NEW YORK — As the NYPD ramps up security in response to the Atlanta shootings, Manhattan Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou says discrimination and crimes against Asian-Americans are common in her district.
“In Lower Manhattan, we’ve been seeing that every single Asian American has probably had some kind of incident happen to them,” she said in a Wednesday evening interview with Inside City Hall anchor Errol Louis. “We’ve seen people who have gotten beaten up for wearing a mask, gotten beaten up for not wearing a mask.”
What can New Yorkers can do to help their Asian-American neighborhoods in this time of extreme pain?@yuhline tells @errollouis, "I would say check in with your Asian-American friends, because just knowing that somebody cares, or that somebody sees you, is so important." pic.twitter.com/zQRSGCPJhO
— Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) March 17, 2021
Niou said in her district there was recently a stabbing and one woman was almost lit on fire.
Over the last year, hate crimes against Asian Americans have surged, including here in the city. And in Atlanta, authorities are investigating a horrific series of shootings in which eight people were killed, most of them people of Asian descent.
Niou says many people are on edge, and has this advice for New Yorkers: “I would say check in with your Asian-American friends, because just knowing that somebody cares, or that somebody sees you, is so important.”
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