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An Asian-owned convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, was trashed by a man who wielded a metal post and yelled racial slurs, according to police and a son of the store's owners.
Surveillance footage shows a man pulling a merchandise rack to the floor and swinging a street sign post into the glass of the refrigerators. A man who appears to a friend of the attacker cheers him on.
The attack occurred Tuesday at a store called Plaza Sundries that is downtown near Charlotte's main transit hub. And it falls in the wake of an attack on a woman of Asian descent in New York City and the fatal shooting of eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses. Six of those victims were women of Asian descent.
Despite the increase in attention on such attacks, the violence and racially charged language was nothing new, said Mark Sung, whose parents own the store, and his wife Grace Lee Sung.
When my husband got the call (about the attack), it was like a routine, Lee Sung said. He was like, Okay, check the mess. See the surveillance. File the (police) report."
The pandemic has fueled the tension, the couple said, with some people blaming the coronavirus on the store's owners. They have lived in the U.S. for decades since moving from South Korea.
It's like, Hey, youre different,' Lee Sung said, offering a sanitized summary of the insults. You obviously cant be from around here. Go back to your country.'
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Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Glad they arrested this scum.
Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)SunImp
(2,224 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A robber trashed a convenience store at the Charlotte Transit Center and allegedly yelled racial slurs at the stores Asian American owners during broad daylight. Police arrested a man, but it isnt bringing peace to the victims.
Mark Sung says his parents, Joyce and Mun Sung, have owned Plaza Sundries convenience store in the Charlotte Transit Center since it opened in 1995. On Tuesday afternoon, a man came into the convenience store with a metal bar and began damaging store merchandise and equipment. Sung, says he and another man yelled racial slurs at Sungs family.
Hes a regular, Sung said. But that day he just walks in the store with a metal pole. No one sees it at first until he starts hitting things with it.
His friend came towards the end, stuck his head through the door and said Thats what you get. Thats what you get you Chinese motherf******.
https://www.wbtv.com/2021/04/02/we-just-want-be-left-alone-peace-asian-american-owned-business-robbed-trashed-charlotte-transit-center/
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Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Did he just wake up that day and think let me go wreck some hard-working familys store? What a fucking loser.