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| A scene of an American young man attacking a Korean convenience store with an iron bar / Source-Youtube |
The’iron bar riot’ at Korean convenience stores in the United States is causing shock.
On the 3rd (local time), Sung Yeol-moon, the chairman of the Korean American Association of Carolina, and local media outlets reported that at 3 pm on the 30th of last month, a black young man at a convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, run by Mr. Sung, has a metal stick that looks like a pole He came in and started swinging it all.
The young man, who had knocked a shelf of cookies on the floor, struck a refrigerator, a freezer, a table, and other items at random and damaged it by swinging a metal stick.
Convenience store CCTV captured scenes of riots as well as surprised customers rushing out of the store.
While wielding a metal stick, he swears at the Mrs. and Mrs. Seong, “XX Chinese, go back to your country.”
He pulled out an energy drink from the refrigerator he broke and was arrested at the scene by the police who were dispatched. It is reported that the convenience store is located in the transit center, where police and security personnel reside nearby.
The identity of the offender was confirmed as Harvier Rash Woody-Silas (24). Police in Charlotte Mecklenburg arrested Woody-Sillas on charges of robbery, intimidation, and obstruction of public affairs with dangerous weapons, and are also considering applying the hate crime provisions.
In a telephone interview with Yonhap News, Chairman Seong emphasized that “a 100% hate crime, not robbery,” and that “Asian people should take this issue publicly and deal with it together.
This racial hatred seems to have been more blatant after the corona 19 crisis last year. Sung said Woody-Sillas’ friends came to the store after receiving US government disaster assistance and said, “Thank you, Chinese.”
It is said that during the’Iron Barrage’, his friend filmed the scene outside and sexually harassed the wife of Chairman Sung, who was clearing up the messy shop afterwards.
In this case, most of the items in the convenience store were damaged, causing property damage of at least $50,000 to 60,000 (approximately 56 million to 68 million won), according to Chairman Sung.
Enraged relatives said,’Now stop! After posting a post titled’Stop hate crimes against small Asian businessmen’, a donation of $30,000 as of the 3rd responded. Kiheon Shin, Intern Reporter