Pepper spray, a noisemaker, and a kubotan
Amy Choi was assaulted and mugged at knifepoint in Manhattan’s West Village one morning six years ago. “I couldn’t leave the house for a few days,” she recalled in an essay for Shondaland. “I couldn’t walk alone for weeks.”
But Choi, who is 41 and lives in Brooklyn, said that attack and the trauma that followed did not spur her to buy any self-defense items. Rather, it was the recent string of crimes against women of Asian descent that made her feel more unsafe than ever, convincing her she needed to take steps to protect herself. She now carries around a kubotan, a pointy self-defense tool about the size of a pen, and a loud alarm button recommended by a self-defense instructor she worked with last month.
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New York City mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang was jeered and called pro-cop Tuesday evening while at a bicycle protest over the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man fatally shot by a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb over the weekend.
Yang, a Democrat, arrived at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan with about 150 cyclists when some among the protesters heckled the one-time presidential candidate through a megaphone, according to video obtained by the New York Post. Do not use our protest for your publicity, a woman said. We don’t want you here. You’re pro-cop.
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Woman Accused of Using Racial Slurs, Blaming COVID on Chinatown Salon Workers in New York
On 4/7/21 at 2:12 PM EDT
A woman in New York City has been arrested after she was accused of using racial slurs and blaming the coronavirus on salon workers in Chinatown.
Sharon Williams, 50, was arrested at a nail salon on Madison Street on Tuesday afternoon. Police said she used slurs and threatened physical violence on the people inside. She reportedly told them, You brought the corona to this country.
Williams was allegedly harassing another Asian person outside the Manhattan salon when a plain-clothes officer, who is Asian, intervened and stopped the attack. Williams allegedly then began insulting the officer, as well, calling him a monkey and a Chinese motherf -, according to police officials.
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