U.S. and Chinese language officers met in Alaska for his or her first in-person talks beneath the Biden administration final week, and issues
U.S. and Chinese language officers met in Alaska for his or her first in-person talks beneath the Biden administration final week, and issues … acquired fairly testy.
Robert Aaron Lengthy, a 21-year-old white man, is accused of killing 4 individuals inside two Atlanta spas and 4 others at a therapeutic massage enterprise in suburban Cherokee County. Investigators say they’re nonetheless working to determine a motive within the shootings. The suspect has claimed to have a intercourse dependancy, in keeping with authorities.
Hundreds marched Saturday in cities coast-to-coast in protest on the rise of anti-Asian crimes and sentiment, together with in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. Georgia Sens. Warnock and Jon Ossoff marched in Atlanta alongside state Rep. Bee Nguyen, the primary Vietnamese American to serve within the Georgia Home.
“Irrespective of the way you need to spin it, the information stay the identical. This was an assault on the Asian neighborhood,” Nguyen mentioned Saturday.
President Joe Biden on Friday condemned anti-Asian violence however didn’t go as far as to label the Atlanta-area assaults a hate crime.
“Regardless of the motivation, we all know this,” Biden mentioned. “Too many Asian Individuals have been strolling up and down the streets and worrying, waking up every morning the previous 12 months feeling their security and the security of their family members are at stake. They have been attacked, blamed, scapegoated, harassed. They have been verbally assaulted, bodily assaulted, killed.”
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday urged Individuals to talk out in opposition to discrimination “wherever and every time it happens.”
Biden additionally reiterated his name for Congress to “swiftly cross” the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act, launched by members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, a name backed by Chu on Sunday, who mentioned she has been “working for a 12 months to attempt to get some motion accomplished,” together with on one other invoice addressing the reporting of hate crimes. Warnock, in flip, known as for “affordable” motion on gun management.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson condemned a few of his fellow Republicans’ rhetoric over the shootings and anti-China sentiment amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“It doesn’t assist,” he mentioned. “It doesn’t give us a way of understanding of individuals, any time you lump them collectively as an enemy of our nation. Phrases do matter.”