[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Trixie Ling can relate to how Yue felt. She was walking down a Vancouver street when she said she was confronted by a young white man who called her names and then spit on her.
He kept walking, she said, adding she was too stunned to call police so there were no charges.“I felt so angry,” says Ling.The Vancouver Police Department says there has been a 600 per cent increase in reports of hate crimes targeting the Asian community, whether they’re of Chinese, Korean or Japanese descent.
British Columbia’s Anti-Racism Network doesn’t think there’s a rise in hate crimes because it’s always been there.“We are in a time right now where people are feeling more open about.