With New York having the second-highest number of anti-Asian hate incidents in America, civic leaders, elected officials and victims of such crimes gathered in Lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon demanding action.
The Asian American Foundation held an emergency press conference outside 1 Centre St. on Aug. 19 seeking greater focus and resources from government and police on biased verbal and physical assaults faced by the AAPI community. Speakers drove home newly released statistics in the report from Stop AAPI Hate which show New York to be the state with the second-highest number of hate incident reports involving Asians.
