Not a single hate crime against Asian Americans had been reported to the NYPD in 2020. But by the end of that year, there were 30 — a 900-percent surge from just three recorded in 2019.
at the same time hospitalizations peaked, CSHE data shows. Sinophobic language also surged on Twitter.After the murder of George Floyd and the, June 2020 “was the worst period nationally” for anti-black hate crimes since records have been kept, Levin said. And after the first Muslim travel ban was proposed in 2015, hate crimes against the group spiked by 23 percent.
Bew Jirajariyawetch’s face was full of bruises and cuts after being assaulted and mugged by an attacker.“There’s more training that can be done for people to understand what a hate crime or hate incident is. Too often, incidents based on animosity towards race are minimized or are swept under the rug,” said John C. Yang, the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian American Justice Center.
Also compounding the issue are the barriers Asian Americans face in reporting crimes to the police, advocates said. Residents join community and business leaders for a rally in Chinatown to denounce acts of violence against Asian-Americans on January 20, 2022.“There seems to be a lack of confidence in reporting to police, both from a demoralization standpoint that they won’t be taken seriously but also some fear, especially if you’re undocumented or English isn’t your language,” Wei said.
“The use of the N-word, we know that’s a bad thing. Everyone’s relatively careful about anti-Latino hate. I don’t know that there’s that same sense about Asians,” said Mulvaney, the professor from John Jay College.DCPI Christina Yuna Lee was killed after being stabbed 40 times outside her apartment after someone followed her into her building.“A lot of our curriculum looked at brown people, black people. You know, to be honest, Asians were kind of an afterthought because they were not being victimized at the level others were,” he said. “Now that they are, we take a step back and say, “Hmm, perhaps we should be paying more attention.
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