The incident occurred immediately after the tragedy of the 21-year-old American Robert Aaron Long who shot and killed 8 people in 3 spa salons in Georgia (Atlanta). The Asian-American community’s concerns about the stigma attack have not ceased On March 17, two more Asian-Americans were attacked in the streets of San Francisco, California.
According to the CBS station in San Francisco, police said the incident took place in area 7 and Markets Street around 10 a.m. The two victims are elderly people, namely an 83-year-old Vietnamese grandfather, Ngoc Pham, and a 75-year-old Chinese woman named Xiao Zhen Xie. Fortunately, neither of them suffered serious injuries that could affect their lives.
After leaving a farmers market, Mr. Ngoc Pham was suddenly attacked by a stranger. He was hospitalized with a broken nose, cuts and bruises on his face. He also injured his neck, which is currently under medical supervision.
And Ms. Xie was waiting at the intersection when this person punched her in the face and instinctively, she responded. “Very painful, very scared. This eye is still bleeding,” he told KPIX 5 television station with the help of his daughter’s translation.
And the highlight of the tensions over violence against Asians in the US is the story of Ngoc Pham and Ms. Xiao Zhen Xie shared by social media users and asking for donations on the GoFundMe platform to help her grandparents. Pay hospital fees, ease the pain. of being attacked for no reason.
On the social network Twitter, Cristina account commented: “This story makes me feel so painful. I have made a contribution to help you. I hope the old man is healthy soon ”. Meanwhile, David Lee said: “Violence is the most terrible thing right now. Asians do not deserve such stigma, we hope that everyone shares and fights for a community without violence and discrimination because this is scarier than Covid-19 ”.
According to the sheet The Guardian, The San Francisco Community Youth Center created a fundraising site on GoFundMe to help pay hospital bills. So far, donors have contributed more than $ 137,600 to her.
Meanwhile, the fundraising site for Ms. Xie on GoFundMe, founded by her nephew, has raised more than $ 649,000 and is the most visited fundraising site on the platform in the past 24 hours. A spokesperson for the platform said that more than 22,500 people in 50 US states and 55 countries contributed thousands of messages of sympathy: “No mother has to experience this hatred,” “I cry every time I think of her. I wish a quick and strong recovery “…
Follow, continue The Washington PostThe suspect, identified in the previous case, is a man named Steven Jenkins (39 years old), who has been arrested and investigated for assault and abuse of the elderly. According to the police, these two old Asians are said to have been assaulted for no reason. Investigators are trying to determine whether racism was the cause of the crime.
The incident took place in the context of growing stigma among the Asian community. The attacks have sparked fears as they have become targets of violence since the Covid-19 epidemic began to erupt in the United States last year. According to data from the Stop AAPI Hate organization (USA), from March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021 (before the Atlanta shooting), 3,795 cases of Asian discrimination were recorded in the USA, including bullying. Slander, defamation, insults. , insults and assaults.
