The person accused of striking a 29-year-old Asian man with a hammer at a Manhattan subway station while yelling anti-Asian slurs last month was indicted on hate crime charges, Manhattan District Attorney Bragg announced on Thursday.
Bragg announced hate crime charges for the attacker this week.The person accused of striking a 29-year-old Asian man with a hammer at a Manhattan subway station while yelling anti-Asian slurs last month was indicted on hate crime charges, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday.
The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on March 8, when police alleged Jeffers bumped into the victim, an Asian man who was with his wife, inside the Union Square Subway Station. Jeffers then yelled, “You can’t see me? You don’t have eyes?” and stepped on the victim’s foot, the DA said.
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