Georgia Shooting: The Latest In A Year Of Trauma And Terror For Asian Americans
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
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The pattern is clear: Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are being terrorized by harassment and violence. State representative Bee Nguyen tells NPR the shootings in Atlanta this week have rattled the Asian-American community in Georgia.
New York Congresswoman Grace Meng outlines a bill she's introduced to help address the issue.
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| 0:00.0 | In New York City, 25-year-old Maria Ha was walking down a Manhattan street when she noticed |
| 0:06.0 | a woman following her. |
| 0:07.6 | I kind of felt someone looking at me, so I started staring back. |
| 0:13.9 | And I realized she was looking at me and she came closer and closer at my eyes. |
| 0:19.1 | Ha told a local ABC station the woman got right in her face and said, you're not from here. |
| 0:25.3 | Go back to China. |
| 0:26.8 | She ran home to get her husband. When he arrived, the woman was getting into a cat. |
| 0:30.8 | To say that, raise the **** again. He's like, calm me, is China? |
| 0:34.2 | Well, isn't that where you're from? |
| 0:35.5 | Oh, you're gonna cover your face now. You're a shame. |
| 0:37.6 | In California, Bo Ma showed up to work one morning and found human feces |
| 0:42.7 | smeared on the front door of his business. |
| 0:44.6 | It was the first day of the Lunar New Year. |
| 0:46.8 | Today is supposed to be a day of celebration, but the Lunar New Year began on a |
| 0:50.8 | disturbing note for the Lunar New Year. |
| 0:52.0 | His business, it's a preschool, little sunshine preschool in Alhambra. |
| 0:56.6 | We fell threatened. |
| 0:59.2 | And then we called a police owner Bo Ma tells eyewitness news in San Francisco. |
| 1:04.0 | 84 year old Vichot Ratana Pacti was out for a morning walk. |
| 1:07.9 | When out of nowhere, a man shoved him violently to the ground. |
| 1:11.8 | He died two days later. |
| 1:14.0 | It was not the only attack like that in the region. |
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