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· Michelle De Pacina
2 Sikh men assaulted and robbed days after another Sikh man punched in the same Queens neighborhood
Two Sikh men, aged 76 and 64, went on a morning walk in Richmond Hill, Queens when two men approached and beat them with their fists and a stick on April 12. One suspect has been arrested while the other suspect is still at large. The New York Police Department (NYPD) are…
· Bryan Ke
BLM sign vandalized to read ‘Asian’ instead of ‘Black’ being investigated as hate crime by Palo Alto PD
The Palo Alto Police Department has launched a hate crime investigation after a woman’s Black Lives Matter sign was vandalized and had the word “Black” replaced with “Asian” on April 5. The unidentified vandal reportedly used adhesive to stick paper to the BLM yard sign, causing…
· Carl Samson
Vancouver woman on trial for anti-Asian attack is filmed using anti-Asian slur on her way to court
Astrid Maria Secreve, a co-defendant of a March 2021 mischief case involving an Asian Canadian coffee shop manager, was filmed directing a racist slur at a camera operator while heading to court on Friday. The video of the incident shows Secreve yelling an expletive and an…
· Michelle De Pacina
Indian student fatally shot outside Toronto subway in what family suspects is hate crime
Kartik Vasudev, a 21-year-old international Indian student at Seneca College, was shot eight times at the Sherbourne subway station in Toronto while on his way to a part-time job on April 7. He was pronounced dead shortly after being rushed to St. Michael’s Hospital. The…
· Ryan General
Woman, 72, agrees to sell home after alleged anti-Asian hate crime, flashing her Vietnamese neighbor
An elderly woman in Washington who was accused of a hate crime against her Vietnamese neighbor last year has agreed to sell her home to pay the victim $45,000. Jan Myers, 72, was charged with a hate crime on Thursday for harassing her neighbor Thi Pham in April 2021.
· Carl Samson
NYC man who attacked 7 Asian women in 3 hours charged with hate crimes
Steven Zajonc, 28, has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor hate crime charges for attacking seven Asian women on Feb. 27, Manhattan prosecutors said on Monday. The attacks reportedly began at around 6:30 p.m. near Madison Avenue and East 30th Street in Midtown and ended near…
· Carl Samson
Elderly Sikh man suffers broken nose after being punched from behind in early morning NYC attack
Nirmal Singh, 70, was heading to a Queens temple on Sunday morning when someone reportedly approached him from behind and punched him in the face. The elderly victim, who is visiting the U.S. from Canada, said via a translator that he has only been in New York for two weeks. The…
· Carl Samson
Anti-Asian hate incidents up by 47% in Canada, report reveals
A total of 943 hate incidents were reported in Canada in 2021, marking a 47% increase from the previous year. Women, children and East Asians composed the majority of the reports. Nearly half (48%) of the incidents occurred in public spaces, including parks, streets and…
· Carl Samson
NYC Asian elderly are not leaving their homes over fears of being attacked, study finds
Community-based organizations focused on helping Asian seniors have reported that many of them are not leaving their homes over fears of being attacked, according to a new study by the Asian American Federation’s Seniors Working Group (SWG). The seniors would not leave their…
· Carl Samson
‘Imagine a treasury of millions of dollars’: Andrew Yang pioneers DAO for AAPI causes
Andrew Yang last week launched GoldenDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on advancing “AAPI solidarity and empowerment.” DAOs are online organizations that aim to accomplish goals with the aid of blockchain technology. “Imagine a treasury of millions of…
· Carl Samson
GoFundMe page launched for 67-year-old Filipino woman punched 125 times in Yonkers
A GoFundMe page has been launched for the 67-year-old Filipino victim of an anti-Asian attack in Yonkers, New York, on March 11. Surveillance footage shows 42-year-old Tammel Esco punching the victim more than 125 times, stomping on her seven times and spitting on her. The…
· Carl Samson
Man who shoved Michelle Go to her death deemed unfit to stand trial
Simon Martial, the man accused of fatally shoving Michelle Go, was found mentally unfit to stand trial on Tuesday. At the time of his arrest, Martial confessed to pushing Go in front of an oncoming train and said he did it “because I’m God.” The 61-year-old has been diagnosed…
· Grace Kim
Chef My Nguyen shares emotional story of childhood abuse: ‘Our voices and stories need to be heard’
Over the weekend, Chef My Nguyen shared in a now viral TikTok an incident she looks back on as her “first experience with Asian hate.” “It was teachers — that I trusted. They used to abuse me,” she says in the video. Nguyen recalls the moments when she was 4 or 5 years old that…
· Carl Samson
Yonkers police slam YouTube for ‘censorship’ of footage showing Asian woman being punched 125 times
New York’s Yonkers Police Department called out YouTube on Monday for removing its uploaded video of an anti-Asian attack. The video included surveillance footage of an attack against a 67-year-old Asian American woman in Yonkers, which spurred headlines and protests earlier…
· Bryan Ke
No jail time for man who shoved 92-year-old Asian man with dementia in Vancouver, says judge
Jamie Bezanson, the man who attacked a 92-year-old Asian man with severe dementia at a 7-Eleven in East Vancouver on March 13, 2020, will not be facing prison time. Bezanson received a conditional discharge and was given a one-year probation during his hearing on Monday. Judge…
· Ryan General
Son of GuiYing Ma arrives from China for her funeral after visa help from Reps. Meng, Ocasio-Cortez
GuiYing Ma, 61, died of traumatic injuries in February, months after Elisaul Perez reportedly bashed her in the head with a rock in November of last year. Her son, Yang Gao, flew from China to the U.S. after Reps. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) secured…
· Jane Nam
‘It came out of nowhere’: ‘The Boys’ star Karen Fukuhara says she was victim of hate crime attack
Japanese American actress Karen Fukuhara, known for her roles in “Suicide Squad” and “The Boys,” posted on her Instagram yesterday, March 16, that she had been struck in the head earlier that day in what she described as a “hate crime.” “It came out of nowhere,” wrote Fukuhara.…
· Carl Samson
Nearly 3 Million AAPIs experienced a hate incident since 2021, national survey data suggests
Nearly 3 million AAPI adults have experienced a hate incident since the beginning of 2021, a new survey suggests. The estimate dwarfs figures of self-reported cases from community monitoring websites, indicating that anti-Asian hate is more widespread than some may realize. The…
· Jane Nam
Hundreds of Asian Americans line up for pepper spray in New York City after latest anti-Asian attack
In a line that wrapped past the block, hundreds of New Yorkers waited anxiously to get their hands on canisters of pepper spray last weekend. Michelle Alyssa Tran, the founder of “Soar Over Hate,” a New York City-based nonprofit committed to combating anti-Asian hate, tweeted on…
· Carl Samson
Advocates call for $64.5MM state budget for AAPI after brutal Yonkers attack on elderly Filipino woman
Local leaders, advocates and supporters gathered at Yonkers City Hall on Tuesday to denounce last Friday’s attack against an elderly Filipino woman. The victim, 67, was punched in the head and face more than 125 times, stomped on seven times and spat on by a man who called her…