Mayor candidate Andrew Yang was cheered and welcomed at the #StopAsianHate rally in Chinatown on Sunday – as he sought more funding for the NYPD’s Asian Hate Crime Task Force.
“The first thing I’m going to do is completely fund the Asian Hate Crime Task Force,” Yang told the crowd gathered at Columbus Park in Chinatown. Video posted on twitter By FreedomNews.tv.
“This is not an issue that you can address to volunteers. If crime against a community goes up by 900 percent, you don’t say, “Oh we volunteers will take care of this,” he said. “You devote resources until the problem realizes that it is going down and not up.”
Yang’s initial statement was initially met with applause – but others in the crowd then chanted and chanted “police disregard” According to the video Shared from the scene.
Upon hearing the crowd’s reaction, pre-trial execution doubled.
“I know there are people who are very passionate about this, but the fact is that when someone stabs, you need to follow the police. That person should not be on the streets.
Later in the clip posted by FreedomNews.tv, Yang can be seen passing through the crowd, while the young activist continues to chant his “rescue” before following him.
Yang’s clipping ends at the rear of a black SUV.
Sunday’s rally was held in Atlanta in response to last Tuesday’s massacre of eight people, including six Asian women. Other accounts posted on Twitter confirmed Yang’s comments to the crowd.
New York City itself is witnessing an increase in anti-Asian attacks, which increased from just two in 2019 to 28 last year.
Yang, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, called the firing in Georgia “a sensational act of racial-violence that has unfortunately become very common in our country.”
“Make no mistake, these women were targeted based on their race,” Mayor Polling Frontner said last Wednesday.
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