"If I was not with a male friend, there was a good chance for her to
beat me until death," Shi said, standing at a podium in front of the judge.
"I was beaten just because of my identity, just because of
discrimination for Chinese."
More than five weeks after the attack, Shi still has memory lapses,
struggles to read and couldn't walk straight for weeks, she said. Her
eyeball
has sunken 3 millimeters, she said, and she may have to pay $7,500 for
surgery on top of the $2,000 she has already paid.
Beyond physical pain, she was left with "great humiliation" in her
heart, she said. After speaking, Shi cried silently in her seat.
Rutledge never
looked at the victims during the hearing.
"Every person, especially the minority, especially immigrants, has the
same right and everybody was born equal and should be treated equal,"
Shi said. "And if they want to bully somebody just because of their
identity, they are so wrong. And we’ll prove that they are wrong."
On 9/1/2016 2:02 PM, R George wrote:
Yes and Yes, some are in prison for doing these things and some are not caught.
*Chinese student beaten in possible Arizona hate crime*
BY AT EDITOR on *MAY 26, 2016* in ASIA TIMES NEWS & FEATURES, CHINA
(From China Daily)
Safety concerns were rising among Chinese students after a Chinese woman was brutally beaten in an possible hate crime last week in Tempe, Arizona.
Xiaolin Shi, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, said she was assaulted by a white woman on a train on the way home between 10:30 pm and 11 pm on May 20.
Kalie Rutledge, 22, began yelling slurs like “Bitch, go f—ing back to China” to Shi and her friend after they got on the train and talked in Chinese, Shi told China Daily.
She said the suspect aggressively approached them and continued berating them for a while. As they were about to get off the train at their stop, the suspect came at them and punched Shi in the face.
“I lost consciousness for a few seconds, and then I found myself on the ground with blood all over my face,” Shi said. Her friend was also attacked but didn’t sustain serious injuries.
Shi had a broken bone in her face and swelling to her eye. She said the doctor told her surgery might be necessary, though she was currently in stable condition.
On 9/1/2016 12:34 PM, Ron Ristad wrote:
What do these hate groups do? Do they go around lynching people? Do they go around beating up people they don't like?
