A QAnon conspiracy theorist who rioted at the nation’s Capitol — and urged men to sexually assault women as part of his work as a “pickup artist” — was sentenced Monday to 3½ years in prison for hoarding an arsenal of ammunition and weapons on the Upper East Side.
It was around 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 27 when a blond man wearing a light blue T-shirt and dark pants punched a 57-year-old Asian woman in the face, police said. For about the next two hours, the same man would assault six more Asian women as he made his way down 30 blocks in Manhattan, according to authorities. Steven Zajonc, 28, was arrested three days later. On Monday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Zajonc has been indicted on 13 hate-crime charges — six for felony assault and seven for aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor.
A man arrested last month in a string of attacks on seven Asian women in New York City has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor hate crimes charges, prosecutors announced Monday. Steven Zajonc, 28, is charged with six felony counts of third-degree assault as a hate crime and seven counts of second-degree aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor hate crime, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
“These attacks on seven New York women, each fueled by anti-Asian hate, are yet another sobering reminder of the demonstrable fears AAPI communities, particularly AAPI women, in our City continue to face,” said DA Bragg.
“Samuel Fisher is a dangerous conspiracy theorist who participated in one of the gravest attacks on our democracy,” said District Attorney Bragg.
