In an exclusive interview, Mayor Eric Adams addresses the growing crime that has plagued New York City, and at the heart of it, Asian Americans who are often the victims.
"I have found historically the New York City Police Department, they have been reluctant in identifying hate crimes. I don't subscribe to that theory," Adams said."If we don't properly identify them, you can't properly allocate resources.
Someone punches a person with visible appearances of being a member of the AAPI community, that's no different than someone assaulting someone that's wearing Hasidic clothing as they're just walking down the street. I believe those are clear investigations that we should look at, was it a hate crime."a 59-year-old Korean man last month took the jacket off his back to cover a homeless maThe mayor said after the incident,"People are in a lot of pain.
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