Maybe he is a gentle giant who has turned his life around.
“Elliot was convicted of stabbing his mother to death in the Bronx in 2002, when he was 19. He was released from prison in 2019 and is on lifetime parole. The parole board had previously twice denied his release. His record also included an arrest for robbery in 2000.”
Here are statistics from New York. 7 Latinos, 11 African Americans, and 2 white were arrested for anti-Asian attacks, but the mantra is that the attacks have been from white supremacists.
In New York, one of the seven Latinos arrested in anti-Asian attacks last year was a 44-year-old man who allegedly harassed and hit a Hong Kong-born man in Queens.
Among the 11 African Americans arrested last year was a group of four teenage girls charged in April with hate crimes after attacking a 51-year-old Asian woman on a bus in the Bronx while accusing her of causing the COVID-19 virus. One of the teens struck the woman in the head with an umbrella. Prosecutors later dropped hate crime charges against the other three.
Of the two white suspects arrested, one was a woman. In March, Lynn Ferguson, 33, was charged with hate crimes after she bumped into an Asian woman in Manhattan, spat on her and pulled her hair, declaring, “You’re the reason why the coronavirus is here!”
Of course not every crime against Asians is a hate crime, but the media are quick to make race the basis of an attack if the suspect is white. On the other hand consider this recent botched car-jacking in DC where a Pakistani driver was killed. The mayor called it an “accident”. Would the mayor have used the same language if the suspects were white?
Or would the killing have been labeled as an anti-Asian, xenophobic, Islamophobic hate crime even if the evidence were that the primary motive was theft?
Not picking nits. The black guy specifically said anti-Asian stuff while kicking and beating her. That is a definition of a hate crime. But when it specifically is anti-Asian by a black guy Biden says absolutely nothing about it, why? He jumped all over it as anti-Asian by a white guy who said absolutely nothing against Asians while killing two whites as well. He doesn’t specifically call out this black guy for assaulting an Asian person because she is Asian. Why the double standard?
A lot of African Americans voted for Biden, which there is no fault in that but that is why mayor Pete got slammed in South Carolina as well as Bernie Sanders which turned the whole democratic primaries around.
It wasn’t that long ago Biden was more or less written off in the primaries until the voting went to the south were he outperformed every other candidate by a wide margin with African American voters.