racist remarks towards us growing up, but this was like the first time we've ever felt it to this physical extent," one victim said.

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What a shit stain

Turbam posted...

What a shit stain

Fecal matter is not this disgusting.

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

That one dude is just casually leaning against a car as it happens too. Those NYC types sure a jaded af. Nothing phases them, not even being mere inches away from pepper spray.

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

Bystander effect.

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen?

It's New York.

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

Most of the time, it is not worth it to intervene because you dont know if the perpetrator has a gun or a knife that will kill you

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

That is the current generation for you. Anyone remember this from last week so many cameras lol.

https://twitter.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1534294339391741954

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

The simple answer is that intervening when someone is being assaulted makes you the new target, whereas recording them means you have evidence to hand over to the police. I can say with confidence that if I had a choice between simply taking a video of someone being pepper sprayed or stepping up and volunteering to be the next one who gets pepper sprayed, I'm gonna stay back and take the video

I feel like these stories always end with the racist running off and nobody stopping them. Someone in the crowd should have tackled her

Zikten posted...

I feel like these stories always end with the racist running off and nobody stopping them. Someone in the crowd should have tackled her

Laying hands on a woman usually doesn't end well, for men.

It must be scary to be Adian in New York Jesus christ.

Im a bit confused why is it only Asians whose existence get them attacked. You rarely see this happen with black or Latinos. Them walking down the street and getting punched in the face or like this story where their existence was enough to get pepper sprayed.

Is it still COVID related or it something else?

ChopinList posted...

Im a bit confused why is it only Asians whose existence get them attacked. You rarely see this happen with black or Latinos. Them walking down the street and getting punched in the face or like this story where their existence was enough to get pepper sprayed.

Is it still COVID related or it something else?

You already forgot about the mass shooting in Buffalo?

A_Good_Boy posted...

You already forgot about the mass shooting in Buffalo?

I actually did damn. That was like 6 mass shootings ago.

I mean what are people supposed to do other than call the police? Decking the old bitch isn't gonna go over well.

That is so sad that Asian woman apologized to the racist. When the racist was the wrong person.

Disgusting

justaguy3492 posted...

I mean what are people supposed to do other than call the police? Decking the old bitch isn't gonna go over well.

Calling the police isn't terribly helpful though, they either won't care enough to show up, or they'll attack the victims themselves.

Lyrica posted...

What I will never understand is why there are people standing around doing nothing and just allowing this to happen? If you can record this, you can intervene.

I'll never understand comments like his when everyone in our country knows there will be outrage and public AND legal retalitation against men who physically engage women no matter the circumstance. Men are attacked, shamed, doxed, etc. for protecting their own fucking wife from getting attacked if that attacker is another(or several) woman. You expect men the "handle" some random bitch, because she is beefing with four other random bitches who could actually just walk away?

Make it make sense. The men not doing anything make perfect sense though.