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· Carl Samson
California man charged for driving through Stop Asian Hate rally, yelling racial slurs
Steve Lee Dominguez, 56, was arrested on federal charges on Thursday for disrupting a Stop Asian Hate rally and yelling anti-Asian slurs in Diamond Bar, California. He reportedly ran a red light on March 21, 2021, and drove through about a dozen people who carried signs with…
· Daniel Anderson
New York City Council holds hearing on wave of anti-Asian hate crimes
New York City Council members convened on Tuesday for a hearing to address ongoing local anti-Asian hate issues. The hearing was conducted by the Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights and the Committee on Public Safety. According to Christopher Marte, a member who…
· Michelle De Pacina
‘This Asian face’: The artist behind the #StopAsianHate illustrations
Jonathan Chang, a Taiwanese designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles, is the creator behind iconic portraits of anti-Asian hate crime victims that were shown on billboards in Times Square during Michelle Go’s candlelight vigil. The illustrator says he wanted to honor his…
· Carl Samson
NYC repeat offender who hit Asian man with a hammer indicted on hate crime charges
Christian Jeffers, 48, was indicted on hate crime charges in connection with a violent attack against an Asian man on March 8, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday. The incident, which occurred on a Chelsea subway platform, allegedly saw Jeffers strike…
· Bryan Ke
Grand Island man charged with hate crime assault for hitting Asian woman with pool cue
Charles Vacanti, a 46-year-old Grand Island, New York, resident who attacked a woman of Asian descent at a dive bar last month, was arrested on April 20 and charged with one count of assault in the second degree as a hate crime and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in…
· Michelle De Pacina
NYPD data: 32 percent drop in reported anti-Asian hate crimes in 2022
Newly released data from the New York City Police Department shows that reported hate crimes against Asians have decreased from this time last year across New York City. There were 32 reported hate crimes against Asians from January 1 through April 10 of 2022, which marks a 32%…
· 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…
· 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
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
Bay Area heiress acquitted of killing ex-lover says she is a victim of anti-Asian hate
Tiffany Li, the Bay Area woman accused and then acquitted of killing her ex-boyfriend Keith Green, says she has been a “target” of anti-Asian hate and xenophobia during the years of her trial. Li’s statement comes as a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Green’s…
· Carl Samson
Repeat offender charged with hate crimes for punching NY elderly Asian woman over 125 times in the face
A 67-year-old Asian American woman in Yonkers, New York, was heading to her apartment when she passed by a man who called her an “Asian b*tch,” according to police. The man reportedly followed her to her building, punched her in the head and face more than 125 times, stomped on…
· Bryan Ke
Rally against anti-Asian hate crimes honors Atlanta spa shooting victims ahead of 1-year anniversary
Around 200 activists and community members gathered near the Young Girls Peace Monument in Brookhaven, Georgia, on Saturday ahead of the Georgia mass shooting anniversary on Wednesday. During last year’s incident, Robert Aaron Long reportedly shot and killed eight people,…
· Ryan General
‘Unprovoked’ razor blade attack on Asian man riding NYC subway being investigated as hate crime
A 41-year-old Asian man was reportedly riding a northbound J train in Manhattan when a stranger slashed his face with a razor blade. The alleged attack, which occurred at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday near the Delancey Street/Essex Street station, was described by authorities as…
· Bryan Ke
Texas man accused of knife attack on Asian family he blamed for pandemic pleads guilty to hate crimes
Jose Gomez III, 21, recently pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime for attacking a Burmese family, including a father and his 6-year-old son, at a Sam’s Club Warehouse in Midland, Texas, in March 2020. Gomez allegedly used a serrated steak knife that he bent…
· Carl Samson
Hate crime charges for man who punched elderly Asian woman because he ‘doesn’t like how Chinese people look’
Hoa Nguyen, 67, was heading to a grocery store on the morning of Jan. 19 in Brooklyn when someone approached her and punched her in the face three times. Mercel Jackson, 52, who was reported to be homeless, was arrested minutes after Nguyen’s son called 911. Jackson reportedly…
· Editorial Staff
Head of NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force reassigned amid complaints about treatment of Asian victims
Jessica Corey, head of the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force, was reassigned on Wednesday. The move came a day after an alleged incident involving mistreatment of an Asian American attack victim was brought to the attention of Mayor Eric Adams. In response,…
· Ryan General
Biden press secretary attributes anti-Asian hate crime spike to ‘hateful rhetoric’ about COVID-19 origins
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed “hateful rhetoric” about COVID-19’s origins for the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. A reporter asked a question about President Joe Biden’s plans to address the three-fold hate crime increase under the current administration. Psaki…
· Bryan Ke
‘Irreplaceable’ Christina Yuna Lee active in fight against Asian hate, coworker says in emotional message
Kenneth Takanami, a former co-worker of Christina Yuna Lee, revealed in an emotional tweet on Monday that Lee was an advocate fighting against anti-Asian hate. “Christina started at Splice around the same time as the Asian hate crime shootings in Atlanta. It was an emotional and…
· Carl Samson
Anti-Asian hate crimes up by 342% in 2021, new data shows
New York saw the highest number of anti-Asian hate crimes in 2021, according to data from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism in California State University, San Bernardino. Los Angeles surpassed other major U. S. cities in terms of overall hate crimes last year. Data…