Exclusive: Victim in brutal NYC attack on Asian woman speaks out
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A 65-year-old Asian woman is speaking exclusively to Eyewitness News after she was viciously attacked in Midtown in a horrific incident that made national headlines.
Surveillance video of the beating outraged the city and led to two doormen getting fired as they watched the assault play out in front of their building.
Police arrested a suspect who was on parole after serving 17 years in prison for fatally stabbing his own mother.
The case helped raise awareness to the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Inside the Asian American communities dealing with violent hate
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DOJ nominee Kristen Clarke defends record to senators as supporters say civil rights chief is badly needed
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DOJ nominee Kristen Clarke faces Senate as supporters say civil rights chief is badly needed
Kristen Clarke, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, heads to her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday as a groundswell of supporters says there’s an urgency for Clarke to take office and lead the team of federal prosecutors to address recent allegations of unconstitutional acts across the country, including police killings of unarmed people of color.
If Clarke, 45, is confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to lead this division since its inception in 1957.
But Clarke will first have to make it through Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, which could be filled with questions from members that could resurface controversial moments that go back as far as her undergraduate years at Harvard University where she co-authored an article that compared the genetics of Blacks and Whites and as the leader of Harvard’s Black Stu