Stabbing of student of Asian descent at Indiana University was motivated by race

[Bilal9]

Stabbing of student of Asian descent was motivated by race, suspect allegedly said. Now, another US community is pushing back on anti-AAPI hate​

Monroe County Corrections

Billie Davis said she was motivated by race when she repeatedly stabbed the victim -- an Asian student at Indiana University -- last week on a city bus

By Tina Burnside, Christine Sever and Dakin Andone, CNN

The suspect in an unprovoked attack allegedly said she was motivated by race when she repeatedly stabbed the victim — a student of Asian descent at Indiana University — last week on a city bus, according to court documents and a student group.

In what appears to be the latest example of a swell in anti-Asian discrimination nationwide, Billie Davis, 56, who is White, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery by means of a deadly weapon in the January 11 attack in Bloomington, court records obtained by CNN affiliate WTHR show. It was not immediately clear if she had an attorney.

Davis and the victim had been riding separately on the bus, and when the victim tried to exit, Davis got up from her nearby seat and allegedly stabbed the victim in the head with a folding knife, leaving puncture wounds, a probable cause affidavit says.

Davis later allegedly told investigators she used a knife to stab the victim because she was Chinese, saying “it would be one less person to blow up our country,” the affidavit says.

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After the stabbing, Davis got off the bus, walked away and discarded the knife before authorities got to her, it states. The victim was rushed to a hospital, according to the documents; her condition isn’t known.

Surveillance footage from the bus showed no confrontation between Davis and the victim before the attack, the document states.

City and university officials have condemned the attack, which comes amid a rising tide of reported harassment and attacks against Asian Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, reported hate crimes against Asians in 16 of the nation’s largest cities and counties rose 164% over the prior year, according to a study from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

The most prominent example may be the fatal 2021 shooting of eight people, mostly Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas in which prosecutors are pursuing hate crimes charges based on the victims’ sex and race. Last week in New York City, a man pleaded guilty to manslaughter as a hate crime and agreed to serve 22 years in prison in the April 2021 assault of a Chinese-American man, while another man pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and got 20 years in prison for striking a Chinese woman in 2021 with a rock.

Following last week’s bus attack, Bloomington’s mayor denounced hate-based violence, acknowledging a “racially motivated incident like this … can leave us feeling less safe.”

“We stand with the Asian community and all who feel threatened by this event,” John Hamilton said Saturday in a statement.

The attack reminded the city “that anti-Asian hate is real and can have painful impacts on individuals and our community,” said Indiana University’s vice president for diversity, equity, and multicultural affairs, James Wimbush.

“No one should face harassment or violence due to their background, ethnicity or heritage,” Wimbush said in a statement, adding, “To our Asian and Asian American friends, colleagues, students, and neighbors, we stand firmly with you.”

The Indiana University Asian Culture Center is “outraged and heartbroken by this unprovoked act of violence,” according to a statement that identified the victim as an 18-year-old Asian student. “We should not be fearing for our lives on public transportation. Taking the bus should not feel dangerous.”

“The fact that the perpetrator announced that race was the motivation for her attack sends a jolt through our Asian community,” the center said. “But it is becoming a familiar jolt.”

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[大汉奸柳传志]

she used a knife to stab the victim because she was Chinese, saying “it would be one less person to blow up our country,”

soon their children will be told that 911 was done by Chinese

 

[retaxis]

I laugh and laugh when I see Asians here, especially Chinese, who worship the whites, and brown nosing themselves on the whites.

When in actuality, whites are racists and happy to kill or injure, or support those that kill or injure Asians especially Chinese

Yeah the weak minded ones like jhungary and gambit got bullied as asians growing up so instead of being strong and learning about their cultural heritage, they decided to believe the bullies and do what the bullies tell them to do becoming a slave/servant for white master. They want to act tough but in reality they are mentally weak for folding backwards instead of standing proud.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I laugh and laugh when I see Asians here, especially Chinese, who worship the whites, and brown nosing themselves on the whites.

At least most of the Asians here actually have Asian flags.

..but your flag location says

tell them to do becoming a slave/servant for white master.

...and your flags say

too

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[大汉奸柳传志]

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should stay as a separate case to show just how easily low IQ American whites can be brainwashed, I mean, when was the last time a Chinese try to blow up anything in the US??

 

[-=virus=-]

Sad, the Chinese, along with the subcontinental lot are generally model citizens and have done quite well for themselves there.

 

[beijingwalker]

I laugh and laugh when I see Asians here, especially Chinese, who worship the whites, and brown nosing themselves on the whites.

Some are, mostly not, as retaxis pointed out, those white wannabes are all despised by Chinese members here.

Sad, the Chinese, along with the subcontinental lot are generally model citizens and have done quite well for themselves there.

The western media tried very hard to portray China as a racist country, but the truth is race motivated crimes are totally unheard of in China ever.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

should stay as a separate case to show just how easily low IQ American whites can be brainwashed, I mean, when was the last time a Chinese try to blow up anything in the US??

Well we can start flooding the China & Far East forum with Uighur threads. You want to green light that? Or do you think Muslim minorities are unimportant?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

those white wannabes are all despised by Chinese members here.

^^^^^
More proof Asians are the true racists. Always the fetish with the white-people as some excuse.

 

[beijingwalker]

^^^^^
More proof Asians are the true racists. Always the fetish with the white-people.

If you don't respect yourself, don't expect others to respect you, this rule applies to all cultures, it's not racism.

 

[VCheng]

it is so clear Murica and NATO deliberately provoked Russia

And the Russians were stupid enough to fall into that trap?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

If you don't respect yourself, don't expect others to respect you, this rule applies to all cultures, it's not racism.

Why do you think people here are not respecting themselves...just because their feet happen to be on a different continent?

Leave the "white-people" out of the equation and use the true variable - "their old Asian country failed them".

Just own up to the fact of the real reason instead of desperately racially associating it with the "white-man".

You guys are amazing at blaming others for you own countries f*ck-ups!! Especially if you can somehow pin it on some race other than your own.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Well we can start flooding the China & Far East forum with Uighur threads. You want to green light that? Or do you think Muslim minorities are unimportant?

You need a green light for that? I remember there even was a mod who posts Uighur stuff all the time there

Leave the "white-people" out of the equation and use the true variable - "my old Asian country failed me". Just own up to it.

Black on Asian hate crimes are probably more rampant these days but this one is pure CIRCUS I mean just look at her face, that face speaks louder than a thousand words

maybe some people find it hilarious only because she got that look

 

[beijingwalker]

Why do you think people here are not respecting themselves just because their feet happen to be on a different continent?

I know cause I lived there, I personally knew some white wannabe Chinese in US, and they are despised by most fellow Chinese.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I know cause I lived there, I personally knew some white wannabe Chinese in US, and they are despised by most fellow Chinese.

Can you please explain this definition of "white-wannabe".

I see some European youtuber videos posted here by the Chinese members saying how great living in China is but I wouldn't call them "Han wannabes" or "Asian wannabes"...since that sounds like some stupid excuse.