In November of last year, a Korean couple walking on the street in Tacoma, Washington, USA, was assaulted by a teenager. A youth in a red jacket is approaching a Korean couple. Twitter capture
Amidst racial discrimination crimes against Asians in the United States recently, it was belatedly known that a Korean couple was assaulted by teens in Tacoma, Washington, USA in November of last year.
According to CNN broadcast on the 3rd (local time), the Tacoma police arrested a 15-year-old boy for assaulting an Asian couple and charged with second-degree assault. The incident took place on November 19 of last year, but it is believed that the suspect was arrested late as a video of the assault scene at that time spread on the social network service (SNS) recently.
According to the local Korean media, Seattle Newsn, Korean A was walking with his wife on Tacoma S 19 Street and S Taylor Street, behind a grocery store at about 4:45 pm on the day of the incident. At this time, four people, two teenage men and two women, came out of the fence, and among them, the 15-year-old black perpetrator in question ran to the victim, A Korean man, and bumped into it deliberately.
In the video, a boy in a red jacket and black pants ran towards a Korean couple walking down the street and punched. Even though the victim shouted “Please help,” he continued to assault. Another youth is watching it from the side.
Mr. A said in a police investigation, “The teenage boy in question deliberately approached and bumped into it and then ran over my leg and fell.” Mr. A asked,’Is it okay,’ helping the boy to get up when he fell, and the boy who got up from his seat struck Mr. A for nothing.
Mr. A said, “At the time, I was assaulted by a teenager, and my ribs were broken and my face was injured, so I had to stand and work as a cook often, but it was difficult for a couple of months.” Mr. A said in an interview with CNN that he forgave the perpetrators, but said, “I want to properly investigate incidents of violence targeting Asians.”
Police filed a report of the incident at the time, but were not sure if the video was the same as the reported incident. Wendy Hado of the Tacoma Police Department said that only after the victim’s relative found out that the person in the video he saw on the news was Mr. A, the two cases were the same.
According to Seattle Newsn, the Tacoma police said, “The video shows a scene where one of the teens said’Gotcha’,” but Pierce County prosecutors suspected that the suspects were unable to capture evidence of racist words and actions. On charges of second-degree assault.
The perpetrator, who was 15 years old at the time of the assault last year, was imprisoned in a juvenile detention center.
On the other hand, Tacoma is near Seattle, where many Koreans have lived there since there are military units. In the past, it is known that many Koreans who run stores or do business have been assaulted and even killed.
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