Groups increase the pressure on the police to investigate assault as hate crimes – Asamnews

Asian American civil rights groups say the attack of a 71 -year -old Japanese
American professor outside of Los Angeles is proof that anti-Asian hatred has not disappeared.

As Asamnews previously reported, a driver rammed from behind with his vehicle in Aki Mahara when the teacher ran his electric bike. The history professor, which teaches about the breed in America, says that the driver screamed several anti-Asian slopes during the incident and left him with a concussion and several injuries.

“Unfortunately, I think that people could think that pandemic, as soon as pandemic has passed, has this time of increased hatred,” said Robin Toma, executive director of the district commission for human relationships, reported Laist. “I am here to say that this doesn't seem to be the case.”

The civil rights group asked the police in Montebello to include the full weight of the department in the investigation, according to NBC4. Many in the Asian American community believe that Maehara is a victim of a hate crime, but the police still have to classify it as such.

“We definitely take it seriously,” Sgt. Craig Adams said Laist. “It is probably our No. 1 priority at the moment. We only have six detectives with other cases, but we try to throw everything we can.”

Maehara described what happened to him during a press conference on Thursday in the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles.

“Go back to C – Land,” said the professor that he heard when the car drove away.

He says he believes he knows who was behind the wheel, but the police had not named a suspect in the case.

Maehara, who declined to teach, says that after the attack, he still has intensive pain and suffered after emotional trauma.

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