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Fashion Designers, Beauty Community Speak Out as Industry Stays Mum on Anti-Asian Violence Women s Wear Daily (WWD) 2/24/2021 Alexa Tietjen Updated: March 17 On March 16, shootings at three spas in the Atlanta, Ga. area left eight people six of whom were of Asian descent and seven of whom were women dead. The gunman, Robert Aaron Long, who is white, was captured on March 17. More from WWD Long told police he had previously frequented massage parlors and that he performed the shootings to eliminate his “temptation” due to a “sexual addiction,” according to The New York Times. The hate crime comes just days after Stop AAPI Hate reported that it had been notified of 3,795 hate incidents from its inception to Feb. 28 this year. Verbal harassment and shunning account for the majority of reported incidents, followed by physical assault. Women report hate incidents 2.3 times more than men, according to the report. ....