An 18-year-old Carmel, Indiana, woman told investigators that while waiting for the doors of the bus to open, another passenger began to strike her repeatedly in the head, police said in a statement."This week, Bloomington was sadly reminded that anti-Asian hate is real and can have painful impacts on individuals and our community," said James Wimbush, Indiana University vice president of diversity, equity and multicultural affairs."We are outraged and heartbroken by this unprovoked act of violence, but we also worry for the well-being of our community."Police responded to a question about whether the attack is being investigated as a hate crime by pointing to the state’s relevant statute, which doesn’t provide for specific hate crime charges.Indiana's hate crime law, enacted in 2019, allows judges to consider harsher sentences where “bias” factors, including “color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion,” motivated the crime, according to the Matthew Shepard Foundation."