A few days ago you may have come across the story of some MAGA-hatted Asians who were assaulted in DC:

A Twitter account proudly posted a short video clip on April 30 showing several street thugs harassing a group of Asian tourists who were wearing MAGA hats.

“Not Around Here Pimp…Ain’t None Of That Make America Great Again Sh*t,” wrote “Bigalow Black,” who hails from Washington D.C., and Miami, according to his Twitter profile.

The video shows a group of black men surrounding the Asians, grabbing the MAGA hats off their heads, and throwing one of them in the air before stomping on it. It’s not clear whether the hats were returned or if the police were called…

The tweet, which highlights an ugly and disgraceful attack on innocent tourists, was retweeted 3.8 thousand times and liked 7.9 thousand times.

Just another day in Trump’s America, and of course it’s Trump’s fault.

Now it emerges that the MAGA-hat tourists had a special history:

“The Asians wearing MAGA hats were not just tourists,” Wendy Wright, president of Christian Freedom International, told PJ Media. “They are North Korean defectors and South Koreans who get rice, medicine, and Bibles into North Korea and North Korean defectors out.”

The attack happened in Washington, D.C, Wright said.

Just days before President Trump met with Kim Jong-un in February, North Korea announced that it was facing a food crisis. Daily rations were cut and it was reported that 41 percent of North Koreans were undernourished. These Korean aid workers were in America as part of an effort to bring relief to starving North Koreans…

Wright told PJ Media by email that members of the group had bought the hats Monday night in a souvenir shop in Washington and that the assault happened Tuesday morning — the day Bigalow Black posted the video on Twitter. The thugs stole three of their hats, but the group didn’t call the police, according to Wright. “They were not hurt, but they said that may be because they did not fight back,” Wright said.

She told PJ Media that the Koreans were shocked that something like this could happen in America.

“They came from a totalitarian country that does not allow free speech or freedom of thought, and could not believe this assault on belief would take place in the U.S.,” she explained. “They were really shocked that this could happen and knew it was not random vandalism but it was an assault on free speech.”

The irony here is incredibly thick.

This incident encapsulates so many things that are wrong with the left today, but in particular its dangerous and many-pronged assault on free speech. It is often remarked on by those who escaped from totalitarian leftist countries that they came to the US for that very freedom, and lately it pains them tremendously to see the same threats to liberty occurring with increasing frequency. This incident may have been small in terms of actual physical harm done, but it is ominous for what it says about the state of our nation.