28 assault of 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee, an immigrant from Thailand. In nearby San Francisco, prosecutors have charged a suspect in the fatal Jan. The Alameda County District Attorney in Oakland is creating a special response unit focused on anti-Asian American crimes. Law enforcement arrested a suspect in early February in connection with assaults on three elderly individuals. In the Bay Area, which has one of the highest concentrations of Asian Americans in the country, recent attacks have Asian American communities on edge. In a Los Angeles suburb, an Asian American teacher’s aide waiting for a bus was attacked, ending up with a severed finger. Last week, New York City police arrested a suspect in the violent assault of an Asian American woman outside a Queens bakery. Yang of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC.
“If you are trying to decrease the level of stigma, decrease the level of discrimination and hate and xenophobia … words matter,” said John C. An October 2020 Pew study found unfavorable views of China have reached highs across the world, including in the United States. The Anti-Defamation League has tracked dozens of incidents in detail, from anti-Asian verbal harassment on New York’s subway to racist signs in California and New Mexico. But under the new administration, the hate incidents have continued, prompting leaders and advocates to actively call for coalition building and better incident tracking.īetween mid-March and the end of 2020, Stop AAPI Hate, a project run by a coalition of organizations, received 2,808 reports of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans. Several studies point to the connection between hateful rhetoric and increased hate-motivated actions, and advocates and experts point to the way Trump spoke about the virus as a direct contributor to the increased crime. Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, there has been a marked uptick in hate crimes against Asian American communities in the United States. The suspect was charged with three counts of attempted capital murder and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and the FBI, when listing the attack as a hate crime, warned that similar incidents could surge across the country as some people associated COVID-19 with China and Asian Americans. “We never experienced anything like that before,” Cung told PBS NewsHour.Īn off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent and a Sam’s Club employee helped stop the attack, but not before Cung and two of his young children were injured. The racist theory emerged in the early days of the pandemic, fueled by former President Donald Trump’s use of the term “China virus” to describe COVID-19. The attacker was echoing a false allegation rooted in racism - that Chinese Americans were responsible for the pandemic that was quickly ravaging the country. Bawi Cung and his family were shopping at a Sam’s Club store in Midland, Texas, in March 2020 when they were attacked by a stranger who thought the Burmese-American family was Chinese and, in their mind, spreading the coronavirus to the community.
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