Authorities said police in New York City arrested Jarrod Powell, the man accused of beating a 61-year-old Asian man late last week in East Harlem.
Powell, 49, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with attempted murder and two counts of assault as a hate crime, the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force said.
Powell was arrested days after the police department released security surveillance video of the Friday attack, in which a man is seen throwing Chinese immigrant Ma Yao Pan to the ground before repeatedly stomping on his head and then walking away.
Ma’s family said he has been in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator at a New York hospital since the attack.
State Assemblyman Ron Kim with other politicians and community leaders, including Ma’s family and their attorneys, gathered Tuesday afternoon at the site of the attack to collectively call for hate directed at Asians to stop.
“As New Yorkers, we shouldn’t tolerate it,” Kim said. “We come here to say, stop targeting, scapegoating and killing Asian Americans.”
Ma Yao Pan, beaten in NYC for being Chinese.
Stop AAPI Hate, a group that tracks and responds to hate incidents against this demographic, released a report stating between March 19, 2020, and Feb. 28 it had received 3,795 reports of anti-Asian hate incidents nationwide, including incidents of physical assault, verbal harassment and discrimination.
Another report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University published last month found anti-Asian hate crime in 16 of the United States’ largest cities had increased by 149% in 2020 compared to a year earlier with New York City experiencing a surge of 833%.
Following Ma’s attack on Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was “sickened to learn of yet another bigoted act of violence against an Asian American man.”
“This is not who we are as New Yorkers, and we will not let these cowardly acts of hate against members of our New York family intimidate us,” he said in a statement. “We stand united with the Asian American community, which has always been an important part of our diverse identity as a state.”
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NYPD Arrests Suspect Accused Of Beating Asian Man In Harlem
#1. Why is it important that he was an asian man?
#2. It is important that the man being beaten was 61-year-old.
#3. Will this Black man be treated as if he were a White man beating a 61 year old Black man?
#4. Will this be a reason for the Blacks to riot, burn and loot?
SINE when have they needed a reason to act like rabid animals!
Another white supremacist Trump supporter hate crime against Asians, and this time done by so fanatical a racist that he disguised his evil caucasian self as a person of color!
AND you can bet, not one leftist media outlet will DARE MENTION He was black.. OR even say “WE suspect he did it out of hate”.
We all know that this poor black man did what he did because Trump made him do it. THAT will be the story line we’ll be fed if it ever gets into the Lame Stream Media that the “accused” is black.
IT is always ‘someone else or something else’ to blame, for them acting like rabid animals..
Funny how UPI doesn’t mention the race of the attacker. From the picture he appears to be non-white. If he were a white man that would be mentioned in the headline and several times in the article. Along with a paragraph on the rise of white extremist. But he wasn’t white so nothing to see here. Move on.
Send him to a Chinese prison.
Na. Send him to Singapore.. LET HIM learn first hand, what a public spanking is..
Our wonderful 13%ers at it again.
“This is not who we are as New Yorkers” states Cuomo. On the contrary, you Cuomo and de Blasio let criminals run wild in the streets. Oh, and who are the perpetrators of crimes, murders and rapes? It is not those of us that are Conservative. It is liberals that commit crimes in society.
AND since the leftists PUT IN THESE AGS and DA’s via their VOTE, they are getting what they deserve.
Is it just me, or does it seem that almost every crime against Asians is by a Black person. i know the Atlanta shootings might be an exception, but that crazy guy was trying to rid himself of sex demons, and just so happened to be the Asians were “Massage Therapists!”
Note how when Joe-JOe Biden squints into the camera and points his fingers at the audience, he INFERS that Asian hate is being perpetrated by white conservatives. He NEVER mentions the stats that show that historically liberalism has had contempt for Asians per policies like the FDR concentration camps for Japanese -AMERICANS or the left wing college quotas of Asians in advanced courses. And on the streets, it is ALWAYS a BLM stomp fest on a minority that shows a work ethic and an actual contribution to the nation.
NOR does his handlers in the media, acknowledge that.. CAUSE IT DOES NOT let them bash whites…
The family of this poor beaten man should sue BLM and ANTIFA for millions of dollars…just like the Floyd family received from the City of Minneapolis! That should quiet things down for awhile.
I’d LOVE to see everyone that has been injured by ANYONE in BLM, sue them for reparations!
I heard Michael Brown’s dad only got $900 from the BLM real estate moguls, but George Floyd got a folded flag usually reserved for MIA servicemen. However, the way it’s looking, George Floyd is 21st century America’s equivalent to NAZI Germany’s Horst Wessel.
Some day one of these clowns is going to pick on an elderly Asian man like the 85-year-old red belt I saw at the Kodokan in Japan over 50 years ago and he will not need an ambulance, just a sponge and a body bag.