00:00 Last month, a 62-year-old Japanese diplomat was reportedly attacked by a US woman in Oregon.
00:09 The incident was reported to be an anti-Asian hate crime.
00:13 Yuzo Yoshioka is head of the Consular Office of Japan in Portland.
00:18 According to reports, he was pushed to the ground by the woman while walking alone in
00:22 the downtown area of the western US city at around 1.20pm local time on June 17.
00:29 The woman was reportedly homeless.
00:31 The diplomat, who suffered a cut to his head after hitting the pavement, was hospitalized
00:36 but discharged on the same day.
00:38 He has since returned to work.
00:40 News media outlets reported that a Portland police officer who responded to the scene
00:44 said that the diplomat told him that his attacker had pushed him down unprovoked.
00:50 Reports revealed that the officer observed a lot of blood running down the back of the
00:53 victim as they were assisted by medics on the gurney.
00:57 The suspect was identified as a 23-year-old woman named Arisa Jean Mignon Robinson.
01:03 She has been charged with four-degree assault, felony biased crime and strangulation.
01:09 According to reports, court records showed that Robinson is being held in jail.
01:13 Following the incident, Yoshioka told reporters that he was glad to be assigned to Portland
01:18 and haven't changed any good image about Portland despite the incident.
01:23 According to court records, the attack was part of a broader pattern of Robinson targeting
01:27 people of Asian descent.
01:29 In August of last year, reports said that she was arrested after allegedly punching
01:33 a 76-year-old Asian man in the head several times and putting him in a chokehold, which
01:39 cut off his air supply and prevented him from screaming for help.
01:43 She was arraigned on counts of strangulation and harassment, but they were dismissed in
01:47 January.
01:48 A year earlier, Robinson allegedly attacked a mother and a child in Portland's Chinatown
01:53 when she kicked over a baby stroller with a one-year-old inside.
01:57 Robinson was arrested in that attack, but the charges against her were dropped.
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