Smashed windows and racist graffiti: Vandals target Asian Americans amid coronavirus

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Smashed windows and racist graffiti: Vandals target Asian Americans amid coronavirus
Some vandalized Asian-owned businesses can't afford repairs amid huge customer declines.


Eric Chan and his sister, Ivy, showed up at their family’s restaurant Jade Garden in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District on the morning of March 26 to discover the windows had been shattered.

It’s one of many examples of vandalism across the country directed at Asian Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports say.

Chan estimated that the damage to Jade Garden was around $1,500. Business was already down 80 percent at the beginning of March, forcing Chan to temporarily lay off 33 employees. Now, the restaurant doesn’t have the money to make the necessary repairs, he said.

“This wasn’t just a simple rock being thrown," Chan told NBC Asian America. "Someone took the time in the middle of the night to smash the windows in hard, very forcefully, five times.”


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In another instance in Yakima, Washington, in late March, Tony Yan was checking up on his restaurant, Minado Buffet, which he had closed in concordance with the state’s shelter-in-place directive.

Lisa Li, his wife and co-owner, said the windows were broken and a message was spray-painted in black on the restaurant’s exterior: “Take the corona back you chink.”


“He’s very angry and upset,” their son Nianzu Yan, a Seattle University student, said. “When I heard about it, it was sad and disappointing, but I didn’t feel all that surprised. I had never experienced racism like that.”

With insurance, Yan said it will cost $1,000 to fix the damage to the restaurant.

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In the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California, home to one of the largest Asian American populations in the country, Josh Fleagane and Madeline Yang said they were driving in Pasadena on March 13 when they saw a defaced “Mulan” movie poster.

Josh Fleagane and Madeline Yang said they were driving in Pasadena last month when they saw a defaced "Mulan" movie poster.Courtesy Josh Fleagane
“It was on the opposite side of the street, so we made a U-turn," Fleagane said. "It was important to document."

A white mask was spray-painted over Mulan’s mouth, as well as the words “Toxic, Made in Wuhan.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/smashed-windows-racist-graffiti-vandals-target-asian-americans-amid-coronavirus-n1180556

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Sometimes people really suck.

[Dan]

2. Well I don't know who did this terrible thing to "Jade Garden',

In the International District in Seattle, but for those that don’t know, there are a couple plus large homeless camps within close proximity of International District. Combined with closer proximity to King County’s Jail. And from experience, at night in the southern part of downtown Seattle - the animals do come out.

[Archae]

3. Racism changes targets, but stays the same.

Stupid, illogical, and helps no one.

[Cha]

4. trump breeders.