An Asian convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, was hit by a man sitting with a metal post and shouting racial remarks.
CHARLOTTE – According to police and a son of the store’s owners, a store owned in Asia, in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a man who sat with a metal post and scolded races, is in asylum brought.
The footage showed a man pulling a trading rack on the floor and swinging a street nameplate into the fridge’s glass. A man who appears to a friend of the attacker encourages him.
The attack took place on Tuesday in a store called Plaza Sundries, which is in the city center near Charlotte’s main transportation center. And it comes 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 massage parlors in Atlanta. Six of the victims were women of Asian descent.
Despite the increase in attention to such attacks, the violence and the language-based language were 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, look at the mess.’ Look at the supervision. Submit the (police) report. ‘
The pandemic fueled the tension, the couple said. Some people blame the coronavirus on the owners of the store. They have been living in the US for decades since moving out of South Korea.
“It looks like, ‘Hey, you’re different,’ ‘Lee Sung said, presenting a summary of the insults. ” Of course you can not come from here. Go back to your country. ‘”
But the owners have experienced a different sentiment since the attack: a woman arrived at the store and gave the soup to the owners. A deliveryman of the pizza arrived with five pies. A local doctor dropped off a check. More than $ 30,000 was raised by GoFundMe to cover the store’s damage.
“My in-laws are more shocked that people really care than for the (attack),” Lee Sung said. “And it took them a while to process why they were getting so much attention.”
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say a company responsible for security at the transit center has arrested Xavier Rashee Woody-Silas, reports The Charlotte Observer. According to public records, he was arrested for robbery with a dangerous weapon, to communicate threats, disorderly conduct, injury to personal property and the resistance of a public official. It is unclear whether he has appointed a lawyer who can comment on his behalf.
Hate crimes nationwide against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders increased by 150% during the pandemic, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
The outpouring of support for the owners of the store makes them “feel”, Lee Sung said of her in-laws.
“My mother-in-law can not stop crying every time someone says, ‘I’m so sorry about what you’re going through,’ she said. “It’s just a reminder that – wow, things should not be that way.”
But the family is wary of moving forward.
“She’s scared too because she’s not used to all this attention,” Mark Sung said of his mother. ‘So, she’s nervous, too. … We’re just trying to be careful. ‘