18-year-old Suni Lee says she was randomly peppered sprayed when a car drove by shouting racial slurs as she waited for an Uber with friends, all of whom are of Asian descent.
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Lee, 18, said she was waiting for an Uber with friends, all of whom are of Asian descent, according to an interview with Lee “I was so mad, but there was nothing I could do or control because they skirted off,” Lee told Pop Sugar. “I didn’t do anything to them, and having the reputation, it’s so hard because I didn’t want to do anything that could get me into trouble. I just let it happen.”
Lee, who grew up in a tight-knit Hmong community in St. Paul, Minnesota, vaulted onto the world stage after gold medalist Simone Biles withdrew from the Games for mental health reasons.The kind of attack that Lee described is more common than previous reporting suggested,
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