PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2022
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STATEMENT ON VIOLENT ATTACK ON ASIAN WOMAN IN YONKERS.
White Plains, NY -- Racist violence is an intolerable affront to our values as Americans and to our shared humanity.
While we abhor all violence, we know, as Attorney General Merrick Garland said recently, that hate crimes have a particularly corrosive effect because they not only inflict pain and suffering on individuals and their families but also terror and fear on entire communities.
The increase of violence against Asians in our communities is troubling. According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, anti-Asian hate crime increased nearly 340 percent in 2021 compared to 2020.
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