2021-04-05 04:35:46 GMT2021-04-05 12:35:46(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW YORK, April 4 (Xinhua) Over 10,000 Asian Americans gathered in New York on Sunday for a Stop-Asian-Hate rally.
The demonstrators assembled at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, and marched to City Hall Park and across the Brooklyn Bridge before ending at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn.
Local officials, victims of hate crimes and people from various ethnic communities participated in the event.
The Asian participants included Chinese Americans and hundreds of people with Nepali, Myanmar or Malaysian origins.
During the event, John Chan, convener of New York-based Asian American advocacy group the Coalition of Asian Americans for Civil Rights (CAACR) and chairman of Asian American Community Empowerment, lashed out at the inaction of the government in the face of rising anti-Asian hate crimes in New York.
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