Hate crime

A recent report found New York City had seen an 833 percent annual increase in reported anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic.

Elliot, 38, was taken into custody at 1.10 a.m. in Manhattan's Lower East Side on Wednesday, the New York Police Department confirmed to Newsweek.

Forty-one percent of Asians surveyed said people have acted as if they don't speak English, and about two-thirds reported being asked "Where are you from?"

Local and federal leaders spoke out against the ongoing increase in violence and hate targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities this week, as videos emerged of two new attacks in New York City.

"We continue to see these horrible, disgusting attacks on Asian American New Yorkers and it's got to end," the New York City mayor said.

"We cannot put into words the pain of becoming the subject of hatred and violence for such a reason," the K-pop group said in a statement.

Since its inception, the designation of "hate crime" has been embraced by law enforcement for its redirection of focus and funding from addressing the root causes of crime to prosecuting individual acts.

"There's no question that the shootings in Atlanta ... has emphasized what many of us have been saying for months: that this is a growing problem that has to be addressed," Arkansas State Senator Jim Hendren told Newsweek.

The best way to stop these crimes, no matter what motivated them, is to bolster police forces and prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law.

All good people should be furious at this spate of attacks. But what we shouldn't do is use it as an excuse to blame Black people, as some have done.

It's no longer acceptable to be complacent about the over-sexualization of Asian women in the media as a performance for the male gaze.

Police believe the same man assaulted two Asian seniors within an hour on Wednesday morning in San Francisco.

The man who survived his attack said he woke up in an icy bath as the attacker used a knife on him.

Gregory A. Bush pleaded guilty on Thursday to racially charged shootings at a Jeffersontown, Kentucky grocery store from October 2018.

"We hope that the U.S. side will lend an ear to the cries of its own people and the international community," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters.

Georgia's new hate crime law was spurred by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and signed by Governor Brian Kemp last year.

Is the killing of those Asian women the incident that turns the tide against anti-Asian racism?

Since-deleted social media posts suggest that the shooting suspect was re-baptized by the Crabapple First Baptist Church about three years ago.

"Call a hate crime what it is," tweeted actor George Takei. "And GOP leaders, stop fanning violence with anti-Asian rhetoric. You should be ashamed at what you have unleashed."

"Using the term 'China virus' to describe the coronavirus and COVID-19 is inaccurate and unacceptable," the Asian American Bar Association of Ohio said in a Saturday statement.

The owners of the Mad Butcher Meat Company store, who are of Chinese descent, said they had been left "shaken" by the incident.

The Oakland Police Department said a Berkeley man has been taken into custody after allegedly posting "disturbing messages" directed at the Asian community.

Dr. Jennifer Susan Wright, 58, is charged with a hate crime in connection with the incident on January 20, the day of President Joe Biden's inauguration.

The actress is latest celebrity to speak out against rise of violence against Asian Americans, following an attack on her friend's mother in New York.

Police are investigating the vandalism of the Temple Beth Shalom building and a Holocaust memorial in Spokane as a hate crime.

Messages on the tape used to attach the nooses to the bleachers read "Let them play!" and "Hear us now! Please!".

Rodney Bryant is accused of threatening driver with a pellet gun that was indistinguishable from a real firearm.

The incident occurred as the congregation was preparing to light the menorah for Hanukkah at the University of Kentucky's Jewish Student Center in Lexington.

Richard Bradley Stevens, 41, was charged in what Edmonton Police described as a "hate-motivated" assault.

Daniel Stueck allegedly yelled racist slurs at neighbor, who officers said the 41-year-old was blaming for recent thefts.