April 19, 2021
Just days after Vaisakhi the harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year America’s Sikh community was left petrified by a bloody massacre.
Among the eight victims who died in the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx Facility on April 15, four were Sikh.
“I have several family members who work at the particular facility and are traumatised,” community member Komal Chohan, whose 66-year-old grandmother Amarjeet Kaur Johal was among the victims, said in a Sikh Coalition press release. “My
nani (grandmother), my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere. Enough is enough our community has been through enough trauma.” Johal was found with a paycheck in hand, ready to leave to celebrate a grandchild’s birthday.
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New Jersey has the nation s third highest population of Asian Americans, behind Hawaii and California, the prosecutor s office said.
The state in 2019 had about 1 million residents who were Asians, Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
State officials have noted 37 bias incidents directed against Asian Americans in 2019, the last year for which statistics are available.
Overall, bias incidents in New Jersey totaled 994 in 2019, up from 569 a year earlier.
The higher number in part reflected a sharp increase in individual acts of interpersonal bias, especially against members of our Asian-American community. the director of the state s Division on Civil Rights, Rachel Wainer Apter, noted in announcing the latest numbers in October 2020.