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US Watchdog Tracks Over 2,100 Anti-Asian Incidents

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - Since mid-March, a U.S.-based coalition has tracked more
   than 2,100 anti-Asian hate incidents, a troubling figure that Asian
   American advocates say is being fueled in part by political rhetoric
   against China during the coronavirus pandemic.

   While racial slurs and other forms of verbal harassment constituted the
   vast majority of the incidents, nearly eight percent involved physical
   assaults, businesses barring Asian Americans from entering their
   establishments due to misplaced coronavirus fears, and attackers
   coughing and spitting on victims, according to STOP AAPI Hate, an
   anti-Asian hate tracker.
   In one incident in March, a group of African American teenagers on a
   commuter rail in San Francisco used their backpacks to attack a
   mask-wearing Asian American, saying he had COVID-19, the disease caused
   by the coronavirus.

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