Karen Fukuhara was randomly attacked.
The 30-year-old The Boys actress dropped this bombshell on social media. She took to Instagram on Wednesday (March 16) to reveal that she was attacked by a man while she was walking towards a cafe.
Karen wrote:
“Today I was struck in the head by a man (I’m physically fine) & this s–t needs to stop. Us women, Asian, the elderly need your help.
I rarely share about my private life, but something happened today that I thought was important.”
She went on to detail what happened, saying:
“I was walking to a cafe for some coffee and a man struck me in the back of my head. It came out of nowhere. 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).”
She said that she considered confronting him but decided he was not worth it:
“I thought about confronting him first but he started coming towards me and I didn’t think it was worth the risk. After a few seconds of staring at each other, and him yelling at me, he eventually walked away.”
Karen stated that this is the first time she endured physical harm, but that she had been on the receiving end of other racial slurs and hurtful actions before:
“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 that they share meals with. I felt it was important to raise awareness.”
She concluded with these powerful words:
“Ultimately I know I got lucky. 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 defense classes. But why is this something we as ‘victims’ have to think about? What satisfaction are these perpetrators getting from hitting women, Asians, the ELDERLY?
They need to be held accountable. What can we do as a community to prevent these horrible crimes?”
