IRMS Statement on the 3/16/21 Atlanta-Area Shootings
On March 16th, a 21-year-old white man shot and killed eight people, six of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. This racist and misogynist attack marks the most recent in a disturbing trend of violence targeting Asians and Asian Americans in the United States over the past year. Just hours before the shootings began, Stop AAPI Hate released a report documenting nearly four thousand hate incidents against Asian Americans since March 19th, 2020—a…