People hold signs as they attend a “Stop Asian Hate” rally outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta.
Hong Mei Ma of Owasso holds a protest sign as he listens to a speaker during a Stop Asian Hate rally at the Center of the Universe in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday, March 26, 2021.
FILE – In this file photo dated March 17, 2021, Jesus Estrella (left) and Shelby stand before Young’s Asian massage in Acworth, Ga white man accused of shooting and killing six Asian women and two others at massage companies in the Atlanta area could become the first major test of Georgia’s new hate crime law. (Curtis Compton / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Sabrina Bijeaux holds signs while participating in a Stop Asian Hate rally outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, March 20, 2021. (AP Photo / Ben Gray)
The Tucson Chinese Cultural Center brings Tucson’s Asian community together to share their concerns about hate crimes and their safety.
The center is hosting a roundtable Tuesday evening, and the Tucson Police Department’s Street Crime Interdiction Unit is available to answer questions.
The meeting was organized in response to an increase in anti-Asian hate crimes at the national level since the pandemic began.
The national group Stop AAPI Hate reported nearly 3,800 cases of discrimination between March 19, 2020 and February 28, 2021. Stop AAPI Hate is a reporting center that tracks incidents of hate, violence, harassment, and discrimination against Asian Americans, and is responding to them by Pacific Islanders in the United States.
This month’s shootings at three massage companies in the Atlanta area raised concerns about violence against Asians. Eight people were killed in the March 16 shootings, most of them Asians.
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