El Tecolote Vol. 51 Issue 6

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PUBLISHED BY ACCIÓN LATINA

Vol. 51 No. 06

March 25-April 7, 2021

ASIAN, ASIAN-AMERICANS REFLECT AFTER SIX WOMEN MURDERED IN GEORGIA ASIÁTICOS AMERICANOS REFLEXIONAN TRAS ASESINATO DE SEIS MUJERES EN GEORGIA Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services

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sian Americans across the U.S. reflected on their community’s vulnerability to racist attacks, after 21 year-old Robert Aaron Long killed six Asian American women at three locations in Georgia on March 16. Long, who told police the shootings were not racially motivated, has been charged with eight counts of murder. Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said it was too soon in the investigation to classify the shootings as a hate crime. Social media posts show Long deeply involved with his church: police said he allegedly has an addiction to sex and was attempting to “eliminate temptation.” The suspect confessed to the murders and told police he was on his way to Florida. Using a gun he had purchased just a day earlier, Long first attacked Young’s Asian Massage Parlor in Acworth, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, at about 5 p.m. Three Asian American women and one man were killed in that incident: Delaina Ashley Yuan; Paul Andre Michels; Xiaojie Yan, 49; and Daoyou Feng, 44. He then drove to the Gold Spa in Atlanta, and killed three Asian American women there, then crossed the street to the Aromatherapy Spa, Durante una marcha en el Portsmouth Square de Chinatown en San Francisco en apoyo a la comunidad AAPI, un asistente escribe los nombres de las víctiwhere another woman’s body was mas del más reciente tiroteo en Atlanta, Georgia el 20 de marzo de 2021. During a rally in San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square on March 20, 2021, found. Long was arrested two hours an attendee writes the names of the victims of the recent shooting in Atlanta, Georgia during an event in support of the AAPI community. Photo: Sean Reyes later. Atlanta police have not released the names of the victims. Asian American leaders said the Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services murders were targeted attacks which occurred during a dramatic spike in os estadounidenses de orithe past year of anti-Asian hate vigen asiático han reflexionado olence and intimidation. Stop AAPI sobre lo vulnerable de su coHate, a web portal allowing victims to report hate incidents or violence in munidad ante los ataques racistas, several Asian languages, has collect- después de que Robert Aaron Long, ed more than 3,800 reports in the past de 21 años, asesinara a seis mujeres year. Community activists believe estadounidenses de origen asiático the spike in hate violence is the result en tres localidades de Georgia el 16 of President Donald Trump’s vilifica- de marzo. En su declaración ante la policía tion of Asian Americans: the former President called the COVID-19 virus Long dijo que en sus disparos no the “Chinese virus,” “the Kung Flu,” hubo motivación racial, pero ha sido and the “Wuhan virus,” among other acusado de ocho cargos de asesinato. Por su parte, el jefe de la policía names. Elderly Asians and women have de Atlanta, Rodney Bryant, dijo que been targets for the majority of at- sería muy anticipado clasificar el titacks. A poll soon to be released by roteo como un crimen de odio. Sus publicaciones en redes sothe National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum found that 55 ciales muestran a Long muy involupercent — more than half of AAPI crado con su iglesia, mientras que la women — reported being affected by policía dijo que presuntamente tiene anti-Asian racism at least once in the una adicción al sexo y que intentaba “eliminar la tentación”. El sospechopast 2 years. “We never expected this now: we so confesó los asesinatos y afirmó a thought it was over after Trump lost. la policía que se dirigía a Florida. Con un arma que había compraBut hate crime never seems to go away,” Atlanta-based Korean Ameri- do apenas un día antes, Long atacó can activist Jongwon Lee told Ethnic primero en Young’s Asian Massage Media Services March 17, amid a Parlor de Acworth, situado a unos 50 kilómetros al norte de Atlanta. Hacia Un asistente a la marcha sostiene un letrero en apoyo a la comunidad AAPI, como una muestra de solidaridad tras day of mourning. Lee said the local community’s las diecisiete horas dejó 4 víctimas el tiroteo en Atlanta, Georgia. A rally attendee holds a sign during a rally in support of the AAPI community following first priority was to identify the vic- de entre 44 y 49 años: Delaina As- the shooting in Atlanta, Georgia on March 20, 2021. Photo: Sean Reyes

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