Vivian Dang told ABC News she hopes she can encourage others to speak out.
Transit police in Boston announced the arrest of a 16-year-old male in connection to an alleged racially motivated assault on a woman of Asian descent on the Red Line near the JFK/UMass stop in an incident that was caught on tape.
Police said that the group of juveniles "smashed out" the train window and fled and shared pictures of the broken glass in a post on "X", the platform formerly known as Twitter. While the police did not name the victim or victims in this incident or indicate their ethnicity, part of the incident was captured on video by Vivian Dang -- a woman of Asian descent -- who identified herself as a victim in an interview with ABC News on Thursday.
But then the group followed her to the next cart, according to Dang, and "that's when they started to pick on me," she said, "because they realized that I had moved carts to, you know, avoid them." Asked what compelled her to speak out, Dang said while she initially wanted to "stay quiet" and just go home, it was the woman who spoke up for her on the train who encouraged her to speak with the police who arrived on the scene.
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