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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Rise of Asian American Violence, UNMH Stroke Center & Media Diversity | 4.2.21
Description: On New Mexico in Focus…
The Asian American community held a rally in downtown Albuquerque this week in response to an increase in violent and harassing incidents across the state. That surge mirrors what is happening all over the country in the wake of charged and divisive language about the COVID-19 virus. It was just about two weeks ago that eight people were killed, six of them females of Asian descent, in a mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia. Police officials were reticent from the start to call the shootings a hate crime. Host Gene Grant talks with members of t...