In a society that has fought for equality and better treatment during the BLM (Black Lives Matter Movement) against racial profiling and hate towards their race; it’s confounding why they continue to hurt others and commit crimes of hate.
In the past 2+ years, news media tends to always show crimes against the black community, but refuses to show their crimes towards other races (White, Asian, Mexican).
A perfect example is the incident that took place recently on a Philadelphia subway.
Four black teenage girls were charged Thursday in an attack on a group of Asian high school students riding a train.
Philadelphia authorities spoke out and said the subway attack on the four local high school students was unprovoked and based on ethnicity.
The suspects, ages 13 to 16, were charged by the Philadelphia District Attorneys Office for aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation.
The attack was caught on video with a mobile device and handed over to authorities.
The video shows the accused girls yelling ethnic slurs at three Asian teenage boys who are also students at Central High Schoo in Philadelphia. The attackers can be heard accusing the Asian boys of jumping them and trying to throw them off the train.
“You wanna jump my people? You gettin jumped too!,”one girl said during the clip.
This attack occurred less than a month after a disturbing story about a woman being raped on a Philadelphia commuter train.
An 18 year old female Asian student, who reportedly is a senior at the Asian boys high school, can be seen trying to intervene in the verbal and physical assault on the boys. She spoke up and repeatedly asked the girls to stop.
The attackers then turned their full attention onto the Asian girl. They aggressively shoved her head against a subway door. Then they persisted to punch, stomp, and beat her with a shoe after she collapsed onto the train floor.
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority police chief Thomas Nestel told reporters, “The assault was definitely unprovoked and based on ethnicity.”
Nestel also stated, “The alleged victims testified ethnic slurs were repeated and directed at them while the girls mocked them for their heritage.”
“It’s very clear they were picked on because they were Asian,” Nestel went on to say before the interview was over.
The female victim’s aunt told reporters that the attack on her niece was “cold-blooded” while translating during the interview with her niece’s mother.
“Her daughter supported Black Lives Matter,” the aunt continued. “I want to say Asian lives also matter.”
How can people who demand respect against hate, cause so much hate themselves?
The teen girl’s family told attendees at a Chinese community center event on Friday that she is still receiving test to establish the severity of her head injury.
The train track incident is one of the latest in a surplus of anti-Asian attacks and hate crimes committed by people of other races. The attacks seemed to have surged around the same time the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
The report determined anti-Asian hate crimes in major US cities had increased 164% during the first quarter of 2021 when compared to the same period a year prior.
Complaints of anti-Asian hate in Philadelphia tripled between 2019 and 2020.
Central High School senior Charlie Zhang (17), told reporters she is a friend of the 18 year old female victim. “My school’s large Asian community has been shaken up by the attack following 18 months of virtual learning during the pandemic,” said Zhang.
“A lot of us are really struggling and traumatized. We see our friends, people who look like us, getting hurt while getting beat up,” Zhang went on to say.
Many in the Asian community are hoping this incident opens the eyes of others and brings awareness to what has been taking place.
