{"id":1293691,"date":"2022-02-12T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1293691"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T22:07:37","slug":"south-korean-diplomat-suffers-broken-nose-in-random-nyc-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-korean-diplomat-suffers-broken-nose-in-random-nyc-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean Diplomat Suffers Broken Nose in Random NYC Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-korean-diplomat-suffers-broken-nose-in-random-nyc-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1293691&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/New-York-City-Restaurants-And-Bars-Adapt-To-Covid-Restrictions-And-Offer-Outdoor-Seating-Options-02-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An \u201cunidentified man\u201d allegedly punched a South Korean diplomat on a Manhattan sidewalk on Wednesday night in New York City, causing the South Korean to suffer a broken nose, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) <a href=\"http:\/\/world.kbs.co.kr\/service\/news_view.htm?lang=e&amp;Seq_Code=167564\">reported<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A South Korean diplomat, who is stationed at South Korea\u2019s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (U.N.), \u201cwas punched in the face by an unidentified man in what police described as an \u2018unprovoked\u2019 attack at around 8 p.m. on Wednesday near Koreatown in Manhattan,\u201d KBS reported on February 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The assailant reportedly fled the scene. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said Thursday it was probing the incident and had yet to make any arrests in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20220210001036\">confirmed<\/a> the attack on its diplomat in a February 10 statement in which it urged the NYPD to \u201cconduct a quick and thorough investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the NYPD, the number of hate crimes against Asians in New York [City] surged from 28 in 2020 to 131 last year,\u201d KBS noted on Friday. Police will not know if&nbsp; Wednesday\u2019s assault was a hate crime until they find the assailant and investigate the motives behind the attack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The South Korean diplomat \u2014 whose identity remains undisclosed to respect his privacy \u2014 was physically assaulted in Manhattan, a borough of New York City (NYC) with the highest number of hate crimes among NYC\u2019s five boroughs in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManhattan, with 199 bias incidents, has led the city\u2019s record rise in hate crimes this year,\u201d the <em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/18\/manhattan-leads-nyc-in-record-hate-crime-surge\/\">reported<\/a> on December 18, 2021, citing NYPD data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf those, 134 occurred in Midtown\u2019s Manhattan South precinct, according to Compstat figures through Dec. 12,\u201d the newspaper relayed.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean diplomat was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/south-korean-diplomat-attacked-nose-broken-new-york-city-street-rcna15701\">attacked<\/a> \u201cnear the corner of East 35th Street and Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan\u201d on February 9, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe assault happened on the edge of Manhattan\u2019s Koreatown and about a mile southwest of U.N. headquarters,\u201d the news outlet revealed.<\/p>\n<p>NYC has experienced a surge in both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/02\/mayor-eric-adams-speaks-at-nyc-lunar-new-year-fest-promoting-genocide-olympics\/\">anti-Asian<\/a> attacks and crime in general over the past two years due in part to the city\u2019s leftwing governance and criminal justice <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/09\/robbery-suspect-who-caught-a-break-from-da-bragg-arrested-again-over-attack-on-sanitation-worker\/\">policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/20\/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-stands-by-soft-on-crime-staff-memo\/\">issued<\/a> a \u201cDay One\u201d staff memo on January 3 \u201cwhich directs prosecutors to drop some misdemeanor cases, not seek bail or prison time for most defendants and to downgrade certain felonies to misdemeanors,\u201d the <em>New York Post<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving negative backlash from the New York public after his January 3 memo leaked to the press, Bragg issued a new memo on February 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/ny-manhattan-district-attorney-nypd-20220204-iilx3ov4ovchdnp5u5mz7z3bh4-story.html\">clarifying<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201ccommercial robberies with a gun or at knifepoint will be charged as felonies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u201cunidentified man\u201d allegedly punched a South Korean diplomat on a Manhattan sidewalk on Wednesday night in New York City, causing the South Korean to suffer a broken nose, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}