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· Carl Samson
Florida man attacks local Chinese restaurant to ‘save’ people from COVID
A Florida man allegedly attacked the owner of a Chinese restaurant with a shovel last week, claiming he needed to stop Chinese restaurants from releasing a new COVID strain in July, according to authorities. What happened: Richard Jarvis, 43, attempted to break into Pearl’s…
· Michelle De Pacina
New Jersey man flies to Florida to attack video game rival with hammer
Edward Kang, a 20-year-old man from New Jersey, was arrested for allegedly flying to Florida to attack a fellow gamer with a hammer after an online dispute in the multiplayer role-playing game “ArcheAge.” Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper reported that Kang faces an attempted…
· Michelle De Pacina
Man charged with hate crime for attacking blind Asian man in Florida found not guilty
Allan Chandler Muller, a 36-year-old man who was charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking an Asian man in Florida in 2020, was found not guilty by a Fort Walton Beach jury. The alleged hate crime: On Wednesday, Muller was acquitted of aggravated battery involving a hate…
· Carl Samson
Man wanted for shooting at woman in Florida road rage incident
PoliMce in St. Petersburg, Florida, are looking for a man who allegedly shot at a woman during a road rage incident last week. What happened: The man, who was driving a white minivan, was purportedly heading north on Dr. Martin Luther King Street North at around 9:30 p.m. on…
· Carl Samson
Florida woman accused of threatening to run over Asian American woman in racist Maine attack
A Florida woman is facing a civil rights complaint in Maine for allegedly racially attacking and threatening to run over an Asian American woman with her van earlier this month. How it started: Vicki Lush, 66, of St. Port Lucie, got into an argument with the victim at a seafood…
· Bryan Ke
Husband of woman killed in Florida parasailing crash after captain cut tether files lawsuit
The husband of a woman killed in a parasailing incident in the Florida Keys last year is suing the people he believes are to blame for her death. Key details: According to the 68-page lawsuit Srinivasrao Alaparthi filed in Monroe County Circuit Court last week, the boat’s…
· Carl Samson
‘A case of all Asians look alike’: Florida man sues police, Walmart for racial profiling, false arrest
A man from Hudson, Florida, has filed a federal suit against a Hernando County deputy, a Walmart loss prevention officer and Walmart itself for allegedly wrongfully arresting him after mistaking him for another Asian person. The arrest, which was caught in a now-viral video,…
· Ryan General
Florida woman receives life sentence following murder-for-hire plot involving FSU law professor
Katherine Magbanua, 37, was sentenced to life in prison without probation or parole, as well as two consecutive 30-year prison terms. She was convicted in May of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder. According to prosecutors,…
· Carl Samson
Manhattan DA scraps $20K bail of Florida woman held for pepper-spraying Asians, results in release
Madeline Barker, 47, was charged with 12 counts of hate crimes after allegedly pepper-spraying a group of Asian women in New York City on June 11. Nicole, one of Barker’s alleged victims, told NextShark that the then-unidentified suspect told her group of friends “Go back to the…
· Bryan Ke
Florida man drives to Space Force base to ‘warn the government’ about ‘US aliens fighting with Chinese dragons’
Corey Johnson, 29, of Ocala, Florida, was arrested on Friday for trying to get into the Patrick Space Force Base located in Brevard County using a stolen 2013 Ford F-150. According to his arrest affidavit, Johnson said he was ordered by President Biden in his head to steal the…
· Michelle De Pacina
Florida woman who pepper-sprayed Asian women in NYC indicted on hate crime charges
Madeline Barker, the 47-year-old woman accused of hurling xenophobic comments and pepper-spraying a group of four Asian women in Chelsea last month, was indicted on 12 hate crime charges on Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court. Barker was indicted on eight counts of assault in…
· Carl Samson
Florida woman charged with hate crimes, held on $20,000 bail for anti-Asian pepper spray attack
Madeline Barker, 47, has been charged with hate crimes in connection to a pepper spray attack against four Asian women in New York City’s Meatpacking District on June 11. Part of the incident was caught in a now-viral video, which shows a woman in pink threatening people around…
· Michelle De Pacina
Man killed, 3 others injured by police over stolen Pokémon cards and pizza in Florida
Two men in masks, identified as Michael Gomez and Joseph Lowe, were allegedly seen placing Pokémon cards and a pizza in a bag before walking out of a Target store in Kissimmee, Florida, last Wednesday. The Osceola County deputies opened fire in an attempted “takedown” of four…
· Michelle De Pacina
Florida man caught on video stealing local sushi restaurant’s Buddha statue
A man was caught on surveillance camera stealing a Buddha statue from a sushi restaurant in Florida. The unidentified man can be seen placing an order at the Sushi Sake restaurant in Cutler Bay. When the server walks away, the customer is seen grabbing the Buddha statue on the…
· Ryan General
Extradition considered for Florida man in China accused of child porn possession
Polk County, Florida, authorities are looking to extradite 39-year-old Jianchai Chen from China, where he is currently living with his wife and children. Chen, who has a house in Winter Haven, works at the Lucky Wok restaurant in Lake Wales when he is in the U.S. Investigators…
· Carl Samson
Florida man charged after pointing a gun, yelling anti-Asian slurs at neighbors over garbage dispute
A man accused of yelling anti-Asian slurs while threatening to kill his neighbors over a garbage dispute in Hawthorne, Fla., has been arrested and charged with assault. What happened: Cody McClure, 19, allegedly went to his neighbors’ residence on Sunday after seeing trash…
· Carl Samson
Florida man who vandalized Asian American family’s cars, threatened them as a squirrel sentenced
A man who painted racial slurs on vehicles owned by an Asian American family in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., received sentences for his hate crimes this week. What he did: Kyle Christiansen, 34, spray-painted the family’s cars with the words “Die G**k Rat” and “G**k R***rd Rat” and…
· Carl Samson
Florida Man Faces 30 Years for Vandalizing Asian American Family’s Vehicles, Sending Threatening Messages as Squirrel
A Daytona Beach, Fla., man is facing up to 30 years in prison after being convicted this week of vandalizing vehicles belonging to an Asian American family with racial slurs. What he did: Kyle Christiansen, 34, spray-painted two of the family’s vehicles and placed nails in their…
· Ryan General
‘You’re a Communist’: School Board Chairwoman Heckled During Meeting on Protective Masks in Florida
A Chinese American member of a Florida county school board was called a communist during a heated meeting about face masks last week. What happened: Santa Rosa County school board chairwoman and former science teacher Wei Ueberschaer was heckled while discussing a proposed mask…
· Carl Samson
‘Smile for This Ch*nk!’: Florida Man Hurls Racial Slurs at Asian Woman Who Asked Him to Wear a Mask
A man went on an anti-Asian tirade after being asked to wear a mask while riding a bus in Florida earlier this month. The incident, which was partially caught on video, occurred on a Miami-Dade Transit bus on the evening of March 9.