An 83-year-old Asian American woman was spit on and punched so hard she blacked out, police say

[dalton99a]

Source: Washington Post

Authorities in White Plains, N.Y., arrested a man they say spit on and punched an 83-year-old Korean American woman on a busy street in the New York City suburb this week, marking the latest high-profile case in a spate of violence targeting Asian Americans nationwide.

The victim was walking alone near a shopping center Tuesday evening when police say Glenmore Nembhard, 40, attacked her without provocation, striking her so hard that she hit her head on the ground and blacked out. When she regained consciousness, the man was gone, according to police.

It wasn’t immediately clear how investigators identified Nembhard as her assailant, but police said they arrested him early Thursday morning in the vicinity of the attack. He was charged with second-degree assault on a person 65 or older, a felony that carries up to seven years in prison. Police described him as homeless, and court records show he has been arrested by White Plains officers on at least four other occasions in the past year.

Officials have not commented on what role race may have played in the attack, but Westchester District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah said her office was investigating whether the beating constituted a hate crime.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/13/asian-american-attack-white-plains/

[Lonestarblue]

1. I hope he does go to prison for this attack.

And the blame can be laid on Trump, who just last week again used “China virus” in a communication. He just keeps egging on the hate.

[JI7]

2. So fucked up

[Joinfortmill]

3. Well, he's soon to have a new home - in prison.

[MineralMan]

4. Utterly Deplorable!

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Arrested FOUR previous times in the past YEAR and out again?!? Also, although White Plains IS

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... a suburb of NYC, it really is more city than sleepy suburb.

Downtown WP is very covered by surveillance cameras, being the county seat with many corporate headquarters and county and state court buildings.

(Edited to fix facts.)

[Dr. Strange]

9. Um...

Must be a white guy.

From the article:

Police described him as a homeless Black male, and court records show he has been arrested by White Plains officers on at least four other occasions in the past year.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Thanks. Fixed. That fact must've been in the article behind the paywall.

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[Steelrolled]

13. Even if it is not a white guy this time,

it normally is. You know how they are. /s

[MAJones]

6. Right Wingers are so brave.

They look for women and kids to attack. Old people are easy too. I'm surprised they don't prowl day cares and nursing homes looking for people to punch. They are all filled with trumpian bravery.

[MosheFeingold]

15. Is this one of them

New fangled black white supremecists?

Seriously, I didn’t catch mention of race or politics in the article, so you’re making quite a leap. Could be the attacker was an Orthodox Jewish Democrat.

More to the point, the increase in attacks in Asians has been largely driven by black attackers. Excepting one attack in a SAMs in west Texas somewhere, I don’t recall much in the way of white on Asian hate crimes.

[Bayard]

7. He's homeless

Could be he has some mental issues that have nothing to do with race or politics.

Although, with a name like, Glenmore Nembhard, who knows?

[Blue Owl]

8. Unbelievable

Only the most deplorable, lowest form of cowardly assholes pick on the elderly...

[AllaN01Bear]

11. id have the right to go full crakatoa on that individual as that is assult .

[Bengus81]

12. Seven fucking years?? This isn't random it's a HATE crime

[Duppers]

14. He needs to be locked away before he kills

Someone.

That poor lady. 😥