![]() There were 17 anti-Asian hate crimes in California in March 2020, compared with three the previous March. In spring 2020, as stay-at-home orders prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic kicked in, anti-Asian hate crimes spiked, the report said. Most happened at a residence or on a roadway. One in three of the anti-Asian hate crimes occurred in Los Angeles County. There were 89 hate crimes reported against Asian Americans in California last year, compared with 43 in 2019, the report said. ![]() “Until you have data, until you have images that come from body cameras to show America what has been happening, situations cannot change,” he said. Jones-Sawyer, who is Black, said the report’s finding that hate crimes against Black people rose to 456 last year from 243 the previous year was “a validation of what African Americans have been saying for centuries.” That tally includes crimes motivated by bias against religion, sexual orientation and gender, in addition to race.Īnti-white hate crimes more than doubled, from 39 in 2019 to 82 in 2020, the report found.Īnti-Jewish hate crimes fell by 18%, and anti-Muslim hate crimes also decreased last year.ĭata are a powerful tool that can unearth root causes and “help cure the illness resulting from hate,” said Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), chair of the Assembly’s public safety committee. ![]() The total number of hate crimes in the state last year, 1,330, was the highest in more than a decade. Hate speech is largely protected by the 1st Amendment, becoming a hate crime only if there is a threat to a person or property. It did not monitor racist attacks that were purely verbal. The state Department of Justice report tracked hate crimes - criminal acts motivated at least in part by characteristics such as race, gender or religion - reported to law enforcement agencies in California. It was about an epidemic of hate,” said Rob Bonta, the state’s first Filipino American attorney general, at a news conference in Oakland’s Chinatown on Wednesday. ![]() “For too many, 2020 wasn’t just about a deadly virus. From brutal assaults on Asian senior citizens in Oakland and San Francisco Chinatowns to the deadly shootings of six Asian women at Atlanta-area spas, violence against Asians has assumed an unwelcome spotlight during the pandemic, even though the assailants’ motives are sometimes unclear. ![]()
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