Assault of Asian family on NYC subway investigated as hate crime after cellphone video goes viral



An assault against an Asian family on a New York City subway is being investigated as a possible hate crime after video of the altercation went viral on social media.

The altercation was captured by a woman who was riding the F Train on Thursday and wanted to document the assault.

Joanna Lin told WCBS-TV that a woman made anti-Asian remarks at the family of Sue Young, who was visiting New York from Reno, Nevada, with her husband and their 11-year-old twin girls.

Young said that the trio of teenagers started pointing and laughing at her family, and they responded by laughing as well, in an attempt to defuse the situation. Instead, the altercation worsened.

"It escalated very quickly," Young said.

One of the teenagers turned her attention to Lin after she saw that the woman was recording the interaction.

"She ran over, grabbed me by the hair, threw me on the ground and started punching me several times," Lin said.

Young reacted by pushing one of the teenagers out of the way, but she then physically attacked Young.

"My glasses got broken. I've had headache for a couple of days now because my hair was pulled and so my scalp was very tender," Young told WCBS-TV.

After the attack, bystanders helped the two women get to safety.

"Anger is such a disease," continued Lin. "It's hard to control how you feel, but you can control how you react to it. And if families could teach their children this at a younger age, I think there will be less fights and less bullying."

The investigation has been taken up by the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force.

The victims, however, said the incident didn't rise to the level of a hate crime, though they did think it was criminal.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul denounced the attack in a brief statement.

"This woman had no reason to be attacked, whatsoever," said the Democrat. "There's no tolerance for this in the state of New York."

Here's more about the viral assault:

Disturbing video shows attack on F train in Manhattan www.youtube.com

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San Francisco Chronicle torched over article decrying  'disinformation' about attacks on Asians



The San Francisco Chronicle was torched online by many who criticized an article focusing on disinformation about attacks on people of Asian descent instead of the brutal attacks themselves.

The Chronicle reported on a study claiming that some social media accounts are trying to push a political agenda by using the attacks on Asians to criticize media coverage and Democratic politicians.

The report claimed that the motivation behind the campaign was to distract Asian-Americans from hate crimes perpetrated by whites.

If you’re wondering why they would do that, consider that San Francisco data from the FBI show white people are largely behind local hate crimes, and a national report by Janelle Wong, a professor of American and Asian American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, shows white people are largely behind the reported hate crimes throughout the U.S.

Many on social media lambasted the report for what they saw as political bias.

"Most media coverage of this issue is awful. You would be more informed about it if you literally consumed no media and just spoke to people in your local Chinatown association," tweeted journalist Zaid Jilani.

"The problem isn’t the crimes but rather about discussing them? Should Asian Americans not be alerted to be on guard, to guard their most vulnerable, ie the women and elderly who are the preferred targets? They should get no warning? No opportunity to safeguard?" read one response.

"So, its people posting crime statistics on Twitter that are the problem and not the thugs attacking Asians every day in San Francisco? Why don't you ever care about the people getting attacked?" asked one detractor.

"The report claims to be about disinformation but is itself disinformation," responded one critic.

"Maybe stop the violence against Asian Americans before blowing smoke about social media. Just a thought," replied another detractor.

A report at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 said that many Asian-Americans were purchasing guns in order to protect themselves from racist attacks. Some in the liberal media have tried to blame former President Donald Trump's rhetoric against China during the pandemic for attacks on Asians.

Here's more about the attacks on Asians:

Rise in AAPI hate crimes has many Asian Americans feeling under attackwww.youtube.com