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NEW YORK — Andrew Yang called for the NYPD Asian Hate Crime Task Force to be fully funded during a press conference Wednesday, in the wake of a mass shooting in Georgia and a steep uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes this year and last in New York. “What started out as invisibility or a sense of foreignness has now become hatred, violence, assault [and] people feeling that we do not belong in our own country or in our own streets,” Yang, a leading mayoral candidate, told reporters during a hastily arranged press conference in Times Square. Yang, the son of Taiwanese immigrants who would ...

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Photo credit Getty Images March 17, 2021 03/17/2021 3:29 pm NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A man poured an unknown liquid on an Asian woman and told her to go “back to China” in a hate crime attack in midtown Manhattan on Monday, according to a report. The 41-year-old woman was bending down to pick up packages near West 37th Street and 8th Avenue around 7 p.m. on Monday when the man approached her and poured the liquid “on her neck and on her packages,” the NYPD told the Daily News. “Go back to China,” the man said at some point during the attack...

"I called for help but nobody came for help," said a Filipino man who was slashed across the face on a subway.

The incident comes amid a string of violent attacks on Asian American New Yorkers that have concerned communities and public officials.