Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
The New York Police Department is investigating an attack on a Columbia University staff member who says he was struck in the head and had xenophobic remarks shouted at him last week near campus. Ben Chang, the university’s spokesperson and vice president for communications, was on his way to work on June 17 when a man approached him just a few blocks from school, began yelling at him and hit him with a metal water bottle, according to the NYPD.
We don’t get much more American and apple pie. And that’s jarring.” Chang, 52, said the confrontation was unprompted, that he didn’t speak to the man or bump into him. As the man yelled at him, Chang said he attempted to ignore him and kept walking, but the man then struck him anyway. Chang said he tried to escape by getting on a passing bus, helped by a passenger and the bus driver, but the man continued shouting at him from outside.
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