洛杉矶县当局表示，他们正在调查一家 “停止亚洲仇恨” 周末集会为潜在的仇恨犯罪.
As demonstrators marched through a crosswalk in the city of Diamond Bar on Sunday to protest racism and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, a male suspect drove through a red light at the intersection yelling racist profanities at them, 根据一个 新闻发布 来自洛杉矶县警长的部门. No one was reported injured.
The sheriff’s office described the suspect as a White man in his 50s and said his license plate was captured on video.
“Based on what we have learned, this is being investigated as a hate crime,” 洛杉矶. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a 声明.
In a video of the incident taken by a witness and shared with CNN, a black vehicle is seen making a U-turn through the group of protesters in the crosswalk while the driver yells, “F**k China” and N***er. Another video taken by that witness shows the man yelling similar profanities while his vehicle was pulled over by a sidewalk.
The sheriff’s department said it didn’t have any further information on the investigation to share at this time.
Demonstrators in cities across the country gathered over the weekend to protest hate and violence against Asian Americans and grieve for those killed at three spas 在格鲁吉亚 上个星期.
Community leaders say the Georgia shootings have exacerbated the fears of many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, as crime and racist rhetoric against them have surged during the coronavirus pandemic.
Anti-Asian hate crimes more than doubled last year 在 16 of the nation’s largest cities, according to an analysis of preliminary data by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
与此同时, advocacy groups such as Stop AAPI Hate and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC have cataloged thousands of incidents of hate and discrimination against the AAPI community.
