he came forward and slashed me
from chick to cheek he didn't say
anything he just
did it and uh nobody
nobody came nobody helped me
when i left the train
i thought i wouldn't make it noel
quintana's case in new york
is just one of almost 4 000 anti-asian
hate incidents
reported in the u.s over the past year
in cities like san francisco a large
asian american population hasn't stopped
the harassment either
i noticed a young gentleman who wasn't
wearing his mask so i walked a little
faster
once he got with an ear shot i asked him
just for the safety of my infants
to please wear a mask at that point he
locked eyes
with me and charged us he decided to
walk straight at us
um i let out a few choice words
and ran into the house screaming for my
husband who came running down the stairs
and scared him away
the young man came back at least three
times to
throw things into our foyer and leave
not only
a race this note but a racist mask
that he wrote on you don't want to
reveal your identity
why is that i can't endanger my young
infants
they've already been before the age of
one subjected to hate crime
i'm not going to give anybody else
another chance
to do that to them again
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i think the outrage that you're seeing
from the asian american community has a
lot to do with
feeling invisible having a lot to do
with our issues not getting attention
and recognition and resources
and it has to do with the model minority
myth
that really was manufactured
to deny structural racism
we had already been seeing a lot of news
that there's people getting beat down
robbed in chinatown and we were just
really really hurt to see that you know
we were really hurt and we just thought
you know we need to start
doing something we need to um go out to
the community
and patrol do you see your role as
defending chinatown from these attacks
uh we see a role as preventing and also
as reporting
as well so we do a lot of observing
recording and reporting those are three
main tasks we don't actually
get into physical fights with anybody
this is our weapon right here
it's hey excuse me this is our weapon
but this community doesn't always report
crimes
and activists fear that the actual
number is far worse
we have members of our community who
don't speak english as their primary
language
or they're undocumented or they might
have this sense of
you know what can what can be done about
it and so
there's a deep distrust and it's
for legitimate reasons
you