More than 650 reports of discrimination, mainly against Asian Americans, have been shared with Stop AAPI Hate, an online incident reporting site created by the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), since A3PCON launched the form on March 18, according to NBC News in a March 26 report.
“Numerous Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have reported experiencing microaggressions, racial profiling, hate incidents and in some cases, hate violence. In Los Angeles, a child in San Fernando Valley was physically assaulted at his middle school and accused of having the coronavirus simply because he is AAPI. On a San Francisco street, a young AAPI woman was spat upon and blamed for bringing the coronavirus to the U.S.,” reads A3PCON’s “Coronavirus Anti-AAPI Racism Incident Report,” which also includes a form for individuals to submit racist incidents.