[kellyhound]

Tammel Esco is a suspect being charged with attempted murder.

A woman from the Philippines is recovering from a vicious anti-Asian attack by Tammel Esco on her in Yonkers.

Wendy Trinidad reacted with horror to surveillance video of the hate crime committed in the lobby of her building by Tammel Esco.

42-year-old Tammel Esco assaulting his 67-year-old neighbor. Tammel Esco threw 125 punches and seven vicious kicks, then twice spit on the woman and used anti-Asian slurs.

The victim is well liked by neighbors.

“She’s very, very nice … Two daughters … Her husband passed. He was a mailman, I remember that,” neighbor Sken Shabaj said.

“We’re gonna file this as a hate crime, and we’re charging attempted murder based on the number of strikes and the length of the attack,” Yonkers Police Commissioner John Mueller said.

Tammel Esco has a criminal record which includes 14 arrests and multiple convictions, Mueller said.

In Feb. 2021, Tammel Esco pushed a woman through a plate glass window. She was not seriously hurt, but Esco was given conditional discharge and no jail time.

[LadyCPlum]

Oooh big man, picking on a harmless woman. Must suffer from a severe case of micro-penis overcompensation. He's showing off enough of his ass in this video, kick it back in jail where the other inmates can have fun with it.

[joos]

Not to get racial, but why does it seem like its only black people doing these attacks on asian women? Is there a component to that, or am I just not seeing the bigger picture?

[Hogmann]

Originally Posted by joos ↗

Not to get racial, but why does it seem like its only black people doing these attacks on asian women? Is there a component to that, or am I just not seeing the bigger picture?

Blame whitey. He's been keeping the black man down so long you can't hold him responsible anymore.

[snowsurfer]

True. But I think an increase in crime perpetrated from Black men upon everyone is generally is the case. Asian women are very petite, yet typically pretty strong-willed and proud. I suspect this provides a "rage" opportunity for these sick, perverted men.

[spudigitti]

Dindu nuffin !!

[kbt3168]

Nice fat ass-plumbers crack. Won’t be getting any fast food in the joint.

[LuckiiDevil21]

I counted 119 punches

[LadyCPlum]

He got 17 years for it.

[kellyhound]

A Yonkers man who admitted he pummeled and spit on a 67-year-old woman as he called her an “Asian bitch” was sentenced Tuesday to more than 17 years behind bars.

Tammel Esco, 42, was seen in the caught-on-video attack in March punching the victim more than 125 times and stomping her with construction boots in what Westchester County’s top prosecutor called one of “the most vicious and shocking hate crimes” in the New York City suburb’s history.

“Because of the viciousness and hate of Tammel Esco, I lost the place I called home for over 24 years, the place where I raised my daughters, and my longtime neighbors,” the victim said in a statement read in court, according to the Westchester District Attorney’s Office.

“As the attack happened, all I could think was, ‘Please Lord let me live, please Lord my daughters need me,’” said the victim, who suffered brain bleeding, facial fractures and other injuries.

“A complete stranger heartlessly spit, beat and kicked me over 100 times just because of my heritage… My only hope is that God and the criminal justice system will see fit to make sure this never happens to any other innocent family again.”

The victim, a woman of Filipino descent, walked past Esco outside the apartment building where they both lived on March 11 at around 6:08 p.m. He followed her into the vestibule and hit her from behind, continuing his attack even as she falls to the ground.

Esco, who pleaded guilty in September to a hate-crime charge of assault, was also sentenced to five years of post-release supervision in front of Judge Anne Minihan, county DA Mimi Rocah said in a statement.

“Today we close a chapter on one of the most vicious and shocking hate crimes we’ve seen in Westchester County,” Rocah said. “This is a case that has traumatized not only the victim and her family, but also her neighbors, the Westchester community, and the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander community.”

Yonkers Police Commissioner Christoper Sapienza said he hoped the victim and her family could find “some degree of peace” in light of the sentence.

“Let this sentence be a clear message to others who would perpetrate violence in our communities, that Yonkers and Westchester law enforcement will commit every resource to hold violent criminals accountable,” Sapienza said.