Refused help and further support

The incident happened outside of the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, MD. The music center is located in an affluent community and is also home to the youth orchestras, which comprise of more than 50% Asian youth musicians with an age range of 8-18 years.

It was a Wednesday evening around 7:30pm. When another parent and I were walking outside the music center, a bike approached us and a mid-aged man started charging at us with foul words. He humiliated us and accused us of being people who do not understand English and who carry the viruses. Then he got down from his bike and walked towards us and threatened to hit us. He did not touch us, but he continued to walk towards us and screamed racial slurs towards us. We then ran back towards the music center and he chased us for about 20 feet until we reached the entrance and called for help. A security guard and a staff came out and the guy fled.

We later reported the incident to the police located at the other side of the building and requested more patrols in the area and further investigation. The requests were dismissed. The police said this is outside of his duty and he refused to send patrols or investigate further into what happened. He also refused to write up a report.

"It's happening every day to those kids."

I heard from one of the workers at an Action Day Primary Plus preschool in California about a case of a teacher who spoke out loud that she doesn't like Asian kids and violently yelled many times targeting Asian kids in her classroom. Most of the kids there cannot talk yet, so the parents did not know. However, the principal and most of teachers in the classrooms next door can hear clearly her anger with Asian kids. Due to the COVID-19 situation and lack of staff, the principal and management from that Action Day Primary Plus location didn't take further action to prevent their staff and educate them about hate crime or giving advice, strict warnings, or punishment. It's happening every day to those kids.

"I want justice."

While pumping gas at the Shell Station in Fortuna, CA I was assaulted by a male. I recovered quickly and began to defend myself and the situation was de-escalated by an off-duty sheriff as he calmed me down. I began explaining that I was attacked by this man for no reason, but he said he couldn't do anything other than stop the fight. He handed me his card and told me to call the cops and make a report, all the while not bothering to question my attacker and ultimately letting him drive away. I am a Filipino American public safety worker and this happened while on duty and was captured on my truck’s camera. I want justice.

"I’m sure people in their houses could hear... Everyone outside was doing absolutely nothing."

I'm a young Chinese trans woman. I was just walking in my neighborhood when a middle-aged man on a porch started screaming at me. “Hey ching-chong. You’re not fooling anyone.” “I’m going to come out and beat you. I can do that.“ “You’re not fooling anyone.” “I’m going to come out and beat you. I can do that.” I started walking away thinking if I should record him or just walk by acting like I didn’t notice. I didn't want to escalate.

“I can smell you from here, your smell stinking up everything. You smell like sh+t tr+nny” “F+cking f+ggot, no one is fooled f+cking f+ggot.” “You’re a man, you’re a boy.” “I’ll f+cking kill you, you’re disgusting.” “I’m going find you and murder you.” “I’m going to kill you, I’m going to come out there and kill you, I’m serious, that’s something I can do.” “You in school? I’ll find your school, I’ll find you there, I’ll f+cking do it right there in your dorm.” “I can tell you’re afraid.” “I can tell you can f+cking hear me. F+cking f+ggot tr+nny I’ll find you soon.”

He kept constantly repeating that he was going to find me and murder me. I could see it in his eyes. Such clear intention. If there weren’t people eating dinner in the yard he would have done something. When I started moving away, he started screaming so loud and long that I could hear him from three blocks away. I’ve really never seen someone so angry and loud in my life. I’m sure people in their houses could hear him. Everyone outside was doing absolutely nothing.

Elderly Korean man targeted by hate

Elderly Korean man was driving in his van near the corner of E. Washington and S. Central Ave in Los Angeles. A woman approached the van and started beating on the windows, yelling at him to go back to Asia and other negative comments about Asians. She yanked the windshield wiper of the car until it broke and damaged the car. The elder waited until she moved back to drive away and avoid further damage to the car. He was not sure how to deal with the situation with his limited English speaking skills.

Heartbroken and angered

My 15 year-old daughter was harassed and bullied by her three classmates who were supposedly her friends. They started off snapchatting her racist comments which led her to call them. She recorded their phone conversation and made it go viral. On that phone conversation they called her ugly, a coronavirus bitch, that she should go back to wherever she came from etc. We’ve called the cops and notify the school district. They incident also made it to the local news. The boys texted her back begging her to take down her post because they will lose their sports privilege and that it will ruin their lives. I’m so heartbroken for her and angered that she has to even deal with this.

"Traumatizing, denigrating, dehumanizing and degrading."

About 7:30pm on Tuesday evening I was exiting the 7 train subway station in Long Island City when a female behind me came up the subway steps shoving me and telling me to, “Go back to China.” When I turned the corner I asked her, “Did you tell me to go back to China?” She then said, “You should be raped.” She then went into her apartment, but I stood in the pouring rain and began video recording in my phone. I shouted up to her window that I lived on the same block and asked if she, in fact, told me to go to China and get raped. She told me she was calling the police on me and that they would believe her and not me.

I called my husband to come and help then I called the 108th precinct to file a hate Incident, left a message. The female came out of her apartment about 5 times threatening me, two times she left her apartment to run down the block in the rain telling me the police were coming to get me pointing at an active police car who was not coming for me. She came back to her apartment went inside, came back out with a pitbull to try to threaten me and my husband who had just arrived. After 5 minutes, I walked to the police station and filed a incident report.

This person lives in my community on the same block and I made this report to prevent her from doing this to others. I’m a 43 year-old, female, Korean American citizen. This experience was traumatizing, denigrating, dehumanizing and degrading.

A targeted push

(My daughter is writing this for me): I was waiting to cross the street. A young man (maybe early 20s) walked to pass in front and very close to me and then disappeared. Then I didn't know but a couple minutes later, he went behind me. He pushed me (on my left shoulder). Not hard enough to make me fall. He then ran across the street and looked back at me. He did not say anything. A young woman was near me and saw it happen and came over and she shook her head and said sorry and checked on me. I said thank you. She stayed a minute and the light turned green and we cross the street.

Feeling unsafe in my home state for 24 years

I was riding in the car with my Father driving when suddenly a white Mercedes accelerated at full throttle through the oncoming lane to brake-check us to a complete stop. Upon reaching a complete stop the attacker got out of their vehicle and began yelling racial slurs while threatening to beat us up. After a slight back and forth, the attacker was about to come forth before I stood up, made my size apparent, and stated that I was a powerlifter. In response, they got back in their car and floored it before even putting their seatbelt on.

Despite knowing that I had a very high chance of winning a physical altercation due to my history, I now no longer feel safe anywhere I go. I can no longer comfortably drive with my windows down or go anywhere without a clear escape/fight plan. I have also lost many of my "friends" that ended up blaming me for the incident and vilifying me for my response. After living in my state for 24 years, I have gone against my best wishes and have decided to move to another country.

"China doll!"

I was walking in Fort Greene Park, on my way home around 3pm. As I passed by the men's restroom, an old man (in his 60s?) was about to get on his bicycle. He made eye contact with me and said "China doll!" and then after I walked passed him, he said "China doll. Sucky, sucky. F*cky, f*cky." I did not turn around.

"Your country lost the war."

I was making returns at a local outdoor shopping mall with my teenager. She typically waits for me outside the store in an area that has frequent foot traffic. While I was in the store a woman approached her, noting my teen's presence. The woman proceeded to state, "Your country lost the war; you are not culturally superior.” I had been in the store for 10-15 minutes when my teen came into the store, looking stricken and shocked.

My teen noted that the woman was walking a dog, carrying a loud clicking device and was followed by a man with a clipboard. Because of the strange scenario around this biased individual, my teen quickly left without exchanging any comments.

What is ironic is that my teen was considered to be Japanese (hence the reference to losing "the war") yet her great grandfather fought against the Japanese on behalf of the US military. My teen was not wearing any flags, slogans or images that would suggest that she is Japanese. We aren't Japanese. Many of our family members have served in the US military and/or continue to serve. This incident happened Memorial Day weekend, 2021.

"We all just kept on walking."

A lady in the subway station was walking toward me with her mask down, made eye contact, said, "F*cking Asian." She then shouldered me. While not so strong that I fell, it was forceful enough to twist my torso around and make me do a half step to stay upright. I yelled back, "What the f*ck?" Two other people saw the incident but we all just kept on walking. It was a quick interaction since I was mostly concerned with catching the train and no major physical contact or issues occurred. Thank you for this space to report an incident that would otherwise go undocumented.

Two incidents, just minutes apart

This was two separate incidents that happened minutes apart. First, I was crossing the street correctly (I had the Walk sign). A motorcyclist tried to hit me. He specifically ran his red light to try and hit me. Then he slowed down slightly to glare at me. There was no apology or remorse from him like there would be if someone did all that by accident. So clearly, he did it all intentionally this way.

The second incident was a couple minutes later. I was standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus. One of the cars passing by me, a guy in the car yelled “Ch*nk!!” at me.

"Go back to China!"

I was waiting in front of a Batteries+ store for my husband to pick me after I dropped off my vehicle next door to be serviced. A man who was talking to himself walked in my direction. As he was walking towards me, he threw a canned drink to the ground, but it wasn't thrown in my direction. I moved away from him, making no eye contact whatsoever. As I stood waiting for my husband, the man started yelling, "F*cking communist! Go back to China!" He yelled this several times. I ignored him and he eventually left.

Workplace racism

A department manager was glancing at my new band-aids on my right index finger. I said my cat attacked me. The following question he asked was, "Did you cook your cat into soup...?” He said other things that I did not hear because I was caught with the phrase, “Did you cook your cat into soup?” Manager said he did not know I had cat as an excuse after I told him don't make racist jokes regarding animals like cats. I documented this when I transferred, but he claimed he forgot. I told HR but little has been done except "depends on the context" as usual.