‘The Boys’ star Karen Fukuhara details alleged assault in anti-Asian hate crime

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The Boys and Suicide Squad (2016) actress shared details about the alleged incident on her Instagram yesterday (March 16), saying that she decided to do so to “raise awareness” of the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in countries including the US.The actor, who was born to Japanese parents in LA, said that she rarely shares things about her private life but felt compelled to speak out.“Something happened today that I thought was important,” she wrote, claiming that she was “walking to a café for some coffee and a man struck me in the back of my head.

It came out of nowhere”.She continued: “We made no eye contact before, I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. It came to my surprise and my hat flew off.

By the time I looked back, he was a few feet away from me (he must have kept walking after hitting me).”A post shared by Karen Fukuhara (@karenfukuhara)Fukuhara added that she’d considered “confronting” the man but after he started walking towards her she decided against such a “risk”.“After a few seconds of staring at each other, and him yelling at me, he eventually walked away,” she continued.“This is the first time I’ve been harmed physically, although racial slurs and hurtful actions have been directed to me in the past.“I write this, because I’ve had conversations with multi-racial friends of mine that had no idea these hate crimes happen to everyday, regular people—people they share meals with.“Ultimately I know I got lucky,” she added. “He could have come back to hit me again.

He could have carried a weapon. The shock of this experience has me thinking about taking self-defence classes. But why is this something we as ‘victims’ have to think about?”Fukuhara concluded: “What satisfaction are these perpetrators.