House addresses anti-Asian bigotry after Atlanta killings

Tuesday’s shooting deaths in Atlanta of eight people — six of whom were Asian American women — brought to national consciousness the string of attacks that have targeted people of Asian descent in recent months but have resulted in few hate crimes charges. Pandemic-fueled political rhetoric by former President Donald Trump is seen as a factor in the attacks, and the House is holding a hearing today on the issue — an issue that Vivien Tsou of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum says is driven by the same white supremacist forces seen in the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.