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Four members of a Muslim family of five in Canada were killed after being struck by a pickup truck in what police suspect to be a “planned, premeditated” attack, CBC reports. The driver, 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after he mounted the curb and hit […]
A Nashville, Tennessee hat shop is facing backlash for selling “Not Vaccinated” stick-on patches that resemble the yellow Star of David. Earlier this week, the hatWRKS store advertised the badges in a since-deleted Instagram post showing the shop’s owner, Gigi Gaskins, smiling and wearing a bright yellow star sticker with the words: “Not Vaccinated.” The post also mentioned that […]
A pair of Los Angeles radio hosts landed in hot water this week after performing a racially insensitive skit on air. KFI-AM radio host Tim Conway Jr. and his executive producer, Sheron Bellio, have been suspended a week without pay for an anti-Asian skit they performed on May 3, according to Deadline. In the five-minute skit, […]
Reports of Anti-Asian hate incidents surged from 3,795 to 6,603 in March of this year, according to new data from Stop AAPI Hate. This increase could be due to a number of factors, experts say, including both increased awarenes around the issue and the U.S. lifting COVID restrictions. “What we’ve always said is that racism could have […]
The NYPD are investigating a possible anti-gay hate crime that occurred inside a CVS in New York City over the weekend, NBC News reports. Police released surveillance video showing the unidentified attacker punching a man in the back of his head and neck as he was entering the drug store on Saturday. The suspect also hurled homophobic […]
A 53-year-old Ohio man who was filmed earlier this month shouting racial slurs at a Black woman and threatening to shoot her with an AK-47 has been charged. In one clip, the man—who CBS News reported has been identified as James Rhodes—is seen emerging from a car while shouting at the woman, identified as Kiauna […]
As anti-Asian hate continues to run rampant across the country, Olympic athlete Sakura Kokumai is the latest victim in a string of unprovoked, verbally abusive rants targeting Asian-Americans. The karate athlete is set to appear in the Tokyo Olympics this summer. As she was sitting in a park in Orange County, California, she says a man came up to […]
Hate crimes against Asian-Americans have been surging over the last year with the latest news of an assault happening in Tacoma, Washington. A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with the attack, discovered in a video which shows the teenager allegedly assaulting an Asian couple. The clip has been making the rounds on social media, […]
UPDATED 3/30, 12:05 p.m. ET: The person who recorded the video of the incident has said that the man that was repeatedly punched “appeared to be Hispanic” not Asian, ABC 7 NY’s CeFaan Kim reports. The person also said that the altercation began after the Black man was called the N-word. See original story below. The New York City Police Department’s […]
Video showing a 65-year-old Asian woman being attacked has surfaced, WABC-TV reports. The victim, who was allegedly subjected to anti-Asian statements by the attacker, is seen being kicked several times in the footage. “Fuck you, you don’t belong here,” the man allegedly yelled at the woman, the New York Post reports sources as saying. The woman suffered a fractured […]
