Hundreds of people in six cities across the U.S. demand justice for 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee, who was killed while out for a walk a year ago.
‘It’s about not being silent, whether you’re a witness or a victim,’ actor Daniel Dae Kim told CNN’s Chris Cuomo of violence toward Asians and Asian Americans.older Asian people being robbed and knocked down
High-profile victims nationally include Michelle Go, 40, who died after a mentally unstable man shoved her in front of a subway in New York earlier this month. In March, a gunman shot and killed eight people at three Atlanta-area spas, including six women of Asian descent. There’s disagreement among officials whether those attacks were racially motivated, but the deaths have rattled Asian Americans, who see bias.
Vicha Ratanapakdee had encouraged his eldest daughter to move to the U.S. more than two decades ago to pursue a master’s degree in business at UC Berkeley. He and his wife were living with their daughter, her husband and the couple’s two sons, now 9 and 12.The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations on Wednesday released a special report on anti-Asian hate crime in LA County in 2020.
“My mom told me that day was the best day for my father. He was happy to go out,” said Monthanus Ratanapakdee. “But it was a bad day for us, because he never came back again.”
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