"White Supremacy Literally Killing Us": Anger After Atlanta Spa Killings

Police have said suspect Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, has so far denied a racist motive for the three shootings in the southern US state of Georgia.

Sadness, anger and fear were coursing on Wednesday through Stephanie Cho, a day after a gunman's attack on spas in the Atlanta area killed eight people -- most of whom were Asian women. Police have said suspect Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, has so far denied a racist motive for the three shootings in the southern US state of Georgia. But Cho, the executive director of advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, fiercely disagreed.  "White supremacy is literally killing us," she said amid a spike in violence targeting Asian-Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.