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● Warning: this article contains discussion of suicide from the start Margaret Cho … ‘The model minority thing made me want to rebel against it’ Photograph: Albert Sanchez Margaret Cho … ‘The model minority thing made me want to rebel against it’ Photograph: Albert Sanchez Thu 1 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 04.52 EDT The thing about being a standup comedian is that you can never turn off that part of your brain, not even when you are trying to kill yourself. ...

Guest Columnist An Thuy Nguyen: On a quilt of oppressions and injustices U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speak during a "stop Asian hate" rally outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, March 20. AP PHOTO/BEN GRAY Published: 4/1/2021 11:56:47 AM The deadly mass shooting targeting Asian American women working at massage parlors in Atlanta, GA is neither a tragic happenstance, nor an isolated case of a (sexually) frustrated white man having “...

The Excuse of Struggle April 1, 2021 On March 16, 2021, a lone gunman killed 8 people in a shooting spree targeting Asian-run massage parlors. Two people killed were patrons but 6 were the workers: women of Asian descent. Lots of speculation about the killer’s motives have been posited. Most see this as a clearly racism-fueled incident. Others are less willing to make this claim. They counter that just because the victims were Asian workers at an Asian-run establishment, that doesn’t mean h...

US massage parlour shootings suspect may have sexual addiction, police say, after eight killed A white man accused of killing eight people, most of whom were of Asian descent, at massage parlours in the Atlanta area told police the attack was not racially motivated and that he potentially had a "sexual addiction", officials said Wednesday. A photo supplied by the Crisp County Sheriffs Office of Robert Aaron Long.(AP) Still, authorities said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate ...

8 dead in Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings, suspect arrested Phil Helsel © Provided by NBC News A man captured in Georgia on Tuesday night is suspected in three shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors or spas that killed eight people, officials said. Four people were killed in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, around 5 p.m., and four women died in two shootings in Atlanta less than an hour later, authorities said. The four killed in Atlanta appeared to be Asian women, ...

A 21-year-old man was taken into custody in south-west Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said. Police confirmed on Wednesday that the suspect is white. The attacks began at around 5pm on Tuesday when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlour near Woodstock, 50 miles north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Captain Jay Baker said. Two people died at the scene and three were taken to hospital where two more died, Mr Baker said. Police in the Buckhead ne...

3 dead in shooting at Georgia spa; suspect at large Cherokee Sheriff’s OfficeBy IVAN PEREIRA and MATT FOSTER, ABC News (ACWORTH, Ga.) — At least three people were killed in shootings at a spa in Acworth, Georgia, on Tuesday, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office. When responding to the location, deputies found two people dead and three injured. The three injured were taken to to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where one later died, said Capt. Jay Baker, director of communication...

8 dead in Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings, suspect arrested Phil Helsel © Provided by NBC News A man captured in Georgia on Tuesday night is suspected in three shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors or spas that killed eight people, officials said. Four people were killed in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, around 5 p.m., and four women died in two shootings in Atlanta less than an hour later, authorities said. The four killed in Atlanta appeared to be Asian women, ...

Photos: The scene in Georgia following several shootings By Shannon Larson Globe Staff,Updated March 17, 2021, 12:48 a.m. Email to a Friend Authorities were investigating a fatal shooting at a massage parlor, late Tuesday, in Woodstock, Ga. Officials say 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia, has been captured hours after multiple people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors.Mike Stewart Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs l...

8 people killed, including at least 4 women, in shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlours A 21-year-old man has been arrested in southwest Georgia, hours after eight people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlours. Four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent, according to the South Korea Foreign Ministry. Social Sharing The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 16, 2021 10:17 PM ET | Last Updated: March 17 Law enforcement officials confer outside a massage parlo...