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Courtesy Henry Litsky Antoinette Nguyen is heavily involved in activist work around campus, here she speaks to URAC protestors on March 4th. By Melanie Earle Features Editor April 18, 2021
“I think immediately I would say [I felt] a deep-seated sadness, and also with that comes a frustration and an anger about how this is not an isolated event,” Nguyen said. “It represents and symbolizes decades […] of oppression in America against Asian Americans.”
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Eight Killed, Including Six of Asian Descent, in Shootings Near Atlanta
The violence in Georgia unfolded days after US President Joe Biden used a nationally televised speech to condemn a recent surge in hate crimes and discrimination against Asian-Americans.
Crime scene tape surrounds Gold Spa after deadly shootings at a massage parlor and two day spas in the Atlanta area, in Atlanta, Georgia, US. March 16, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Chris Aluka Berry
World17/Mar/2021
Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks on Atlanta-area day spas on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the shootings was arrested hours later in southern Georgia, police said.
Asian American, Pacific Islander community leaders in LA urge action against hate crimes
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) One of the ugly trends during the pandemic has been the increase in hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. There have been cases caught on video of physical and verbal assaults. The number of hate incidents in this country continues to grow both in numbers as well as severity, said Connie Chung Joe with the group Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, from 2019 to 2020, hate crimes against Asian Americans in Los Angeles more than doubled, from seven in 2019 to 15 in 2020.