Thai woman’s attacker appears before New York court charged with robbery and assault last year

[webfact]

(Left) A horrific photo of 23-year-old Bew Jirajariyawetch, a recent immigrant from Thailand to New York, was taken by the New York City Police Department after she was attacked in the early hours of November 22nd last. Now, following a December appearance on the city’s Crime Stoppers TV show, the attacker, 40-year-old Kevin Douglas has been charged with assault and robbery of the woman. He had been arrested just hours later and was in custody at Rikers Island Prison at the time of the show appealing for help from the public. However, it has also emerged that the suspect sexually assaulted Ms Bew during the attack on her (inset).

 

40-year-old Kevin Douglas was arrested over eight hours after the assault last November when he barged his way into a woman’s home in the Queens area of New York and punched her in the face in what police say was a random attack. The attack on the Thai woman comes amid a crime wave in New York and a sharp rise in attacks targeting Asian Americans in the United States and the Big Apple where such incidents were up fivefold in 2021.

 

A 40-year-old African American man was charged before a Manhattan court in New York last Thursday with a vicious attack on a 23-year-old Thai woman in the city last year which was the subject of an appeal to the public for help. In the course of the attack, which left Bew Jirajariyawetch bloodied and bruised, it has now also been revealed that the young woman, who only emigrated to the US months before from Thailand, was also sexually assaulted by the perpetrator.

 

23-year-old Thai woman Bew Jirajariyawetch who emigrated to New York last year and who was the subject of a violent attack in November was praised this week by her lawyer after the man who attacked her was charged before the courts in relation to the incident.

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/02/16/thai-woman-attacker-appears-before-new-york-court/

 

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[EVENKEEL]

Hopefully this time Mr Douglass will be kept locked up where he belongs. It's sad to see the ugly trend of crime going unpunished.

[metisdead]

From that long article in the OP, the perpetrator has a long rap sheet:

 

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Perpetrator has a long rap sheet

The suspect Mr Douglas has a long criminal history having been so far arrested no less than 44 times by police since 1997.

 

His rap sheet is believed to include counts in relation to drug offences, assault, criminal possession of weapons, robbery and criminal tampering.

 

 

 

I do think 44 offenses classifies him as a criminal and he should be duly prosecuted.

[TooMuchTime]

NYC the progressive multi-cultural paradise sure has its downfalls.

[ChrisY1]

Probably do a couple of weeks, get released and then hit the road on a new adventure of anti asian hate sh#t!

 

[vandeventer]

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

Hopefully this time Mr Douglass will be kept locked up where he belongs. It's sad to see the ugly trend of crime going unpunished.

There is something weird going on in the USA with blacks comitting most of the crime against Asians.

[tandor]

43 minutes ago, metisdead said:

From that long article in the OP, the perpetrator has a long rap sheet:

 

 

 

I do think 44 offenses classifies him as a criminal and he should be duly prosecuted.

 

43 minutes ago, metisdead said:

From that long article in the OP, the perpetrator has a long rap sheet:

 

 

 

I do think 44 offenses classifies him as a criminal and he should be duly prosecuted.

...hmmm..the mere fact he is a consistent offender reveals he HAS been 'duly prosecuted' at least 44 times. I dare say he has committed many, many more crimes that have gone unsolved, reported.

[Iron Tongue]

47 minutes ago, metisdead said:

From that long article in the OP, the perpetrator has a long rap sheet:

 

 

 

I do think 44 offenses classifies him as a criminal and he should be duly prosecuted.

Should, yes.  WILL, -let's wait and see.

[EVENKEEL]

23 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

There is something weird going on in the USA with blacks comitting most of the crime against Asians.

If it were whites doing the crime it would be reported as racial hate crimes committed by white supremacists. 

[wpcoe]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

40-year-old Kevin Douglas was arrested over eight hours after the assault last November when he barged his way into a woman’s home in the Queens area of New York and punched her in the face in what police say was a random attack.

The article is misleading, in that the attack on the Thai woman occurred on a subway platform.

[metisdead]

A reported troll post has been removed.

[Sheryl]

2 hours ago, wpcoe said:

The article is misleading, in that the attack on the Thai woman occurred on a subway platform.

They are referring to a second attack he committed 8 hours later. He was caught and  for that, it took a while before they figured out he was also responsible for the assault on the Thai woman that same day

[jomtienisgood]

27 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

They are referring to a second attack he committed 8 hours later. He was caught and  for that, it took a while before they figured out he was also responsible for the assault on the Thai woman that same day

High time his ' shift ' finished. lol .....

[mtls2005]

Refresher...

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1243193-female-thai-student-assaulted-robbed-in-us/

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1243370-update-brutal-attack-on-thai-woman-investigated-by-nypd/

 

[rudi49jr]

5 hours ago, TooMuchTime said:

NYC the progressive multi-cultural paradise sure has its downfalls.

Whereas everything in small-town USA (like Brunswick, Georgia, where Ahmed Arbery was killed by a bunch of redneck racists) is all just peachy.

[SunnyinBangrak]

7 hours ago, vandeventer said:

There is something weird going on in the USA with blacks comitting most of the crime against Asians.

Not weird. Asians, by being so successful in the USA, blow the false narrative that minorities are victims of a white society and the crazy high violent crime rate/high unemployment/high divorce rates are not their fault. Hence the rage. Also the reason why the cctv footage of these attackers of Asians are always blurred. Only my opinion of course, Im sure MSM and "fact checkers" will disagree.

[RobU]

18 hours ago, vandeventer said:

There is something weird going on in the USA with blacks comitting most of the crime against Asians.

Over 50% of all violent crime in the USA is perpetrated by Black Males not just against Asians

[Bluespunk]

13 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Not weird. Asians, by being so successful in the USA, blow the false narrative that minorities are victims of a white society and the crazy high violent crime rate/high unemployment/high divorce rates are not their fault. Hence the rage. Also the reason why the cctv footage of these attackers of Asians are always blurred. Only my opinion of course, Im sure MSM and "fact checkers" will disagree.

Yeah those pesky fact checkers and the facts they bring up…

[EVENKEEL]

This is a University professor mind you, blame everything on White supremacy.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/21/white-supremacy-causes-black-citizens-to-commit-an/

[LiamB80]

Nearly all of the hate crimes committed against Asians in America are done by African Americans. 

[Bluespunk]

 

54 minutes ago, LiamB80 said:

Nearly all of the hate crimes committed against Asians in America are done by African Americans. 

Really…the truth is not as clear cut as you would have us all believe. 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1270821

 

https://www.voanews.com/amp/usa_anti-asian-hate-crime-crosses-racial-and-ethnic-lines/6203679.html

 

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/amp/

Edited February 23, 2022 by Bluespunk
Double quote.

[tubby johnson]

1 hour ago, Bluespunk said:

 

Really…the truth is not as clear cut as you would have us all believe. 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1270821

 

https://www.voanews.com/amp/usa_anti-asian-hate-crime-crosses-racial-and-ethnic-lines/6203679.html

 

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/amp/

A biased and selective choice. Not unexpected.

 

Those pesky FBI crime statistics prove you wrong again. 

[Bluespunk]

9 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

A biased and selective choice. Not unexpected.

 

Those pesky FBI crime statistics prove you wrong again. 

Biased? The links I posted are based on trustworthy sources and do not try to hide any groups culpability. 
 

But hey, why let pesky facts get into the way of a narrative. 
 

Edit: and just to be clear I’m not defending the man charged in the OP. I have zero tolerance for filth who sexually assault others. I believe in harsh sentencing for such crimes, regardless of ethnicity of such predatory scum. 

Edited February 23, 2022 by Bluespunk
Grammar and clarification. Plus additional edit.

[OJAS]

35 minutes ago, NotReallyHere said:

So your sarcastic comment is to point out that these criminals are everywhere? 

Whereas the Thai-bashing brigade on here would like to have us believe that such criminals only exist in LOS, of course.

 

[tubby johnson]

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Biased? The links I posted are based on trustworthy sources and do not try to hide any groups culpability. 
 

But hey, why let pesky facts get into the way of a narrative. 
 

Edit: and just to be clear I’m not defending the man charged in the OP. I have zero tolerance for filth who sexually assault others. I believe in harsh sentencing for such crimes, regardless of ethnicity of such predatory scum. 

"trustworthy sources" 

 

Those "pesky facts" ..... Yeah, such as FBI crime statistics.

[Bluespunk]

18 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

"trustworthy sources" 

 

Those "pesky facts" ..... Yeah, such as FBI crime statistics.

And yet you are unable to refute the balanced and trustworthy reports/analysis’ I posted links to. 
 

Now there’s a thing…not a surprising or unpredictable thing, but nonetheless a thing..

 

Edit: these are links to fbi hate crime statistics that I’ve found. Now I’m sure you can point to where your data is located within them. Do me a solid and show me exactly where this is. 
 

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-updated-2020-hate-crime-statistics

 

https://www.justice.gov/crs/highlights/2020-hate-crimes-statistics

 

Now it could well be I’ve gotten on to the wrong links, so please feel free to post links to credible sites that both back up your claims and refute the findings contained within the reports I posted links to. 
 

Edit 2: here’s another link to digest

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna3741

Edited February 23, 2022 by Bluespunk

[rudi49jr]

2 hours ago, NotReallyHere said:

So your sarcastic comment is to point out that these criminals are everywhere?  You may have a point...

 

From Reuters concerning Arbery:

In 2013, a year after he graduated from high school, he went back on campus to attend a basketball game and was found with a pistol in his waistband. He was given five years of probation.

In 2017, he was arrested for attempted shoplifting of a television from a local Walmart. A judge extended the term of his original probation, which he was still serving when he died, court records show.

Defense attorneys wanted to tell the jury about those incidents, but the judge said no, ruling that the defendants could not have known anything about Arbery's legal troubles or probation status.

I wonder why Arbery, who supposedly was just out for a jog, routinely interrupted his jogs to snoop around in houses that were under construction.  Unfortunate for him that there was a history of theft of property at other construction sites in the neighborhood.   I'm sure an upstanding citizen like Arbery had no knowledge of those thefts and was only trespassing on the unattended construction sites because of an interest in architecture.

That may all very well be true, but it’s still no reason for those three guys to do what they did, is it? Just go on Youtube and see the astonishing number of videos of black men being harassed by (mainly) white people, just for entering the apartment building where they live, or sitting in the lobby of the hotel they’re staying at, or washing their car in the driveway of their own home, or being an estate agent going into a house to show it to potential clients. The list is endless. Racism is very much a part of life in the USA. 

[NotReallyHere]

24 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

That may all very well be true, but it’s still no reason for those three guys to do what they did, is it? Just go on Youtube and see the astonishing number of videos of black men being harassed by (mainly) white people, just for entering the apartment building where they live, or sitting in the lobby of the hotel they’re staying at, or washing their car in the driveway of their own home, or being an estate agent going into a house to show it to potential clients. The list is endless. Racism is very much a part of life in the USA. 

You are obviously not an American.  I encourage you to find more reliable sources than YouTube before you make blanket statements about "life in the USA".

 

If you go on YouTube and search "white racism against blacks", guess what you will find.  Videos of whites being racist against blacks.  Does that mean that black on white racism doesn't happen?  No, it does not.  I have lived in predominantly blacks communities and have been discriminated against.  Property vandalized.  Threatening racist messages on my answering machine (remember those?).  Negative comments made about me between two blacks in a tone of voice designed for me to hear.  I was guilty of being their neighbor and having a job.  Nothing more.

 

Vigilantism is not acceptable, however, if a person leads a life in which they do not obey the law, they are more likely to eventually have a problem with vigilantism.  Especially in cities/communities that are defunding the police.  Also, Arbery tried to wrestle the gun out of the hands of the gun owner.  I'm sorry, but Arbery was an idiot.  He didn't deserve to die, but he made so many bad decisions in life, it is not surprising he's dead.  The most important point is to recognize that he did not die because of his race alone.  That is what the media wants you to believe.  That is the current narrative.  That is the narrative you are promoting with your comments.  That is the narrative that gets people excited and keeps them engaged on whatever platform is selling that lie.  It's all about clicks, screen views and selling advertising.  That is what you will find on YouTube.  It is false and harmful to our society.

[Rimmer]

A troll post has been removed

[Sheryl]

Please stay on topic.

 

There is no indication at all that this attack (on the Thai woman) was due to her being Asian. The attacker has a very, very long history of attacks (and even attacked another woman hours after attacking the Thai woman) and most of his victims were not Asian.