today three cops randomly stopped me at canal st to ask me to translate for a confused asian woman they were charging for fare evasion and they kept refusing to let her go bc she didnt have an id 1/ incredibly bleak irony in seeing an increased police presence, ostensibly in response to violence towards asian women, result in police harassing an asian woman then giving her a hundred dollar fine for skipping a $2 ticket in chinatown during lol aapi month 2/