{"id":5093,"date":"2020-10-09T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:05:16","slug":"nyc-asian-man-punched-and-choked-in-random-hate-crime-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5093","title":{"rendered":"NYC Asian man punched and choked in random hate crime attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5093\" class=\"elementor elementor-5093\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-40e38f8e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"40e38f8e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b943623\" data-id=\"1b943623\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f2eadd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f2eadd6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>In an unprovoked attack in the afternoon of October 4th, an Asian man was assaulted in the New York neighborhood of the Flatiron district. The 40-year-old victim was punched in the face and choked by his attacker. The attacker then hurled xenophobic slurs at the victim; the police are now investigating this as a hate crime. In just the first three months after COVID-19 was marked as the \u201cChina Virus,\u201d there were 2,100 reported cases of harassment against people of Asain descent in the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/ny-nyc-hate-crime-asian-attack-20201009-4dr7rsiuprh5roxbgq4okddpbe-story.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprovoked attack in the afternoon of October 4th, an Asian man was assaulted in the New York neighborhood of the Flatiron district. The 40-year-old victim was punched in the face and choked by his attacker. The attacker then hurled xenophobic slurs at the victim; the police are now investigating this as a hate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}