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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2021 22:42:46 GMT
An elderly woman being attacked on Market Street in San Francisco Wednesday – the latest victim in a wave of attacks on Asians in the Bay Area – turned the tables on her assailant, leaving him with injuries that required a trip to the hospital.
The incident happened at Market St. and Charles J. Brenham Place near McAllister St. at around 10:30 a.m. San Francisco police said they are investigating an aggravated assault by a man who appears to be in his 30s on a 70-year-old woman.
Coming upon the scene during his morning run was KPIX Sports Director Dennis O’Donnell.
“There was a guy on a stretcher and a frustrated angry woman with a stick in her hand,” O’Donnell says.
The victim appears to have suffered an injury to the side of her face and eye and was seen holding an ice pack to her face. Police said both the assailant and the victim were taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Witnesses told KPIX 5 they saw the woman pummeling the assailant. In a video taken at the scene, the alleged assailant is handcuffed to a stretcher with his face bloodied. The sobbing victim appears to berate the man and wave what looks to be a wooden board at him as he’s being taken away.
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“You bum, why did you hit me?” the woman said to the man on the stretcher in Chinese.
The woman then turned to the crowd of people who had gathered, saying, “This bum, he hit me,” as she raised the stick she held and sobbed. “He hit me, this bum,“ she repeated.
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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2021 21:44:07 GMT
Actress Lucy Liu talks to CNN's Erin Burnett about the rise in attacks against Asian Americans. Lucy Liu was the lowest paid lead actress in 'Charlie's Angels.' She was called "too Asian" for romcom roles at the height of her career. Now she's speaking out about the state of a nation with anti-Asian hate crimes happening at a staggering rate. On her socials this weekend, Lucy quoted a "rise of hate crimes at 1,900 percent against Asian Americans," adding that 68 percent of those crimes are happening to women specifically. What does this high-profile Asian American woman think about it all? http://instagram.com/p/CMiZprcgcDr 'It's Going To Get Worse' The actress isn't optimistic. "I think the recent murders in Atlanta have brought attention to the fact that so many Asians are being targeted," Lucy says in the live interview that she later posted to her IG. "I think culturally we are not a people that speak out," she adds, speculating that even more hate crimes have and will continue to occur. "I do think it's going to get worse before it gets better."
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2021 20:07:32 GMT
The victims Authorities released the names of all eight people killed: Delaina Ashley Yuan, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Grant, Suncha Kim, and Yong Ae Yue. Six of the eight killed were women of Asian descent, several of them immigrants to the United States who worked in the spas. Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, was shot multiple times steps away from Young’s Asian Massage spa but survived.
The rise in hate and violence against Asians The shootings come at a time of ongoing alarm over a rise in violence and hateful incidents against people of Asian descent in the United States, particularly amid the coronavirus pandemic, given the racist rhetoric inveighed against Asians over the virus that first appeared in China. In his first national address as president last week, Biden condemned the reported surge in attacks against Asian Americans, saying that they “must stop.”
Roughly 7.6 percent of the population of Georgia’s Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, is of Asian descent.
A new study released on Tuesday showed that were almost 4,000 incidents targeting Asians in the U.S. over the past year, and as NBC News reports, according to that research, Asian women were more than twice as likely to be targeted as Asian men:
New data has revealed over the past year, the number of anti-Asian hate incidents — which can include shunning, slurs and physical attacks — is greater than previously reported … The research released by reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate on Tuesday revealed nearly 3,800 incidents were reported over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic. It’s a significantly higher number than last year’s count of about 2,800 hate incidents nationwide over the span of five months. Women made up a far higher share of the reports, at 68 percent, compared to men, who made up 29 percent of respondents. The nonprofit does not report incidents to police …
The data, which includes incidents that occurred between March 19 of last year and Feb. 28 of this year, shows that roughly 503 incidents took place in 2021 alone. Verbal harassment and shunning were the most common types of discrimination, making up 68.1 percent and 20.5 percent of the reports respectively. The third most common category, physical assault, made up 11.1 percent of the total incidents. More than a third of incidents occurred at businesses, the primary site of discrimination, while a quarter took place in public streets.
Across social media, there was an outpouring of grief from the Asian community.
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2021 6:23:52 GMT
“A deep well of shame” actress Margaret Cho on how Asian Americans experience racism
For more on the history of and recent rise in anti-Asian American racism and hate crimes, Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy & Grammy-nominated comedian and actress Margaret Cho joins Hari Sreenivasan. She speaks about her own family’s experience with racism in America, the model minority myth, and the way Asians are perceived in America.
Hari Sreenivasan:
Margaret, what's been going through your mind, your heart in the last few weeks and months as we've seen this escalation of crimes against Asians?
Margaret Cho:
It's really wondering all about all of the incidents that are not reported, because I think, at least from my family, we have such a deep well of shame when it comes to racism and how much we don't want to upset other members of our family, of our community by sharing what happened. I think this practice comes out of PTSD from wartime, you know, and having all of these things occur in your family's history. And then to bring it over here looking for the American dream, for some kind of escape from all of the trauma that we experience there. And then to have this new, new terrible thing, racism, which my family experienced, such intense racism coming to San Francisco from Korea in 1964 that they've never discussed. And I think all of these incidents now bring up so much shame, so much heartache, so much past trauma that I'm sure this is so underreported.
Hari Sreenivasan:
Do you think that this is part of why perhaps this community is perceived as more of a soft target? We see more women being targeted than men. We see more elderly people. There's a sort of perception maybe that is fueling this.
Margaret Cho:
It comes from the model minority myth, which I really reject the term model minority because it really denotes that we are in existence purely for the performative value for white people and to pit us against other quote unquote, minorities. It is really dehumanizing. I notice that they're attacking the elderly that are attacking elderly women. Older Asian-American women are being targeted, which puts me in a very high target category.
Hari Sreenivasan:
The intersection between how we perceive Asian women, sexuality and race. Tie that together for us.
Margaret Cho:
It's race and gender and identity. All of these things kind of go into whether or not this is a hate crime. Obviously, what happened in Atlanta is a hate crime. He was targeting Asian women because of the way they made me feel and also the way that it was all framed by the Atlanta authorities was very disappointing in that it was this huge effort to somehow humanize this murderer who had a bad day, who was trying to get some kind of relief for his sex addiction. So there's so much that we have to unpack when we're even looking at this incident from the perspective of the news that we're like allowing them to frame it as a bad day. It's way more than a bad day.
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2021 1:13:55 GMT
Former NBA star Jeremy Lin says he's seen a rise in racism across the United States, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper that the type of attacks against Asian Americans is intensifying.
Jeremy Lin: I worry I encourage hatred by speaking out
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