Health Director For Tacoma-Pierce County Says He Was Attacked
May 21, 2021 5:03PM PDT
Credit: MGN
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – The director of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, an Asian man, says he was attacked on a footbridge in Washington’s second-largest city.
The News Tribune reports that Dr. Anthony Chen said he doesn’t think the assault in Tacoma, Washington, was connected to his ethnicity, but it comes at a time of increased concern about violence directed toward Asians.
In a blog posted Friday afternoon, Chen wrote he was assaulted as he walked across the Chihuly Bridge of Glass.
He said he noticed a man damaging public property and tried to talk to him.
Chen said he wasn’t seriously hurt.
Wendy Haddow, spokeswoman for the Tacoma Police Department, says the alleged attack occurred about 1:40 a.m. May 19.
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