Max Leung, the founder of SF Peace Collective, started a community-based safety patrol group around San Francisco’s Chinatown at the beginning of the pandemic as the neighborhood lost its usual foot traffic.
Photographer: Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle
Asian-American Groups Grapple With Police Response to Violence
In a year of criminal justice reform, attacks on Asian Americans in Atlanta and elsewhere are raising questions about the right way to protect a community against racism.
The shooting spree Tuesday that left eight people dead including six Asian women in the Atlanta area punctuates a year of crimes against Asian Americans in the U.S. It follows a recent string of attacks on older Asian Americans, including high-profile cases in the Bay Area that were caught on security cameras.
Many Asian-American advocates say their warnings that anti-Asian sentiments would manifest in continued violence have gone unheeded and that mounting fears and anxieties have been ignored or downplayed.