A man caught on video stomping a 65-year-old Asian woman in the head was arrested early Wednesday, according to the New York City Police Department.
Brandon Elliot, 38, was charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count each of attempted assault as a hate crime, assault and attempted assault, police said, according to NBC News.
Elliot was on lifetime parole when he was walking down West 43rd Street in midtown Manhattan, where he approached the woman, whose identity was not released, and kicked her in the stomach. Surveillance video from a building shows Elliot stomping on her head multiple times.
The assailant allegedly said, “[Expletive] you. You don’t belong here,” to the victim, according to police.
Elliot was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of his mother in 2002, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.
Elliot stabbed his mother three times in the chest in front of his 5-year-old sister. He was 19 at the time.
He was apprehended Wednesday at the Four Points by Sheraton, a hotel in midtown that was converted into a homeless shelter, according to the report.
Reports of hate crimes targeting Asians and Asian Americans have surged since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, hate crimes targeting people of Asian appearance have risen by almost 150%.
On Tuesday, the White House announced new initiatives to tackle racist abuse of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. President Joe Biden is to appoint a permanent director to lead policy coordination across the federal government.
“Across our nation, an outpouring of grief and outrage continues at the horrific violence and xenophobia perpetrated against Asian American communities, especially Asian American women and girls,” the White House said.
“As President Biden said during his first prime time address, anti-Asian violence and xenophobia is wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”
The NYPD is still searching for a man who was filmed punching and choking an Asian man on the New York City subway. The victim was choked for about 15 seconds then collapsed, according to the video posted to Twitter on Monday.
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The BLM festival crowd seems to have overplayed their “get-out-of-jail-free-card” with yet another act of their ethnic social interactions.
TILL IT STOPS working, they will never stop playing that card.
If he had stayed in prison, where he belongs, after murdering his mother, he wouldn’t be societies problem. Other than continuing to pay for his worthless existence. A real tough guy, stomping a 65 year old woman. Try that with me, tough guy.
HE should have been executed… THAT WAY he wouldn’t have to worry about being paroled where he can then STOMP others..
Ah, another product of the welfare system and another product of filthy politicians letting felons out of prison. Like blm said, they do not believe in the “nuclear family” and look at what the dissolving of the nuclear family did? Mass crime, drugs, gangs and murders in the inner cities.
They ought to hang his sorry a** and stick the ones that let him out in prison as an example of what stupid decisions get you when they cost citizens grief, loss or whatever pain they cause
But if you read the mainstream media stories only white people are racist and doing hate crimes. How can this story be true?