streets of atlanta at a rally being held after a gunman killed eight people, most of them asian women, in a shooting spree. words matter when it s a police representative saying the suspect was, quote, having a bad day. and when the law enforcement community refuses to label it a hate crime to the confusion of the son of one of the women killed. you can t say that this isn t racially motivated. you don t kill eight people on a bad day. let alone one. and words really matter when they come from the very top. words have consequences. it s the coronavirus, full stop. scapegoating asian-americans, people with the biggest pulpits spreading this kind of hate. the president and vice president making a clear and unmistakable connection between alarming rise in asian-american violence and donald trump s repeated references to covid as the china virus and worse. one year ago, trump was given fair warning that his words matter and were putting people at risk. why do you keep
spreader events and hot spots for college students. we re covering it all, and also, my special report this hour, thousands of immigrants still waiting to be reunited with families even after donald trump s muslim immigration ban has, in fact, been lifted. i m going to take a deeper look at that later on this hour. but we first want to start in atlanta where a rally organized by stop aapi hate is in full swing. marchers, they re calling for an end to anti-asian-american violence in the wake of this week s shooting. deepa is in atlanta for us with all this. good to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this. talk us through what you re seeing on the ground here and what you re hearing from folks, what changes, what real changes do they want to see? reporter: yasmin, that s right. it s been an emotional week in atlanta in the area and today as well, about a thousand rally goers here gathering at the steps of the capitol, now marching towards further into downtown
based on videos like these. did bear spray lead to his death? as many as 40 cars in a massive pileup people forces to jump off a bridge to get out of the way. the major highway shutdown fighting hate. protests on both coasts today after the rise in attacks on asian americans. the nypd now searching for this attacker the surgeon s warning. a doctor zooms into a court hearing for a traffic violation while he s in the middle of surgery. are you available for trial? it kind of looks like you re in an operating room right now. plus the emotional story behind this man learning to walk again and the nfl legend cheering him on. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening it has been 75 days since the u.s. administered the first vaccine for covid. since then more than 70 million shots have been given with some 22 million people fully vaccinated but it s been a frustrating journey getting to this point, one plagued by long lines and shortages
San Francisco State professor Russell Jeung, who last year left Stop AAPI Hate to return to teaching full time, said he has subsequently seen the movement grow and mature as it charts its path without him.
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