A 70-year-old woman was brutally beaten on a bus in the area of Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, Apparently because the attacker believed she was Asian, even though she is Mexican American, relatives said.
A 23-year-old woman was arrested after the incident. According to the son of the victim, Her mother received racial insults, thinking that by her characteristics she was Asian. According to the relative, no one on the bus intervened to stop the beating.
Los Angeles police said they are still collecting information about him accidentBut a department spokesman confirmed that Yasmine Beasley, 23, was arrested after the incident.
The attacker will face charges related to a racial hatred crime and an abuse charge with injuries to an elderly person, KNBC said.
The woman, identified only as Becky, was trying to get off the 81 bus at Lloma Road and Figueroa Street. He was heading to the Vons supermarket, his son told The Eastsider.
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Another passenger, who was described as a black woman between the ages of 25 and 30, called her racial insults. The victim is Mexican-American. She and her family, longtime residents of Highland Park, are confused with Asians, her son said.
The victim was attacked and injured by the passenger and was eventually dragged from the back of the bus to the front, according to her family member. The attack only ended when a passenger called 911.
The victim was taken to hospital, where he remained for 24 hours, and then discharged. His son said he has difficulty walking. Her leg was badly injured in the incident, aggravating a pre-existing condition of lupus arthritis and other ailments, the medium said.
“She was very beaten. Her eyes were closed, her whole face swollen, she was all beaten, very badly, and the young woman [atacante] I wanted to rip my mother’s hair out, ”the victim’s son said.
In March, a fierce attack on an Asian-American woman near Times Square in New York City sparked widespread condemnation and alarms over the inability of passers-by to intervene amid a wave of violence against Asians across the United States.
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The rise in violence has been linked in part to erroneous blame for the coronavirus and former President Donald Trump’s use of racially charged terms such as “Chinese virus.” This year in New York City there have been 33 hate crimes with an Asian victim as of March, police said. There were 11 such attacks at the same time last year.
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