Another Mass Murder In America

UPDATE / 2021.03.20

Say Their Names:

Soon Chung Park, 74;
Hyun Jung Grant, 51;
Suncha Kim, 69;
Yong Ae Yue, 63;
Xiaojie Tan, 49;
Daoyou Feng, 44;
Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33;
Paul Andre Michels, 54.

UPDATE / 2021.03.18

During his press conference yesterday on the murder spree in Atlanta where eight people at three Asian owned businesses, where six of the murdered were women of Asian descent, Captain Jay Baker, a spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff’s office, excused the murderer by saying the guy was ‘having a really bad day’ and that the murders were not anti-Asian racism.

While his statement about the murderer shocked and outraged many, it has been revealed that Captain Baker himself has a history of anti-Asian racism; explains the police officer’s sympathetic statements towards the murderer, a 21-year-old white man. The images here from his Facebook account tell the story of Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Georgia Sheriff’s office.

UPDATE / 2021.03.17

Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Georgia Sheriff’s Office on the white murderer of eight people (six of whom were Asian women), in Atlanta:

He Was Having A ‘Really Bad Day’

A really bad day are you fucking kidding me? Is this a picture book?? Marie Lu (@Marie_Lu)March 17, 2021

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This latest killing spree took the lives of eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent. The murders Tuesday night were at three different businesses in the greater Atlanta area.

Georgia law enforcement arrested a 21-year-old white man, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, the suspected shooter. They have not reported a motive for the murders.

A report released Tuesday by the not-for-profit organisation Stop AAPI Hate (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders), which tracks incidents of violence, discrimination and harassment, shows that from 19 March 2020 to 28 February 2021, “Asian Americans from all 50 states experienced everything ranging from verbal abuse to physical assaults, from getting coughed on to getting denied services because of their ethnicity”.

Photograph: Ringo Chiu/AFP