#Undercover NYPD to be redeployed for anti-Asian hate crimes

#Undercover NYPD to be redeployed for anti-Asian hate crimes

“#Undercover NYPD to be redeployed for anti-Asian hate crimes” Undercover NYPD cops will be redeployed to help handle the recent surge of anti-Asian hate crimes across the city, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday.  The top cop acknowledged during a NY1 appearance that anti-Asian attacks have “certainly ratcheted up since last year.” He said that…

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#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’

#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’

“#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’” The bodies of the victims hadn’t gone cold, the families had barely begun grieving, when the familiar cottage industry of activists and journalists jumped in to speculate and spread misinformation on social media. What drove someone to slaughter eight people in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta…

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#’I’m proud to be Asian’

#’I’m proud to be Asian’

“#’I’m proud to be Asian’” Sandra Oh delivered a passionate speech this weekend in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings, in which a gunman went on a rampage across area massage parlors staffed primarily by Asian women, leaving eight people dead.  “I am proud to be Asian,” the award-winning Canadian-American actress, 49, declared during…

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#Manhattan subway attack was anti-Asian crime: eyewitness

#Manhattan subway attack was anti-Asian crime: eyewitness

“#Manhattan subway attack was anti-Asian crime: eyewitness” A Sri Lankan immigrant attacked on a Manhattan train Friday afternoon was the victim of an anti-Asian attack, an eyewitness told WNBC-TV. Straphanger George Okrepkie was sitting across from victim Narayange Bodhi on Friday afternoon when the alleged assailant approached Bodhi, 68, and said “You Asian [mother-f—-r]” and…

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#NYC sex-workers advocates respond to Atlanta spa murders

#NYC sex-workers advocates respond to Atlanta spa murders

“#NYC sex-workers advocates respond to Atlanta spa murders” Advocates for Queens sex workers condemned the killings of eight people, including six massage workers, in Georgia and insisted the victims “faced specific racialized gendered violence for being Asian women and massage workers.” Red Canary Song — an organization founded following the death of Flushing masseuse Yang…

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#Biden meets with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta

#Biden meets with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta

“#Biden meets with Asian-American leaders in Atlanta” President Biden called his meeting with local Asian-American leaders in Atlanta on Friday “heart-wrenching,’’ saying racism is “the ugly poison that has long haunted and plagued our nation.” Biden and Veep Kamala Harris — the country’s first Asian-American vice president — had met with the leaders to offer…

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