15-02-2022, 08:22 PM
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Though the authorities have not determined that Lee was targeted because of her ethnicity, her killing stoked fears in the city's Asian community, which was already on edge after a rise in attacks during the pandemic.
Her killing also fit a pattern that has become an unstintingly common feature of the pandemic in New York City: A seemingly unprovoked attack in which the person charged is a homeless man.
In many neighbourhoods in Manhattan, residents have expressed growing concern about homeless people, some of whom seem to be struggling with mental illness, menacing and harassing passersby.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...rder-in-us
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Though the authorities have not determined that Lee was targeted because of her ethnicity, her killing stoked fears in the city's Asian community, which was already on edge after a rise in attacks during the pandemic.
Her killing also fit a pattern that has become an unstintingly common feature of the pandemic in New York City: A seemingly unprovoked attack in which the person charged is a homeless man.
In many neighbourhoods in Manhattan, residents have expressed growing concern about homeless people, some of whom seem to be struggling with mental illness, menacing and harassing passersby.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...rder-in-us