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By LIU YINMENG in Los Angeles | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-19 08:24 Share CLOSE A protester expresses defiance at a rally in Millbrae, California, on Saturday in highlighting the types of violence experienced by Asian Americans. [LIU GUANGUAN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE] With no letup in racist violence in US, fears drive many to resort to self-defense More Asian Americans are arming themselves for protection amid a surge in violence and abuse directed at them during the coronavirus pandemic. Tim Hensley, general manager of Towers Armory, ...

Kinds of things, they have concluded that more than half of these kinds of shootings where the individual dies at the hands of police, that they have some sort of disability. are we doing enough to train our officers to prepare for these kinds of situations? >> i think -- i think not. here's what i say. sometimes we need to go it a distance. look at the shooting we just had at youtube. we had a woman -- i would say when the facts are in, more of her shots would miss then hit the target and she was standing right in the crowded lunch area. and she had been at the pistol range earlier. shooting ...

In law enforcement we're used to dealing with pistol range which is about 45 to 50 yards. in an active shooter situation you're talking 3, 600 yards. that's a good bit away. right now the most important thing they can do is stabilize themselves. i don't know how many people are in there. give us the idea of what kind of resources. yo can shoot a rifle 600 yards or so. you have a bunch of police officers and cruisers during the winter time that conditions may not be that great in terms of weather trying to approach this situation. are they going to have the kind of resources there? is this some...

Be that as it may, getting back to cultural training, sensitivity training, these are two elements that should be a part of in-service training. in most departments. the only thing that's required for police officers in their in-service training is to requalify on the pistol range. they need more training than just being able to shoot their firearm proficiently. they need sensitivity training, particularly when they are patrolling in areas that are ethnically, culturally, tainted towards or leaning towards one particular ethnic group. you can't ignore the sensitivities of those groups. i remem...

A reporter of him going out to dinner in houston over the weekend. he was hospitalized in november for a bronchitis-related cough. those are your headlines today. >> steve: we told you the terrible story yesterday about chris kyle who wrote that -- he's a former navy seal who wrote "american sniper". and he another fellow were working with a guy, eddie ray routh, and chad littlefield and chris were working with this guy, marine, reportedly had ptsd. it was all part of kyle's organization called fit go that encouraged vets to cope with it through exercise. then they went to a pistol range over ...