Hundreds In US Rally In Support Of Asian Americans After Fatal Shootings

The killings followed a year of mounting anti-Asian violence in the US, which community leaders say is due to Asian Americans being blamed for coronavirus first identified in Wuhan.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday in support of the Asian American community after a shooting at three local day spas this week left eight people dead, six of them Asian women. The killings followed a year of mounting anti-Asian violence in the United States, which community leaders say is due to Asian Americans being blamed for the coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Crowds of people wearing masks, waving American flags and carrying posters that read "We are not the virus" and "Stop Asian Hate" stood in front of the golden-domed Georgia State Capitol building on Saturday. "I want to make sure the world and the people know that I am here and I am visible," said rally-goer Sunghee Han from Georgia.