Updated: Vigil for NY recycler, hate crime victim, who died after 8 months in coma

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Posted By Randall January 8, 2022

https://asamnews.com/2022/01/08/police-say-yao-pan-ma-had-been-collecting-cans-to-make-ends-meet-when-he-was-attacked-and-repeatedly-stomped-in-the-head/

Yao Pan Ma was an immigrant, a working man and husband. He was simply collecting cans for recycling to raise money before being attacked. He did not deserve this violence. That his family had to endure him being in a coma for eight long months was no blessing either.

Neighborhood Safety Companions will do their best to honor him in our work.

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Harlem remembers Yao Pan Ma, killed while collecting cans

https://asamnews.com/2022/01/21/blacks-and-asian-americans-gather-in-east-harlem-to-remember-61-year-old-yao-pan-ma-who-was-brutally-beaten-while-collecting-recyclable-cans/

Jan 21, 2021

Within feet of where Yao Pan Ma was stomped into a coma that lasted eight months, some 50 people held a vigil in East Harlem for the 61-year-old immigrant. He died of his injuries December 31^st. A dozen elected officials and activists ranging from the Upper Manhattan Asian American Alliance to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network stood in freezing temperatures behind posters of Mr. Ma, white candles, and roses. No one representing New York City Mayor Eric Adams attended. NYPD investigators attended but did not speak.  MORE…