Across the Bay Area, community groups continue to look for ways to better protect the Asian American community, in the wake of a record surge in threats and attacks.
The session is the first in a series of free community programs, provided instructions on conflict de-escalation, use of verbal commands, body movements, identifying pre-assault indicators, and safety and security assessments.
"We try to give a good foundation. A baseline of real things that might happen. We try to tailor to that. That’s why we, kind of go at them. We shout at them. We have them shout at us, because we want to make it as real as possible," said Doug Feliciano, director of facilities security for Santa Clara County.
There will be more sessions like this. Based on numbers from the group Stop Asian Hate, the violence against the AAPI community continues to grow.Another AAPI safety awareness session is happening at the Vietnamese American Service Center in San Jose this Thursday at 2 p.m.This article tagged under:
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