{"id":35095,"date":"2013-04-14T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35095"},"modified":"2013-04-14T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T12:04:27","slug":"army-officer-attacked-by-nutjob-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35095","title":{"rendered":"Army officer attacked by nutjob in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news10.com\/story\/21962414\/schenectady-man-assaults-army-captain-in-albany\">a link from Albany, NY<\/a> about a nutty crank who began verbally abusing an Army captain in line at Walmart and then took it up a notch;<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WTEN.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=727;hostDomain=www.news10.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=8769341;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news10.com\" title=\"NEWS10 ABC: Albany, New York  News, Weather, Sports\">NEWS10 ABC: Albany, New York  News, Weather, Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The victim, who was wearing his Army uniform, told officers that a man standing directly behind him in line began to yell derogatory statements towards him about the United States of America and his service to the country. The suspect then struck him several times in the face.<\/p>\n<p>The victim sustained bruising to his face and a laceration over his eye. He was treated at the scene by Albany Fire Department personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like he displayed a great deal of restraint which is consistent with the armed forces, law enforcement and public service. We are held at a higher standard and you have to commend him for being able to have that restraint,&#8221; said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 47-year-old Yiqiang Wu, of Schenectady, was arrested at the scene and charged Assault 3rd-degree as a Hate Crime. He was arraigned this morning in the Albany City Criminal Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about New York&#8217;s hate crime laws, but I know the hippies in Vermont were forced to accept that discrimination against service members and veterans to get their hate crime law passed when I lived there, so I&#8217;m guessing that the New York law is the same way. <\/p>\n<p><em>On edit:<\/em> I went through the New York &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/criminaljustice.state.ny.us\/legalservices\/ch107_hate_crimes_2000.htm\">Hate Crime Act of 2000<\/a>&#8221; and I don&#8217;t see anything in it that makes an assault of a member of the military a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; in New York. I guess it will be interesting to see how this turns out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul sends us a link from Albany, NY about a nutty crank who began verbally abusing &hellip; <a title=\"Army officer attacked by nutjob in Albany\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35095\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army officer attacked by nutjob in Albany<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}