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ince April, the San Diego County DA's office said it has received 116 tips through the reporting tool, about 10 of which were crimes allegedly perpetrated.
Lee is the co-chair of the San Diego Asian Pacific Islander (API) Coalition and executive director of Pacific Arts Movement (presenter of the San Diego Asian Film Festival), and lives in Mira Mesa.
The Asian Pacific Islander (API) community commemorated Lunar New Year on Friday, almost one year after the United States reported its first case of COVID-19 community transmission. Yet long before the pandemic’s inevitable spread, API communities were already dealing with another insidious disease racism and xenophobia.
As early as January 2020, reports surfaced of small businesses facing declining patronage and individuals across the country being victims of hate as the novel coronavirus began to spread globally. Fueled by the former president’s penchant for applying labels rather than applying strategic solutions, the uptick in anti-API sentiment was documented by the national Stop AAPI Hate campaign which saw 1,497 reported incidents in its first four weeks of existence.