“Asia Americans, such as Biden and Koreans, sympathize with the pain… trying to realize justice”

It is reported that US President Joe Biden expressed his stance to strive for justice, saying that he sympathized with the pain that Asian Americans, including Koreans, suffer in connection with the Atlanta shootings.

According to Georgia Congressman Sam Park, President Biden visited Atlanta on the 19th (local time) and conveyed this meaning at a meeting with Asian leaders.

Rep. Park, the second generation of Korean immigrants, was present at the time. He shared the thoughts of President Biden after attending a shooting protest held in a park in front of the Atlanta State Capitol on the 20th.

Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, was shot at three massage shops and spas in Atlanta, Georgia on the 16th, killing eight people. Six out of eight were Asian women, including four Korean Americans.

Rep. Park expressed the atmosphere that President Biden showed tremendous empathy and understanding toward the Korean-American and Asian-American communities that are suffering and suffering.

After introducing that President Biden also suffered the loss of loved ones, Congressman Park said, “President Biden’s sympathy was sincere.”

President Biden has a painful family history in which he lost his wife and daughter in a car accident in a month after the first senator elected in 1972, and sent his eldest son first from brain cancer in 2015.

Rep. Park said, “It was comforting that the supreme power of the United States, the leader of the free world, cares about our community and listens to our concerns, and that we will continue to do everything within our authority to ensure justice and protection of our community. I evaluated it.

Rep. Park also delivered a statement to President Biden that the “Emergency Countermeasure Committee for Asian Crimes Against Asians in Atlanta,” formed by more than 20 Korean-American organizations, condemned the case as an obvious racial offense and called for a prompt and fair investigation. .

Chairman of the Emergency Response Committee Kim Baek-gyu expressed his gratitude for President Biden’s visit to Atlanta and said, “The president should work hard to ensure that this never happens in the future, and our parties must work hard.”

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