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Black woman charged with a spree of anti-Asian attacks - 4 since March

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A woman has been arrested for an allegedly attacking four Asian people over the course of several months in Queens, New York.

Maricia Bell, 25, is charged with hate crimes after allegedly attacking three women aged 75, 63 and 34 along with a 23-year-old man.

The four incidents were all separate and began on March 23 but saw Bell punch her victims or even use a metal tool as part of the alleged attack.

During the first assault, Bell is alleged to have yelled at her victim, 'Why are you talking to me?' before punching the man in a parking lot in Flushing. 

A similar assault was then committed against a 34-year-old woman inside a bodega in Pomonok on June 16.

The following month, on July 11, she is accused of hitting a 63-year-old woman in the face while the victim was walking near 72nd Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, also in in Pomonok. 

The latest incident happened early on Wednesday morning about a block away from where she is alleged to have hit a 75-year-old woman with a hammer.

Bell has been charged with a number of hate crimes together with assault, harassment and robbery, according to police.

Bell has five prior arrests including one from March for which she was charged with assault as a hate crime according to the New York Post.

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The alleged assaults are  just one of many that have targeted Asians citywide, with close to 100 anti-Asian hate crimes being reported to authorities this year, according to the NYPD with at least 260 since the start of the pandemic. 

Activists and police officials say many additional incidents were not classified as hate crimes or went unreported.  

In December 2020 an Asian Hate Crime Task Force was formed within the NYPD, to encourage victims to report the attacks.

Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, said last month that the city was working to increase communication with community leaders, creating a website to help people report and respond to attacks, and focusing subway patrols on possible bias crimes.

'If you dare to raise your hand against a member of our Asian communities, you will suffer the consequences,' he said.

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Anti-Asian hate crimes reported to police in 15 of America's largest cities and counties, rose 169%, from 32 to 86, in the first quarter of 2021 in comparison to the first quarter of 2020, according to an analysis of official preliminary data by the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism (CSHE) at California State University, San Bernardino.

For instance, Asians form 35% of San Francisco's population. In the first quarter of 2020, the number of reported hate crimes went from five to 12 which is an increase of 169%.

Similarly, 14.5% of New Yorkers are Asian. The number of filed reports went up from 13 to 42 which leads to a total of 223%.

At least 11.6% Angelenos in Greater Los Angeles Area are Asians. The number of cases has gone up from five to nine which is about 80% increase. In Boston, Asians form about 9.7% of Bostonians. Their number of reported crimes has also gone up from five to eight which is about 60%. 

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly called COVID-19 the 'Chinese virus,' and was accused of stoking hatred towards Asian-American people. 

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In March, Vilma Kari was walking to church in midtown Manhattan when Brandon Elliot, 38, approached her, knocked her to the ground and kicked her repeatedly. 

Elliot kicked her to the ground and hit her repeatedly after yelling a racial slur. He was out on parole for murdering his own mother at the time.  

In another incident in the same month in San Francisco, Xiao Zhen Xie said she was standing at a traffic crossing on Market Street on Wednesday when a man punched her in the face. 

The 76-year-old grabbed a stick to defend herself and began beating the man. She then lunged at him again while he was being taken away on a stretcher. 

In May, an Asian dad was punched in the head 14 times in an unprovoked attack while pushing his toddler's stroller through San Francisco in broad daylight.

The 36-year-old father, who identified himself as only 'Bruce', was walking his baby in Mission bay neighborhood of San Francisco on Friday afternoon when a man came up to him and punched him from behind. 

He was seen on surveillance footage getting knocked to the ground and blocking the 14 blows to his head and back as his son's stroller slowly rolls away. When his attacker backs off, the father is seen protectively running to his son's stroller while pedestrians and customers look on in shock.   

Anti-Asian tirade toward couple caught on camera in San Francisco

Bryan Ke

Fri, July 23, 2021, 8:10 AM

A couple captured a racist man on video hurling anti-Asian comments at them in San Francisco last weekend.

What happened: Albert Hsieh and Justin Erfort were walking on Market Street on Sunday around 3 p.m. when a man came at them out of nowhere and started spewing anti-Asian sentiments, according to KRON4.

• “I served this goddamned country. So I'm not racist. I don't like you f*cking Asian motherf*ckers in my country!" the man yelled, according to KTVU.

• At one point in the confrontation, the unidentified man threatened the couple physically, saying, “I'm gonna whup your f*cking a** and his f*cking worthless a**."

• Multiple bystanders were able to capture the incident on video.

• “His comments were pretty low,” Hsieh told KRON4. “He was very racially motivated so he said that Asians don’t belong in this country. He served in the Navy and events like Pearl Harbor are reasons why Asians are not welcome.”

• When one of the victims called the man “worthless,” the assailant responded with, “No your mother was worthless because she didn't abort your sorry a**."

• “Your boyfriend, you Asian piece of sh*t!" the man shouted at the victims.

• The couple, who sought refuge at a hotel, reported the incident to 911. The San Francisco Police are now investigating the case.

The aftermath: San Francisco Police Commissioner Larry Yee said the incident was a “shock” and "disturbing," adding, “It hurts my heart to see it happen in San Francisco.”

• Michael Nguyen, chair of the LGBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, said that although the incident wasn't surprising, “I'm really saddened. I hope the folks who are, the victims of that attack are getting support where they need."

• Erfort called for the city to address the root cause of the problem.

• Hsieh, who is a San Francisco native, said he was angry by what happened. “I’ve been here for over three decades and I love this city a lot but I didn’t expect that. I know that San Francisco is better than that. The attacker honestly, we just didn’t expect it. We were just minding our own business.”

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