Attack Against Asians
Authorities have captured a 21-year-elderly person, Robert Aaron Long, in association with every one of the three shootings. No rationale has been set up except for it’s accepted that the shooter intentionally focused on individuals of Asian plunge.
As indicated by the New York Times, the presume told police that he had a “sexual compulsion” and had done the killings to take out his “enticement”. He likewise said that he had frequented rub parlors before and proceeded with the shootings as a type of retaliation.
“Whatever the inspiration was for this person, we realize that most of the casualties were Asian. We likewise realize that this is an issue that is occurring the nation over. It is unsuitable, it is scornful and it needs to stop,” said the city hall leader of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
K-pop Artists supporting the Campaign
Since the start of the Covid pandemic, disdain violations against Asian-Americans have expanded drastically. As indicated by the backing group Stop AAPI Hate, there have been up to 3,800 occurrences announced since last March. In New York City alone, there was a 867 percent expansion in Asian scorn wrongdoing casualties in 2020.
“The revealed shootings of Asian American ladies on Tuesday in Atlanta is an unspeakable misfortune – for the groups of the casualties above all else, yet additionally for the AAPI people group – which has been faltering from undeniable degrees of racial segregation,” the association composed on Twitter.
Numerous K-pop Artists including CL, Tablo, Eric Nam, Alexa, P1Harmony reached support the mission “Stop Asian Hate”.
We stand together. #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/do92V9rd0K
— CL (@chaelinCL) March 17, 2021
Please. pic.twitter.com/STDfxOdMhd
— tablo (@blobyblo) March 17, 2021
my heart #stopasianhate
— Eric Nam (에릭남) (@ericnamofficial) March 17, 2021
Spread awareness, please.
📎https://t.co/Ba5ns2Q4Ez
📎https://t.co/KaAu3OOJZH#StopAsianHate— AleXa 알렉사 (@AleXa_ZB) March 17, 2021
Please #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/0H4XA3KlEG
— P1Harmony (@P1H_members) March 17, 2021
#StopAsianHate very simple
— JAY BUM PARK (@JAYBUMAOM) March 18, 2021
#StopAsianHate my god pic.twitter.com/MvDmTAgO77
— Fatou (@b_fatou_s) March 17, 2021
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