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The Independent UK
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Gustaf Kilander

Man charged with hate crime for dousing Asian women with liquid and hurling racist slurs

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A man accused of attacking and spewing racist slurs at two Asian women in a Manhattan subway station has been indicted on hate crimes charges.

Derrick Johnson was charged on Wednesday after the 8 May incident in which he reportedly walked up to the women and doused them in an unidentified liquid, prosecutors say.

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