{"id":429510,"date":"2021-04-15T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429510"},"modified":"2021-04-15T21:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:09:46","slug":"elderly-mexican-american-viciously-beaten-on-bus-attacker-thought-she-was-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elderly-mexican-american-viciously-beaten-on-bus-attacker-thought-she-was-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Mexican American Viciously Beaten On Bus, Attacker Thought She Was Chinese"},"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\">24<\/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%2Felderly-mexican-american-viciously-beaten-on-bus-attacker-thought-she-was-chinese%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=429510&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\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-29.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An elderly Mexican American woman from Los Angeles was left severely injured on April 9 after another passenger assaulted her on a Metro bus.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old woman, identified as \u2018Becky,\u2019 was left with a swollen face and eyes, a broken nose, and a concussion, after being attacked while trying to get off of the bus, The Eastsider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastsiderla.com\/neighborhoods\/eagle_rock\/70-year-old-woman-badly-beaten-on-metro-bus-in-eagle-rock\/article_88e97dbc-9c97-11eb-8505-fb94c3d499b3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman had reportedly been trying to get off her bus when her attacker allegedly called her a racial slur used on people of Chinese descent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arrest made after 70-year-old woman badly beaten, allegedly called anti-Asian slurs on Metro bus in Eagle Rock <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PnJXrwmP0O\">https:\/\/t.co\/PnJXrwmP0O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7\/status\/1382815556856733698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pete, the son of the victim, noted that the attacker, who was later <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/suspect-arrested-after-report-of-70-year-old-woman-badly-hurt-in-racially-motivated-attack-on-bus-in-eagle-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a> as 23-year-old Yasmine Beasley, allegedly attacked and dragged his mother from the back of the bus to the front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody would help. Not even the bus driver,\u201d Pete explained, according to The Eastsider. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/13\/asian-man-sexually-assaulted-asian-woman-white-hate-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Asian Man Tried To Sexually Assault Asian Woman \u2018Because He Thought She Was White,\u2019 Authorities Claim)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attack reportedly ended after another passenger on the bus called 9-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Becky was taken to the hospital where she was monitored for 24 hours before being released. She also suffers from disabilities such as lupus and arthritis and <a href=\"https:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/70-year-old-mexican-woman-severely-beaten-assailant-thought-asian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sustained<\/a> bruising to her leg,\u00a0making it difficult for her to walk, The Eastsider reported.<\/p>\n<p>Beasley was reportedly arrested on another bus after police released a poster regarding the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes against Asians have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/12\/hate-crimes-against-asian-americans-increase-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increased<\/a>, with more than 2,800 reported anti-Asian incidents occurring between March 19 and Dec. 31, 2020, USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/02\/12\/asian-hate-incidents-covid-19-lunar-new-year\/4447037001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly Mexican American woman from Los Angeles was left severely injured on April 9 after another passenger assaulted her on a Metro bus.The 70-year-old woman, identified as \u2018Becky,\u2019 was left with a swollen face and eyes, a broken nose, and a concussion, after being attacked while trying to get off of the bus, The Eastsider reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-29.png","fifu_image_alt":"Elderly Mexican American Viciously Beaten On Bus, Attacker Thought She Was Chinese","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-29.png","fifu_image_alt":"Elderly Mexican American Viciously Beaten On Bus, Attacker Thought She Was Chinese","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429510","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=429510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}