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The rise in harassment and violence against Asian Americans during 2020 accompanied the often bigoted and stigmatizing rhetoric of former President Donald Trump and his right-wing political allies in response to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Violent attacks against Asian American elders have left the community reeling, especially across Chinatowns from New York to San Francisco. Now they're looking for ways to protect themselves.
'Stop killing us': Attacks on Asian Americans highlight rise in hate incidents amid COVID-19 N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY 'Stop killing us': Asian Americans decry spike in violent attacks amid pandemic Replay Video UP NEXT A series of violent crimes against Asians and Asian Americans has prompted activists and experts to warn that racist rhetoric about the coronavirus pandemic may be fueling a rise in hate incidents. Police in Oakland, California, announced this week that they arrested a suspect in connection with a brutal attack of a 91-year-old man in Chinatown that wa...
Print A spate of high-profile assaults on Asian Americans has renewed long-standing criticism from Democrats and civil rights groups that the U.S. government is vastly undercounting hate crimes, a problem that they say has grown more acute amid rising white nationalism and deepening racial strife. The attacks - including several in Northern California over the past month that attracted national attention - followed months of warnings from advocates that anti-China rhetoric from former president Donald Trump over the coronavirus pandemic was contributing to a surge in anti-Asian slurs and vi...
The Justice Department’s efforts to report and track such incidents have been beset by incomplete and inconsistent data from the nation’s 18,000 local law enforcement agencies.