Several hundred people demonstrated in New York on Saturday against violence targeting Asians, ten days after the murder of six women of Asian origin in Atlanta, in the southeast of the United States.
Similar protests are also taking place in some 60 other American cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.
"The pandemic has lasted for a year and violence against Asians has only increased,"
Judi Chang, who is part of ANSWER, the collective which called for demonstrations, told AFP.
“All Asians I know have been harassed, assaulted,”
she explained.
“They spit on us, they yell at us.
We are observed, people leave when we get somewhere
, ”she continues.
On March 16, a white man killed eight people in Atlanta, including six women of Asian descent.
Arrested after opening fire in three Asian massage parlors, Robert Aaron Long admitted the facts and was charged with murder.
During his interrogation, he denied any racist motive, presenting himself as a "sex addict" eager to suppress "a temptation".