Karen Fukuhara of ‘The Boys’ says she was struck by a man outside a café in what can be described as a racially motivated hate crime.
“Today I was stuck in the head by a man (I’m physically fine) and this shit needs to stop. Us women, Asians, the elderly need your help.”
“I rarely share about my private life. But something happened today that I thought was important.” She shared in the second slide.
Fukuhara continued, “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,” she wrote. “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).”
The alleged attacker turned back to look at her after the moving strike, “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,”
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The actor used the “StopAsianHate” hashtag to caption her post, trying to bring awareness to the issue. She continued to talk about how racism has affected her in the past.
“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,” she wrote. “I felt it was important to raise awareness.”
Karen continued to talk about how the event could’ve escalated, “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 class.”
She finished by beginning to ask about accountability, “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?”
Fukuhara plays Kimiko in The Boys and is also known for her role in Suicide Squad (2016).
