An battered Asian woman in San Francisco plans to donate nearly $ 1 million to fight racism

An battered Asian woman in San Francisco plans to donate nearly $ 1 million to fight racism

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After Xiao Zhen Xie was punched in the face on March 17 in San Francisco in what the police said was an unprovoked attack, she responded with a punch. “He intimidates the elderly,” said Xie in a video recorded after the attack by CNN affiliate KPIX. “So I punched him.”
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After the attack, Xie had two black eyes, a swollen wrist and a post-traumatic stress disorder that made her very scared to leave the house, according to a GoFundMe page created by her family to raise money for medical bills.

GoFundMe raised more than $ 930,000 in one week after the attack. The original target was $ 50,000.

Now her family says Xie wants the money to go to the Asian-American community to fight racism, saying the problem is bigger than she is, according to online fundraising.

The page also says that Xie’s physical and mental health has improved. She can now open her injured eye and is “in a better mood”.

Rising anti-Asian attacks

The San Francisco Police Department said at the time that a 39-year-old man had attacked an 83-year-old Asian man and was being chased by a security guard when he hit Xie. The suspect was taken to San Francisco County Jail and is expected to appear in court later this month.

After the attack, the police said the investigators were “working to determine whether prejudice was a motivating factor”.

San Francisco police increased patrols in predominantly Asian neighborhoods after “an alarming increase in anti-Asian violence in recent weeks” in the bay area, the department said.

Anti-Asian attacks increased dramatically in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Stop AAPI Hate group says it received more than 500 reports of anti-Asian hate incidents in the first two months of 2021.

CNN’s Cheri Mossburg, Stella Chan, David Williams, Dan Simon and Augie Martin contributed to this story.

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