China News Service, June 20. According to a comprehensive report by the Chinese website of the United States, on the 17th, a woman was arrested and accused of spraying pepper spray on four Asian women and making anti-Asian remarks in Manhattan, New York, USA. There are hate crimes.
According to New York police, the woman was named Madeleine Barker, 47, from Florida.
She is accused of pepper spraying four Asian women around 9th Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan around 6 p.m. on June 11.
In addition, Buck made xenophobic remarks about an Asian male.
Buck allegedly asked the man to take all the women back to where he came from, even though the man did not appear to be related to the four women.
Buck now faces three charges: hate crime assault, attempted hate crime assault and hate crime harassment.
The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force launched a search for Barker in recent days, tweeting her photo and explaining that she was "wanted for assault involving xenophobic speech."
The NYPD hate crime records found that about one in five recent hate crimes were directed against Asian Americans.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in attacks on the Asian Pacific American community.