This is horrific. It should be noted that these “isolated, unrelated” brutal attacks on Asians began early in the pandemic—directly due to right-wing anti-Asian hate rhetoric.
We stopped talking about it as people got distracted by the elections; the actual attacks never paused.
36-year-old Asian male stabbed in the back in NYC Chinatown in an unprovoked attack on the street. No robbery, no words exchanged.