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This past week, an Asian woman was capturing footage of a manhole explosion for her Youtube channel, The Bing Buzz, in Queens, NY, when she was suddenly met by a man who aggressively approached her and began hurling racist comments.

In an attempt to avoid confrontation, the women began moving away. However, the man began following her, continuing to shout racist comments.

“Suddenly, this random guy comes up to me out of nowhere, with no mask covering his mouth, repeatedly asking me “Yo why do Chinese people eat dogs?” and aggressively following me around. This was at the Broadway station on Broadway & 31st St in Astoria. He just targeted me as he was walking down the staircase.”

This encounter comes in the midst of a drastic spike in Anti-Asian hate crimes across the nation over the past few weeks.

“I’m hoping that this will bring more awareness to the matter at hand. If you live in Astoria or will be around the neighborhood, please be aware of this man. I’m glad that there was a train station right there so that I could run up and escape him. This behavior is seriously unacceptable. Please be safe everyone!!”

If you’d like to report a hate incident, please visit www.stopaapihate.org.