Asian Man Allegedly Attacks Falun Gong Practitioners at Brooklyn Parade

NEW YORK CITY—An Asian man attacked two female Falun Gong practitioners during a parade for the Chinese Mid Autumn Festival holiday in Brooklyn’s Chinatown on Sept. 14, according to witnesses. The parade was organized by the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, a New York-based organization that helps Chinese people renounce their ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Since its launch in late 2004, the group’s volunteers around the world and in mainland China have helped more than 435 million Chinese people quit the CCP. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual meditation practice that teaches the principles of truth, compassion, and tolerance. Upon its introduction to the public in China in 1992, it spread widely through word of mouth, and by 1999 official estimates put the number of practitioners at 70 million to 100 million. In 1999, the CCP launched a whole-of-state operation to “eradicate” Falun Gong....