China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-03-11 09:00 Share CLOSE A storekeeper speaks with a police chief and Carl Chan, president of Oakland s Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, in California on Feb 16.The community is on heightened alert after recent increases in violent crimes against Asian Americans. STEPHEN LAM/GETTY IMAGES
Spike in violence against group coincided with negative associations with COVID-19
The increasing trend of violence and harassment against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders has been condemned in the United States.
Professional baseball team Los Angeles Dodgers released a statement on Tuesday, condemning xenophobic violence and intolerance against Asian Americans in the wake of the increase in hate crimes against the group across the country.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
A woman accused of spitting on an Asian American man and yelling an ethnic slur as he dined outdoors in Silicon Valley has been charged with a misdemeanor hate crime and battery, officials said.
Karen Inman, 39, told the man to “go back to where you came from” as he ate lunch with a friend Feb. 13, Santa Clara County prosecutors said in a statement Monday.
The case is the latest in a string of incidents of racially motivated harassment and assault against Asian Americans since the coronavirus hit the U.S. last year.
Inman first came to police attention the same day that the man was spat on after officers received a report of a woman taking food and clothing from a store.