An Asian man is facing hate crime charges after mistakenly attacking an Asian woman, who he believed was white, in retaliation for the rise in Asian hate crimes.

Police say a Korean woman was sitting in the driver's seat of her car outside her apartment when she looked up to see 37-year-old Michael Sangbong Rhee standing by the car and holding a gun. The woman said Rhee ordered her to get into the back seat of her car if she wanted to live.

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