In NYC, the police department’s Hate Crime Task Force has investigated 11 cases in which Asian Americans were targeted because of the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson says.
Lisa Li, his wife and co-owner, said the windows were broken and a message was spray-painted in black on the restaurant’s exterior: “Take the corona back you chink.”
“This situation has been very hard on our family, and at times, there was definitely a lot of uncertainty,” Yan said. “But we expect to reopen once the quarantine ends.” Muyang Deng, a University of Wisconsin sophomore, shared a photo in March of words scrawled in chalk on campus grounds: "It's from China #chinesevirus."“I didn’t know what to say. I was really speechless,” Deng, who is originally from Zhenjiang, China, said through a translator. “At the time, there was already the term ‘Chinese virus,’ but I didn’t think this would happen this close to school.
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