As the political rhetoric blaming China for the pandemic escalates, law enforcement officials have seen an increasing number of hate crimes and incidents of harassment and discrimination against Asian Americans.
being shunned, verbally abused, name-called, coughed and spat on, even physically assaulted as the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend American life. As the political rhetoric blaming China for the pandemic escalates, law enforcement officials and human rights advocates have seen an increasing number of hate crimes and incidents of harassment and discrimination against Asian Americans.
“We have a large Asian population, and we have a lot of elderly Asian population who are getting scared to death about being preyed upon by somebody who’s willing to resort to that behavior,” said Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney of Alameda County, where Asians are 32% of the population. “You have one ethnic group that’s targeted … and ignorant people who think they can just scream at somebody because of their ethnicity. ... We cannot tolerate that.
In Seattle, schoolteacher Kert Lin was driving into a Home Depot parking lot when another driver screamed at him:"Open your eyes! Go back to China!"
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