A 54-year-old Long Beach woman suspected of hurling racist verbal attacks at Asian Americans in a pair of viral videos at Charles Wilson Park in Torrance in June received a 45-day jail sentence on Tuesday, Oct. 6 in an unrelated incident. Lena Hernandez pleaded no contest to battery involving an assault on an Asian American woman at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance in October 2019. In addition to the county jail term, she must serve three years of informal probation and take 52 anger management classes, said Torrance City Attorney Patrick Sullivan. Prosecutors said Hernandez verbally assaulted a custodian at the mall, then physically attacked Kayceelyn Salminao, who tried to intervene. Hernandez was ordered to return to Torrance Superior Court for surrender Nov. 10 after taking the plea deal Tuesday. Salminao’s attorney, Sandy Roxas, said they were disappointed in the court’s decision to not sentence Hernandez to the maximum of six months for […]
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