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... an old all-too-familiar thought popped into my mind: Please don’t let the perpetrator be Black. Alas, he was. And the beating was very disturbing. The perp, later identified as 38-year-old parolee Brandon Elliot, can be seen on the security camera video kicking 65-year-old Vilma Kari in the stomach and stomping repeatedly on her head.... She cites New York Police Department data to write, “a black New Yorker is over six times as likely to commit a hate crime against an Asian as a white New Yorker.” “In 2020,” she writes, “blacks made up 50 percent of all suspects in...

The assailant accused of beating an Asian woman to the ground and kicking her in the head while onlookers did nothing was remanded Wednesday night at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. Brandon Elliot, 38, was charged with two counts of second-degree assault as a hate crime and one count of attempted assault in the first degree as a hate crime in an attack prosecutors called “heinous and unprovoked” as they requested he stay behind bars. “At about 11:40 a.m. Monday morning, the victim was on her way to church when the defendant approached her on the street, cursed at...

An arrest was made early this morning in a violent, racist attack on a 65-year-old Asian woman Brandon Elliot, 38, of West 40th Street in Manhattan was on lifetime parole for murdering his mother in 2002. He was paroled in 2019 after serving 17 years for second-degree murder.

Authorities have arrested a man who viciously attacked an Asian American woman near New York City’s Times Square. Police on Wednesday charged 38-year-old Brandon Elliot with assault and hate crime charges after officers blanketed the midtown Manhattan neighborhood with wanted posters and offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of the man seen on surveillance video Monday brutalizing the woman as she walked to church. Elliot is on lifetime parole after he was released from prison in 2019, according to an NYPD spokesperson. He was convicted of murdering his own mother back in 2002. The court date...

The man who beat an Asian woman to the ground then kicked her in the head in a brutal, caught-on-camera hate attack in Midtown earlier this week was arrested by police early Wednesday morning, cops said. Brandon Elliot, 38, was arrested at about 2 a.m. Wednesday and hit with a number of charges, including assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime, police said. Elliot lives in a nearby hotel that serves as a homeless shelter, according to cops. He allegedly beat a 65-year-old woman after hurling anti-Asian statements at her on West 43 Street near...