Hundreds of people are volunteering to escort elderly Asian Americans to help keep them safe
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Share: Jacob Azevedo s stomach turned as he watched a disturbing video of an 84-year-old Thai American man who was fatally shoved to the ground on a sidewalk in San Francisco.
It was the second video of an unprovoked attack on an elderly Asian American that Azevedo, a resident of Oakland, had seen on social media out of the Bay Area within an hour, he told CNN.
Ever since the world learned of the new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, harassment and violence targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander community has rapidly increased across the United States.
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Oakland volunteers pledge to keep elderly Asian Americans safe after several high-profile attacks
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Itâs clear that the coronavirus pandemic has led to the increase of hate crimes across the country. Last spring, the United Nations reported that there were more than 1,800 racist incidents against Asian Americans in the U.S. in the span of just two months â many of them fueled by conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.
Whatâs more disturbing about those hate crimes is an apparent target on elderly Asian Americans. According to Stop AAPI Hate â an organization committed to stopping hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders â the group received 126 reports of hate crime incidents involving Asian Americans 60 years and older between March and December.