More Coverage L.A. County is home to some of the largest populations in the United States of Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Korean, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese and Thai Americans, according to the motion. D’Artagnan Scorza, the county’s executive director of racial equity, said at Tuesday’s board meeting that since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an exponential growth in violence and hate against Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. In 2020, Los Angeles police saw a 114% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes, Scorza said. Advertisement “This has occurred largely because of very public and racist rhetoric rooted in harmful stereotypes,” Scorza said.