menendez, and we are breaking news out of california. lloyd forsman sediment described as a positive suspect in the monterey park shooting is dead. officials are expected to hold a press in the next half hour they take a look at the case, we will see it here on american voices life. law enforcement, earlier today, expected a white man they believe was connected the gunman. the man was nearby towards california, the men inside who was possibly the suspect is dead. saturday night, ten people were killed inside the dance studio. ten more were injured. working with the worst mass shooting out of that state in recent memory. the shooting have been near the city s lunar new year celebration. thousands have gathered saturday night in the predominantly asian community. police, today, released this photo of who they believe is the suspect. he s a scrap as an older asian male with a dark complexion wearing glasses, and started about five foot ten and 150 pounds. here s how wanted witne
whether we will ever have a seat at the table. truly profound question. karoun, thanks so much for time tonight. that is it for american voices. i m alicia mendes, as we continue to follow this breaking story, and this press conference. 100 over two hello mehdi. hello, alicia. horrific day of breaking news. the worst kind of breaking news. we are now waiting for police press conference on the shooting in california. that is gonna be a very important press conference. it s good beaver in portland press conference, a lot of big questions still outstanding. mehdi, of course, this question of public safety. you heard representative shoe saying she had people come up to her all day saying, can i send my kids to school? then i go to another event that is planned. trying to reassure them. and then of course questions about motives i what is driving the suspect to commit this horrific. act and this a lot we don t know, mehdi, about the victims. we know there are ten people de
Most affected. by this particularly tragic the. specifically. but also, in terms of the resources. the aapi community is one of the lease rescore s communities in the united states. less than, i think, 3% of all found trumpet dollars actually go to aapi communities. when things like this happen were already short of short staffed and under-resourced. and it adds to the level of trauma because when you are trying to provide resources to the community. we are trying to activate a community. we are trying to keep them specifically. and the resources just aren t there. it makes you wonder whether this america, that we have fought so hard and so long to try to belong to.