Wave of hate crimes targeting NYC Asians blamed on a single woman

A string of anti-Asian attacks across New York City's Upper West Side have been tied to a single woman, Manhattan's District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced.

Camila Rodriguez, 29, has been charged with Assault in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime, six counts of Assault in the Third Degree as a Hate Crime, and six counts of Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree, covering six different attacks against Asian victims.

All were separate, unprovoked attacks within the course of a month and a half, according to Bragg. All the incidents took place relatively close to each other.

Among the accusations are that Rodriquez kicked a woman of Korean descent in the back of the leg as she tried to board a subway. She pulled the hair of a victim of Chinese descent and then slapped the victim after she turned around and spoke to Rodriguez in Mandarin. Rodriguez then continued to punch the victim after she fell to the ground. In another incident, she attacked a woman of Filipino descent by grabbing her hair and pulling her to the ground and punching her in the face multiple times.

Other incidents are listed in a district attorney press release, which you can read here.