The NYPD charged an Orlando-area woman with committing hate crimes after she pepper-sprayed four Asian women in New York City on June 11.
47-year-old Madeline Barker of Merritt Island was captured on video using pepper spray on the women. Victims and witnesses told police that Barker used anti-Asian epithets on the group of young women, who were all under the age of 25. According to the police, the victims refused medical attention at the scene.
“Go back to your country,” Barker allegedly said to the women.
After being found by eye-witnesses she was arrested in the Big Apple, with her bail being set at $20,000, according to the New York Post. The Manhattan judge on the case deemed Barker a “flight risk,” over fear that she would head back home rather than face the case.
Barker is charged with two counts of attempted assault as a hate crime, two counts of assault as a hate crime and four counts of harassment as a hate crime.