Canada A national report, funded by the
Government of Canada and conducted as a collaboration with the
Chinese Canadian National CouncilToronto Chapter, Project 107,
Vancouver Asian Film Festival and the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice, revealed there were 600 documented anti-Asian incidents reported in the country since the start of the pandemic. It revealed that
East Asians suffered the most attacks at 83%, followed by
Southeast Asians at 7%,
South Asians at 2%, mixed-race or biracial Canadians at 1.5% and
Indigenous Canadians at 1%. He was fired after the tweet was reported. On 29 January 2020,
Theresa Tam,
Chief Public Health Officer of Canada and head of the
Public Health Agency of Canada, expressed her concern. Tam, who is originally from Hong Kong, tweeted that "I am concerned about the growing number of reports of racism and stigmatizing comments on social media directed to people of Chinese and Asian descent related to 2019-nCoV coronavirus."
The Nation reported on 7February 2020 that some people of Hong Kong and other Asian diaspora in Canada had been spreading xenophobic stories and rhetoric online against mainland Chinese people. Several incidents of violent assaults against women of Asian descent have been reported. According to an
Angus Reid Institute/
University of Alberta survey on 22 June 2020, 64% of
Chinese-Canadian respondents reported some level of disrespect during COVID-19, 50% of them had experienced verbal abuse, and 29% had experienced physical attacks. 64% of respondents also felt coverage from North American news outlets had led to negative views of ethnically Chinese people in Canada. In Vancouver, anti-Asian hate crimes grew 717% between 2019 and 2020.
Alberta In
Calgary a man was arrested for spitting on an Asian woman on a
longboard at a park and calling her a "stupid
chink". The man also spit on a white couple behind the Asian woman. Also in Calgary, a man was charged with hate crimes for verbally attacking a Chinese-Canadian man with racial slurs. On 23 December 2021,
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney likened the origins of COVID-19 to a "bat soup thing out of Wuhan". Following subsequent criticism for his remarks, Kenney supposedly apologized, allegedly stating "...if anybody did take offence, that I apologize to them, if they took offence, certainly none was intended".
British Columbia Chinese-Canadian businesses in Vancouver have reported a drop in business from fifty to seventy percent. On 13 March 2020, a white man in his 50s yelled racist remarks about COVID-19 towards a 92-year-old Asian man with dementia at a convenience store in Vancouver. The suspect also assaulted the elderly man, which caused the victim to fall and hit his head on the ground.
Vancouver's Chinese Cultural Centre was a target of vandalism, particularly graffiti calling for the death of Chinese people. On 1 November 2020, a man was filmed threatening a Filipino man on a bus in Vancouver. The man referred to the Filipino man as a "Chinese spy" and threatened to sexually assault his daughter. According to the
Vancouver Police Department the number of anti-Asian hate crimes reported in the months March and April 2020 exceeded the total in 2019. A survey of 1,600 adults conducted by ResearchCo and obtained by the
Agence France-Presse revealed one in four Canadians of Asian descent (70% of whom were of Chinese descent) who lived in British Columbia knew someone within their household who had faced discrimination. The survey also revealed 24 percent of Canadians of South Asian descent reported racist insults.
Ontario In the
Greater Toronto Area, Chinese restaurants have reported a drop in sales of thirty to eighty percent. On 28 January 2020, nine thousand parents of a school district in the
York Region, just north of
Toronto signed a
petition calling on the
York Region District School Board to keep students whose family have visited China home from school for seventeen days, and that schools keep track of these students' travels and inform other parents so they could decide whether to pull their kids out of class. The York Region School Board rejected the petition, saying it could potentially stoke racism. In April 2020, Dipanjan Basu, a
University of Waterloo engineering professor posted anti-Chinese messages on his personal Facebook account, for which he later apologized. In
Markham, Ontario, police arrested an individual and charged an individual implicated in six assaults against Asian women. In another incident in
Scarborough, a man was assaulted while ordering food. Anti-Asian statements were uttered by the attacker. Police investigated this as a hate-motivated assault.
Quebec In Montreal, vandals targeted Vietnamese Buddhist temples by smashing statues and religious artifacts. On 17 March 2020, two Korean men were stabbed in
Montreal, prompting the Korean Consulate to issue a warning to those of Korean heritage in the city to be cautious and report any incidents to the consulate. In April 2020, there have been reports of
Inuit being harassed and mistaken as Asians in Montreal. They were spat on and told to "go back to China" or "home country". The
SVPM noted a spike in the number of hate crimes and incidents against the Asian community in Montreal in 2020.
Hutterites In late-June 2020, a large number of cases involving
Hutteritesa communal, self-sufficient
ethnoreligious group with a large population in
Alberta,
Saskatchewan, and
Manitoba, began to emerge. While many colonies cooperated with provincial health officials to control these outbreaks, some displayed resistancewhich led to the group as a whole becoming stigmatized by the general population and facing discrimination. After facing the threat of a human rights complaint by a community member, Manitoba announced that it would no longer link COVID-19 cases to Hutterite colonies unless there is risk to the general public.
United States According to a June 2020
Pew Research study 58% of Asian Americans and 45% of African Americans believe that racist views toward them had increased since the pandemic began. A study by the
New York University College of Arts & Science found that there was no overall increase of Anti-Asian sentiment among the American population, instead it suggested that "already prejudiced persons" had felt authorized by the pandemic to act openly on their prejudices. Early calls for blaming China for the pandemic outbreak included derogatory use of the phrases "Chinese flu", "Kung flu" (in reference to
Chinese martial arts), or "Wuhan flu", phrases embraced and widely used by then-President
Donald Trump and his supporters. There were several thousand incidences of xenophobia and racism against Asian Americans between 28 January and 24 February 2020, according to a tally compiled by
Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American Studies at
San Francisco State University. this later increased to 1,497 reports by 15 April 2020, and most targets were of Chinese (40%) and Korean (16%) descent. By 28 February 2021, it had risen to 3,795. According to a report by Philadelphia radio station
WHYY-FM (21 April 2020), incidents of anti-Asian racism in Philadelphia during the pandemic, including discrimination, racial slurs and a violent attack, especially targeted Chinese Americans, and went mostly unreported to the authorities. The article detailed a number of incidents which were caused both by
white Americans and African Americans. Media critique organisation
FAIR has documented instances of anti-Asian racism on the street, and reports that many media outlets such as
CNN,
The Wall Street Journal, and
Fox News capitalise on Sinophobia and "
Orientalist tropes that the Chinese are inherently sneaky and untrustworthy, and are ruled by an incompetent, authoritarian government that is the 'sick man of Asia'". An article on
The Conversation has also noted anti-Chinese sentiments from similar media outlets on their
coverage of Chinese wet markets. The
University of California, Berkeley's University Health Services posted an infographic on common reactions to the novel coronavirus epidemic that said "Xenophobia: fears about interacting with those who might be from Asia and guilt about these feelings" is normal. The university was criticized for "normalizing racism". Former presidential candidate
Andrew Yang spoke of an uptick in anti-Asian racism surrounding the coronavirus. In February 2021, Asian American basketball player
Jeremy Lin said he had been called "coronavirus" on the court. Several lawmakers, including members of
Congress, denounced
xenophobia related to the coronavirus in a press conference. They said Asian American businesses across the countryfrom grocery stores to nail salons and restaurantshad been forced into financial crises due to a reduction in customers. Additionally, Asian American businesses have reported coronavirus-related harassment and acts of vandalism. President Trump frequently referred to
SARS-CoV-2 as the "Chinese Virus", "China Virus" and "Kung Flu" (from Kung Fu,
Chinese martial arts) in an attempt to point to its origin, a term considered by some to be
anti-Chinese and racist. He later argued this was "not racist at all" after lawmakers including
Elizabeth Warren raised objections about the statement. Trump also tweeted, on 23 March 2020, that the coronavirus was not Asian Americans' fault and their communities should be protected.
CNN commentators
Chris Cuomo and
Jim Acosta also criticized the use of the term "Wuhan Virus" and "Chinese Virus", although other CNN anchors had used those terms in the past. Trump also brushed off the alleged use of the derogatory term "Kung Flu" by a
White House official to refer to COVID-19 when asked by a reporter during a media session on 18 March 2020. Eventually he pulled back on the "Chinese Virus" name due to Asian communities facing increased number of racist taunts and incidents as the illness spread across the U.S. However, at his
Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on 20 June, Trump referred to the virus as "Kung Flu". Then-U.S.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the virus as the "Wuhan Virus" and said that there was "a significant amount of evidence" it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and blamed the Chinese Communist Party for posing "a substantial threat to our health and way of life." In response to the growing anti-Chinese sentiment, several media outlets and individuals began suggesting that it was not useful to blame Chinese people for the pandemic, and that there was a distinction between the people of China and the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP), accused by some of covering up and mishandling the pandemic. A petition to use the name 'CCP virus' was launched with the White House on 20 March 2020. On 23 March 2020, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI)
New York City office issued an alert reporting that extremists were encouraging one another to intentionally spread the coronavirus to police officers and members of the Jewish community, if they contracted it. That same day, the FBI foiled a terrorist plot by a
white supremacist to use a
car bomb to blow up a
Missouri hospital overflowing with COVID-19 patients, with the man having referenced
far-right conspiracy theories that the virus was "engineered by Jews" online before he was shot and killed in an altercation with FBI agents. On 28 March, the FBI warned again that white supremacist groups were plotting to "expose Jewish people to coronavirus" by having members use themselves as bio-weapons" to infect areas Jewish people are deemed likely to visit. The
Anti-Defamation League and
Life After Hate observed that in addition to the wave of anti-Asian xenophobia online, there was a white nationalist and white supremacist-fueled wave of
antisemitic and
anti-Zionism, including but not limited to claims that Jews and/or Israelis were spreading the virus, but also an online campaign to infect Jews with the virus as a means of murder. The government of New York City cited a report which estimated a forty percent sales drop for Chinese businesses in
Flushing, Queens, while other reports suggested the drop ranged from thirty to eighty percent. It has been reported that the number of restaurants in Chinatown in New York, that remained open decreased from 270 to 40. According to a March 2020 article in
The Korea Times, Asians in the U.S. were being attacked both for wearing face-masks and for not wearing them, creating a dilemma for some Koreans as to which was safer, a choice made even more difficult by conflicting mask guidance from the CDC. At a White House press conference on 10 April 2020,
Surgeon General Jerome Adams claimed that people of color were "socially predisposed" to coronavirus exposure. He was also criticized for calling on minority communities to abstain from drugs and alcohol with condescending language: "Do it for your
abuela. Do it for your
granddaddy, do it for your Big Mama, do it for your pop-pop." Others questioned the validity of the criticism, including Columbia professor
John McWhorter, who challenged the ideology demanding that
root-cause arguments always be included in statements addressing black Americans, and compared outrage at the Surgeon General's statement to that directed at
Barack Obama when he admonished absentee black fathers. Testifying before a
House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on 23 June 2020, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he believes
institutional racism is a contributing factor to the disproportionate effect that the virus has had on African American and other minority communities. On 17 September 2020, the
United States House of Representatives passed a
resolution 243–164 condemning racism tied to the pandemic against Asian Americans. On 14 April 2021, the
US Senate voted 92–6 to advance the "COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act", which would allow the
US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19, with a section of the bill (titled the "Khalid Jabara-
Heather Heyer NO HATE Act", originally drafted by Senator
Richard Blumenthal) dedicated to providing federal grants for states and local governments transitioning to the
National Incident-Based Reporting System, authorizing federal grants for states to establish hate crime reporting hotlines, and allowing courts to require individuals convicted under the
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act to participate in educational programs or community service. On 22 April 2021, the Senate voted 94–1 to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act with bipartisan changes. It then passed the House of Representatives by a 364–62 vote on 18 May and was signed into law by Biden on 20 May. U.S. Olympians
Sakura Kokumai and
Yul Moldauer said they had been targets of hate crimes as of early 2021. On 28 December 2022, following the abrupt end of China's
Zero-COVID policy and subsequent surge of cases, the U.S. instituted a pre-departure testing requirement for all air passengers arriving from China. Since the U.S. had previously abandoned testing of all other foreign arrivals, it was feared that Asians may again become scapegoated in the midst of a pre-existing wintertime surge of cases in the United States.
Arizona A man in
Page was arrested in April and accused of inciting terrorism. The man is accused of making a social media post that calls for the killing of
Navajo people due to COVID-19. The
Navajo Nation has been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak. In March,
Scottsdale city council member Guy Phillips made a private Facebook post claiming COVID stands for "Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease", prompting criticism and allegations of racism. Phillips later issued an apology in a letter to the
Arizona Republic. Asian American students at
Arizona State University have also reported incidents of racism and xenophobia.
Arkansas On 13 March 2021, a
Bentonville Fire Department captain confronted a
Vietnamese American man outside
Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in
Hot Springs, asked him if he knew this was America, made threats, and fought. A security guard separated them but the fire captain ran back to the man, threatened to kill "you and your kind of people", grabbed him by his shirt, pushed him backwards, and punched him.
Garland County charged him with
public intoxication and third-degree
assault. Arkansas has no hate crime statute.
California On 13 February 2020,
Los Angeles County authorities spoke out against a number of bullying incidents and assaults against the Asian American community, including a middle-schooler being beaten and hospitalized. Robin Toma of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission stated, "Many may be quick to assume that just because someone is Asian or from China that somehow they are more likely to be carriers of the virus. We need to speak out against this when we see it. We need to speak up, not be bystanders, be upstanders." Chinatowns across the state have seen a significant drop in business since the beginning of the pandemic, in particular around the
San Francisco Bay Area. In November 2021, Olympic gold medalist
Suni Lee was pepper-sprayed while several people shouted racial slurs at her and a group of other Asian-Americans.
Colorado In July 2020, a group of
Colorado State University students set up an Instagram account and listings for a fake Chinese restaurant in
Fort Collins called "
Ching Chong House" with a description playing into various anti-Chinese stereotypes, including a menu with items such as "mouse tail salad" and "marinated ostrich foreheads" that appears to specifically reference the COVID-19 pandemic allegedly originating in a wet market in Wuhan.
Connecticut On 3 April 2020, a Chinese restaurant in
Seymour received racist phone calls blaming the COVID-19 pandemic on people of Chinese descent and threatening to shoot the owners. In
Stamford, an Asian American woman claimed a cashier sprayed her with
Lysol at a supermarket. A man was arrested for yelling "Go back to China" at a man wearing a mask in
Milford. The man then allegedly pointed his vehicle at the other man.
Delaware In June 2020, flyers described as "racist and xenophobic" by the
University of Delaware were found on vehicles and apartments doors of Asian American students.
Florida In mid-March 2020, in
Miami Beach, Florida, a rapper named 1KJohnny posted an
Instagram video of himself bullying an elderly Asian woman by chasing her with hand sanitizer while shouting, "Sanitize your ass!"
Georgia In April 2020, "Wuhan
plague" stickers depicting
Winnie the Pooh eating a bat were posted on several businesses in
Atlanta. On 16 March 2021, a series of
mass shootings occurred at three
massage parlors in the
metropolitan area of
Atlanta. Eight people were killed, six of whom were women of Asian descent, and one person was wounded. The
South Korean Foreign Affairs Ministry reported that four of the dead were of Korean ethnicity. According to
The Chosun Ilbo, an eyewitness said the shooter said he would "kill all Asians", and some lawmakers and commentators argued that the shootings constituted a
hate crime.
Illinois A 60-year-old Chinese American man was attacked by two women while jogging in
Naperville, Illinois. According to his daughter, they allegedly threw a log at him, accused him of having the virus, spat at him, and told him to "go back to China."
Indiana Two
Hmong men were rejected from two hotels in Indiana because hotel staff thought they might have the virus. A
Korean American doctor born in
Louisville, Kentucky, was kicked out of a
Marathon Petroleum gas station in
Martinsville. The clerk told him he was not allowed to buy anything or use the bathroom, and to never come back. On 27 February 2021, Ardahbek Amantur, 29, told his passengers while at
College Mall in
Bloomington that only four people could legally ride in his car and canceled the Uber ride request. A man in the passenger seat refused to leave his car and asked him repeatedly, "Do you eat bats?", got out of the car, tried to tackle him, knocked the victim to the concrete, took Amantur's glasses, which had fallen to the ground, and purposefully smashed them. On 3 March, Jason Nguyen, a sophomore at
Indiana University from
Fishers, was at IU's Willkie Campus Store when store workers were debating whether they would vote for one of the workers if he ran for president. Nguyen said, "I'd vote for you" and a worker said, "Oh no, no, no you wouldn't vote for him, because people of your kind ..." then caught himself.
Kansas On 19 March 2020, in
Overland Park, Kansas, an Asian American worker was told to move
six feet away from her white co-workers at Taben Group. She was the only person in the office asked to distance herself from others due to safety concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. When the woman filed a complaint of discriminatory treatment, she was fired from the Taben Group. On 19 March 2021, in
Russell, an out-of-state bar patron shouted, "I'm going to kick his ass" and aggressively confronted State Representative
Rui Xu, questioning the use of a face mask and asking if he had COVID-19 while accompanied by the owner of the business.
Louisiana A police officer in
Kaplan, Louisiana, was fired for allegedly making comments on social media about it being "unfortunate" that more black people do not die from COVID-19. CNN reporter
Amara Walker, a Korean American, described three racist incidents that happened to her at the
New Orleans International Airport. According to Walker, a man at the airport said "Ni hao,
ching chong" to her. She says that when she was at the
terminal, a different man asked her if she spoke English and mocked Asian languages. When an airport officer came to the terminal, Walker says that the officer stated that asking someone if they speak English is not racist.
Maine A
homeless man in
Portland was arrested in March 2021 for harassing an Asian woman and her daughter and damaging the woman's car. Police say they are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Maryland In
Howard County, six restaurants, four of which were Asian-owned, were burglarized on
Lunar New Year 2021. In May 2021 in
Baltimore, two women who were closing shop were reportedly assaulted by a 50-year-old man with a
cinder block. The women were elderly, in their late sixties. One got 25 stitches to her head. The man faces assault charges, but hate crime charges were not yet filed.
Massachusetts After a Chinese American
anesthesiology resident left work from
Massachusetts General Hospital, a man followed her and yelled profanities and racial verbal abuse, saying, "Why are you Chinese people killing everyone?" and "What is wrong with you? Why the fuck are you killing us?" Another anesthesiology resident who is of Chinese and
Filipino descent was yelled at by a man on the subway, "Fuck China! Fuck the Chinese!" An
internal medicine resident at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said a frustrated patient at another hospital repeatedly told her to "
go back to your country."
Michigan In
Lansing, a child at the
Reopen Michigan protest danced in
blackface resembling former President
Barack Obama on the steps of the
Michigan State Capitol building.
Minnesota In
Woodbury in March 2020, a threatening racist note was left on the home of an Asian American couple with statements such as "we're watching you" and "take the Chinese virus back to China". In
Moorhead in April 2020, a man was arrested for coughing on two grocery store employees while blaming racial minorities for COVID-19. In September 2020, the words "China virus" were burned onto the front yard of an
Austin man of Chinese heritage.
Missouri In
Eureka, Missouri, a restaurant displayed a racist coronavirus-shaped
piñata, which featured an Asian caricature wearing a
conical hat and
Fu Manchu mustache. These piñatas circulated in parts of Mexico and the U.S. in March 2020.
Nebraska Leirion Gaylor Baird, the Mayor of
Lincoln, Nebraska, said there are racial and ethnic disparities in the city. There were also an increase of hateful and racist incidents toward Asian Americans. This also includes outright racist acts, very aggressive behavior, a lot of staring and remarks to neighbors about staying away from people. One staff member of the Asian Community and Cultural center of Lincoln recalled that a random person came up to sneeze in her face and went away to laugh with their family.
New Jersey On 26 March 2020, Governor
Phil Murphy acknowledged reports of bias incidents against
Jewish Americans and
Korean Americans in
Bergen County, which experienced the worst outbreak in New Jersey. On 4 April 2020, a group of teens in
Edison, New Jersey, surrounded a 55-year-old Asian woman and yelled racial slurs about the coronavirus. One of the teenage girls then punched the woman in the back of the head. In August 2020, a man pleaded guilty to threatening Jews during the pandemic.
New Mexico Racist incidents have occurred in New Mexico. In March 2020, an international student at the
University of New Mexico was targeted with a racist prank outside his dormitory room covered in plastic with the sign "CAUTIONKEEP OUTQUARANTINE". An Asian American advocacy group was also harassed and was told to "go back where you came from." Vandals spray-painted "Trucha with the coronavirus" at the Asian Noodle Bar restaurant in
Albuquerque. It was reported on April that a Vietnamese community member was attacked at
Costco in Albuquerque. An Asian American woman said people harass and use racial slurs at her whenever she goes out and claimed another woman even tried to run her over with a car. She said, "I've been told I don't belong here, I've been told I should go back to China and die there and leave Americans alone." On 29 April 2021, a Florida resident walked into a
massage therapy establishment without a mask on in violation of both state and business requirements, yelled racial slurs at the Asian American female employee, refused to wear a mask when ask by staff to put on a mask, assaulted her while calling her the "Chinese virus" and used other racial slurs, and continued until police arrived. Police charged the attacker with misdemeanor counts of
aggravated battery and leaving painful temporary disfigurement while investigating felony crime and hate crime charges.
New York station amid the coronavirus pandemic Overall during 2020, the
NYPD arrested 20 suspects for committing anti-Asian hate crimes. Of the perpetrators, 55% were non-Hispanic Black, 35% were Hispanic and 10% were non-Hispanic White. 60% of the accused were male and 40% were female. The overall number of anti-Asian hate crimes registered with police had risen from three in 2019 to 28 in 2020. There were 129 reported hate crimes against Asian-Americans in 2021 as of 5 December, up 361% from 28 in 2020, and more than a fortyfold increase since 2019. In March 2020, as New York became a global hotspot, prejudicial sentiment against New Yorkers began to be reported as several states put into place regulations banning, blocking or imposing quarantines on them. New York state governor
Andrew Cuomo proclaimed "We will not let New Yorkers be discriminated against" as he reprimanded Rhode Island for initiating xenophobic procedures targeting New Yorkers. In February 2022 a South Korean diplomat was physically attacked, prompting city councilman
Keith Powers to issue a statement on the increase in hate crimes against the AAPI over the past year.
North Carolina A poster for a Chinese American
real estate agent was vandalized with racial slurs near
Pineville, North Carolina. The real estate agent believes she was targeted because of the coronavirus.
Ohio It was reported in February that there was suspicion and mistreatment of Asian Americans and specifically Chinese Americans in
Northeast Ohio. There has been a decrease of customers of Chinese owned and/or operated businesses. In April 2020, a
Thai American woman was yelled at with racist insults from a driver in a red pickup truck as they both drove through
Lakewood, Ohio. The driver also said, "You're a virus and get out of America. And that's an order." Another woman reported that two young men on bikes spit on her and told her to go home and chanted "Corona, corona" in downtown
Columbus.
Oklahoma On 20 June 2020, in a speech in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, former President of the United States
Donald Trump used language widely considered racist when he referred to COVID-19 as "Kung Flu", a phrase Senior
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway had previously described as "wrong", "highly offensive" and "very hurtful". On 22 June 2020, the
White House defended Trump's use of the term. A bar in
Medford drew backlash after the electronic billboard displayed the words "CHINA VIRUS HOURS". In response, the bar was
review bombed on
Yelp, leading the site to disable reviews for it. Vandalism targeting a
Portland district of Asian-owned businesses has been suggested as being related to racism related to COVID-19. A college student in
Salem was assaulted by two men while walking to a store. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
Pennsylvania In a
Philadelphia SEPTA subway station in March 2020, an Asian couple was surrounded by a group and attacked. Harassment and attacks on Asians have included a reporter for
The Philadelphia Inquirer who was verbally harassed several times during the same month. In August 2020, a woman shouted expletives at a nine-month-pregnant Jing Chen, 38, and her daughter, 12; sprayed water on her; then punched her in the face in Philadelphia at 13th Street and
Walnut Street. On 3 September 2020, Philadelphia's Chinese business community organized two meetings of a panel of Asian-American community leaders and organizers to emphasize how enforcing hate crime laws and
constitutional rights education reduces hate crimes against Asian Americans. In February 2021, a restaurant in
Philadelphia received complaints after naming a macaroni and cheese dish "COVID Mac". The dish in question was made with Chinese
chili. On 4 April 2021, at 2:00pm a homeless man approached two women and struck one, age 27, unprovoked in Philadelphia at 11th Street and Filbert Street. On 6 April 2021, at 7:40pm a man shouted, "You gave me coronavirus" at an Asian American man, 64, repeatedly bumped him then assaulted him in Philadelphia on North 10th Street. The
Philadelphia District Attorney charged the man with ethnic
intimidation, terroristic threats, assault, and other related charges. On 15 April 2021,
Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution to have the
School District of Philadelphia teach Asian American history during
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) to help combat anti-Asian hate.
South Carolina While a
Taiwanese American CNN reporter, Natasha Chen, was working on a Memorial Day weekend story in
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a man racially harassed the reporter about her mask, told her to "get out of his country" with an expletive and that she was responsible for the pandemic.
Texas At a
Sam's Club in
Midland, Jose Gomez, 19, stabbed two adults and two children, including a Sam's Club employee who attempted to stop the attack. The targeted victims were identified as an Asian family, specifically a
Burmese father with a two-year-old and six-year-old. The FBI lists the case as a hate crime as the suspected indicated he stabbed the Asian family because he thought they were Chinese spreading the coronavirus. An
Austin Police Department officer was suspended for text messages, which according to a disciplinary memo, suggested that the recipients, who were former APD officers, would get COVID-19 from a homeless Asian man. One recipient responded with several racial slurs against Asians. On
April Fools' Day 2020, two students from
Angelo State University, Michael Luna and Shane Stumpf, placed several coronavirus warning posters on an international Korean student's dormitory door as a racist prank. When confronted, they fought and then Stumpf pulled out his gun on the Korean student. According to a reporter for the Korean newspaper
Joins.com, Stumpf runs a country music
YouTube channel where he plays in front of a background with the
Confederate battle flag.
Chinatown in Houston faced a drop in customers after people falsely and maliciously spread rumors online of an outbreak of the coronavirus. On 14 March 2021, a
ramen restaurant in
San Antonio was covered in racist graffiti after its owner spoke out against
Governor Abbot's lifting of the state mask mandate.
Utah In March 2021, several Asian Americans in
Salt Lake County received threatening messages. One restaurant was sent a letter blaming Asians for the pandemic.
Washington In
Seattle and elsewhere in Washington State, a rise in anti-Asian racism has been blamed on coronavirus. On 26 March 2020, windows were shattered at Jade Garden restaurant in Seattle's
Chinatown–International District. Total damages were estimated to be around $1,500. The business was already down 80% at beginning of March, which forced the owner to temporarily lay off 33 employees. With this addition of damages, the owner said they did not have enough money for the repairs. The owner said that the damages "weren't just a simple rock being thrown, but a deliberate attack where 'someone took the time in the middle of the night to smash the windows in hard, very forcefully, five times.'" In late March in
Yakima, Minado Buffet had broken windows and the building was spray-painted with hate speech saying, "Take the corona back you chink." Damages would cost $1,000 according to restaurant's owner. In February 2021 in
Renton, a woman was recorded calling an Asian man a chink and throwing a
snowball at him. On 3 April 2021, a 15-year-old was arrested in
Tacoma after a video surfaced of the juvenile attacking an Asian couple. The attack took place on 19 November 2020. On 26 April 2021, a
Caucasian man, 25, encountered two Asian American men in
Bothell (the attacker and the other men were previously unknown to each other), and unprovokedly gave the
middle finger to them as they exited their apartment, lunged with a
hunting knife, stabbed the victim, also 25, in the
heart, and lunged for the other victim who escaped. He was arrested that hour, while the first victim later died.
Wisconsin On 24 March 2020, a student from the
University of Wisconsin saw
chalk graffiti across the street from the campus saying, "It's from China #chinesevirus". On 12 May 2020, a 57-year-old white man was arrested at a grocery store in
Stevens Point for harassing, with racial slurs,
Hmong shoppers wearing masks. ==Oceania==