Inside NYC’s skyrocketing anti-Asian violence: How hate speech led to hate crimes

Three days after US officials first used the term “China Virus” on a national news broadcast, a barrage of anti-Asian attacks began in New York City.

Within hours, two Asian Americans were separately assaulted — the first of such hate crimes in the city for the year and marking a deeply troubling, sometimes deadly trend that continues today.

“Where is your corona mask, you Asian b—h?” a 23-year-old woman was asked March 10, 2020, before she was slugged in the face.

Hours later, a 59-year-old man was kicked to the ground and told, “F–king Chinese coronavirus, go back to your country.”

Before those attacks, not a

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