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multigraincracker

(32,531 posts)
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 06:42 AM Apr 2021

Undercover Asian NYPD Officer Arrests Woman for Hate Crime After Blaming Salon Workers for COVID

https://www.yahoo.com/news/undercover-asian-nypd-officer-arrests-160439426.html



Bryan Ke
Thu, April 8, 2021, 12:04 PM
An undercover Asian officer from the New York Police Department (NYPD) has arrested a woman for hurling anti-Asian remarks at salon employees in Manhattan.

The incident happened on Tuesday on Madison Street. The woman, identified as 50-year-old Sharon Williams, was caught harassing Asian employees at a Chinatown nail salon by threatening them and blaming them for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to CBS New York.




Undercover NYPD makes first Hate Crime arrest in Chinatown. Cops say yesterday inside a nail salon 50-year-old Sharon Williams verbally harassed workers (“you brought coronavirus to this country&quot , physically threatened them...



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Undercover Asian NYPD Officer Arrests Woman for Hate Crime After Blaming Salon Workers for COVID (Original Post) multigraincracker Apr 2021 OP
Good! Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2021 #1
How the f*** does an Asian American, robbob Apr 2021 #2
especially since the strain that hit NYC a year ago NewJeffCT Apr 2021 #3
Yes. If I recall it was a white guy from New Rochelle who was the initial source of the contagion. FailureToCommunicate Apr 2021 #4
Another of the hatemongering RW pod people searching out Hortensis Apr 2021 #5
this is a older story . i had posted something like this AllaN01Bear Apr 2021 #6
sadly this is a person of color spewing hate against other people of color onetexan Apr 2021 #7

robbob

(3,514 posts)
2. How the f*** does an Asian American,
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 07:18 AM
Apr 2021

who probably has been living here for years if not decades, “bring COVID to this country”???

That fruitcake would be more on target hanging out on Wall Street yelling at random suit wearing executives.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Another of the hatemongering RW pod people searching out
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 09:02 AM
Apr 2021

people to abuse.

WaPo: Then, when a bystander intervened, she called the Asian American man “a Chinese mother f-----," according to police. But he wasn’t just another pedestrian: He was an undercover NYPD officer.


Whoops. She also reportedly called him a monkey and accused him also of bringing Covid.

Such a waste of riches. What I wouldn't give these days to have Chinatown and its markets and restaurants within walking distance. I think of food too much these days.

AllaN01Bear

(17,383 posts)
6. this is a older story . i had posted something like this
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 09:27 AM
Apr 2021

bullwinkle, yes rockey? what is the moral of the story.gee, be careful whom you yell at on the sidewalk?
beacause of the former guy allwed this stuff to be amplified , whilst for years it was in the background.
karma is lovely , isnt it?!

onetexan

(12,994 posts)
7. sadly this is a person of color spewing hate against other people of color
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 09:43 AM
Apr 2021

Common people, we need to team up and fight white nationalism, not each other . I guess ignorance knows no color.

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