Train rider sprays Asian passenger with air freshener amid Covid-19 fears


  • World
  • Monday, 09 Mar 2020

BROOKLYN, New York, (ANN): In what is being reviewed as a coronavirus-related hate crime, a train commuter tried driving an Asian passenger away by spraying what appeared to be an air freshener in the United States.

An African-American passenger in Brooklyn, New York City, began shouting and cursing because an Asian man was standing close to him, a certain Doris Au uploaded a video on her Facebook account last Wednesday, March 4.

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