“A monkey brain-eating Asian…Leave America” ​​letter

As a series of incidents in which hate letters aimed at Asians were delivered in the United States, police began investigating.

Amid growing awareness of violent crimes targeting Asian seniors and women, a criminal act of indiscriminately sending anonymous hate letters to Asian-owned stores and Asian students has emerged.

Riverside police in California, USA, recently launched an investigation into the Asian hate letter case, local broadcaster NBC4 reported on the 26th (local time).

According to police, an anonymous hate letter was delivered to a nail shop in Riverside on the 21st.

The letter contained racist slurs and insults that Asians “have pancake faces and eat cockroaches, dogs, cats, monkey brains. Smelly and disgusting.”

Also, he didn’t hesitate to threaten to “go back to your terrible country, leave America.”

The person who sent the hate letter anonymously asked the nail shop owner to display his letter in the store for customers and employees to see.

After receiving the hate letter, Vietnamese Jackie Boo released the letter on Instagram, saying, “Hate cannot solve anything. We will not be silent.”

“This letter is disgusting and unacceptable,” said Ryan Railsback, Riverside Police Public Affairs Officer, and is tracking the sender.

A similar letter was also delivered to an Asian nail shop in San Bernardino County, Hillsburg, California.

Hate messages were sent online against Asian high school students in Placer County, California, in Loklin, the local newspaper Sacramentoby reported.

Asian students from Whitney High School in the region recently received a message saying, “You are not welcome here,” along with the content of slandering Chinese through an anonymous Instagram account.

The local school district issued a statement and said that it was conducting an internal investigation and that if the sender was identified, it would be disciplined.

Earlier, a Korean woman living in Silvertown, Orange County, California, also received a hate letter, and the police investigated it.

The woman received an anonymous letter on the day of her husband’s funeral, and the letter contained a threat saying, “One less Asian. Pack up and return to your country.”

In addition, on the 13th, a white fire chief attacked an Asian man in Arkansas.

Benjamin Snodgrass, fire chief of Bentonville, quarreled and assaulted an Asian man. He was charged with third-degree assault in this case and withdrew from the fire chief.

The victim and his attorney urged him to apply the hate crime charge.

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