Madeline Barker, 47 – who is being held on $ 20,000 bail in Rikers Island after being charged with assault and hate crime late Saturday – should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible for the latest anti-Asian Big Apple incident. said the leaders. However, other measures need to be taken to ensure that such hate attacks do not recur, including that authorities take each of these crimes more seriously, they said. “Any accusations against Madeline Barker are welcome, but I think more needs to be done,” said Brian Chin of the Alliance for Conservation and Improvement. “In order for people to start feeling safe again and for tourists to want to return to our city, a strong and clear message must be sent,” Lee said. “If you accidentally and maliciously attack someone because of the color of their skin, the shape of their eyes or because they are looking for a foreign language, the full extent of the law will condemn you.” Barker claimed that her incident at Chelsea took place after the women’s team started “harassing” her on June 11. Madeline Barker has been charged with hate crimes for allegedly spraying four women with pepper and participating in an anti-Asian riot in Chelsea on June 11, 2022.William Miller She allegedly shouted, “Go back to where you came from!” and, “Go back to your country!” before police say they started spraying pepper on women. Barker, who lives on Merritt Island in Florida, will return to court on Thursday. The five municipalities have been plagued by a series of anti-Asian attacks since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, including transit attacks. “These perpetrators must be held accountable for their dangerous behavior,” ACPB President Susan Lee, a former city council candidate, told The Post on Sunday. Barker claims that the women initially harassed her before spraying them. DCPI Jacky Wong of the Greater Chinatown Civic Association added that the city must do more to prevent such acts and protect victims, adding that Barker’s bust is “just the tip of an iceberg.” “Many cases of violence have not been reported and are being reported because law enforcement and elected officials do not take them seriously enough,” Wong said. “With crime against Asia still rampant in New York City, many Chinatown seniors [would] they prefer to be hungry rather than go shopping because they do not want to be harassed. “Asian women are taking defense classes. “Parents are worried that their children are being targeted in playgrounds because of their race,” he said. “[Yet] “We have not seen any effective solution from the government to anti-Asian violence.”
