The violence rattling Asian Americans
Asian American communities are bracing themselves against an increase of violent assaults, leaving the marginalized group feeling under attack and isolated.
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Attacks against Asian Americans are surging. While data is scant, the numbers in New York City and San Francisco \u2014 cities with large, long established Asian American communities \u2014 are up.
Racially motivated attacks are chronically underreported, reporter Marian Liu says. \u201cOn top of that, there's a high threshold to proving what a hate crime is.\u201d
Liu spoke with Post Reports senior producer Reena Flores about the recent string of viral videos showing violence against elderly Asian Americans and how those attacks have left people in the minority group fearful. \u201cThe community has been left feeling very isolated.\u201d Liu says. \u201cThey had to report this on their own, create their own database. And many have taken to patrolling their own streets \u2014like people are patrolling Chinatown on their own.\u201d
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