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Police say the suspect in the provocative assault of an Asian man in Los Angeles has not yet been identified.

(CNN)Los Angeles police are searching for suspects arrested in a surveillance video attacking an Asian man earlier this week. Officials said.

Police video footage shows the suspect using his elbows to beat the victim's face when they were outside a storefront near Koreatown on Monday. .. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the victim fell to the ground as a result of an "unprovoked" attack and appeared unconscious in the video.

The video shows that after the assault, a bystander approached the suspect, confronted the suspect, and continued a dialogue between the two. The suspect then picked up the unconscious victim and handed it to a bystander. The attacker begins to walk away from the bystanders and victims and does not appear to be interacting with them anymore. What's more isn't clear from the video.

Los Angeles Police Department says it is seeking the help of the general public to identify the suspect and is actively investigating the attack.

The Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission has contacted LAPD to detect potential hate crime evidence, including interviews with witnesses and suspects, postings on social media, and comments by suspects. Said to confirm that he was investigating. Incident. Authorities have not yet stated a decision on whether assault constitutes a hate crime.

Hate crimes, including those for Asians in the United States, have increased exponentially in recent years. Covid-19's pandemictriggered attacks on Asiansas online and political rhetoric blamed Asians, but hate crimes in this category are often underreported. ..
According to the FBI's hate crime report, attacks targeting Asians surged from 161 to 279 in 2019 in 2020. Statistics from 2021 have not been released yet.
The category of hate crimes targeting victims due to race, ethnicity, or ancestry increased significantly between 2019 and 2020, 2020. There were 3,954 single-bias cases. Previous year.

'Anti-Asian violence continues'

Advocates show that attacks in Los Angeles show a larger pattern of violence against Asian Americans Shows-Determine the assault is a hate crime, whether police or not.

"When I see an Asian man being beaten in Koreatown for nearly 40 years since the day of Vincent Chin's brutal murder, he calms down how anti-Asian violence continues. "Reminds me," said Connie Chung Joe, who heads a nonprofit organization. Asian Americans Promoting Justice-Los Angeles.

"For the Asian-American community, this is a surge in violence and attacks on the community, regardless of whether police ultimately determined that there was sufficient evidence to call this a hate crime. There is no doubt that this is another example of this pandemic. "

Chinese-American Chinis two Caucasians who worked in the automobile industry in 1982 in Detroit during the face of economic decline due to Japanese competition. He was beaten by a man and died. .. The pair did not spend a whole day in jail because of their crime.
In Los Angeles, the county's Relationship Committee runs theLA Anti-Hate Program, which may help victims. Through the

program, staff can facilitate meetings with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and obtain civil relief. This is when there are elements of prejudice and discrimination exhibited by government agencies, businesses, or people. Manju Kulkarni, co-founder of

Stop AAPI Hate, told CNN that her organization has proposed two bills in the California State Legislature to stop public harassment. He said he was doing it.

"I don't know the motive behind this identification of Asian Americans, but how much the problem of anti-AAPI harassment is, not only in such violence cases, but in many people. I know it's realistic. More public harassment moments when racial and ethnic slurs are screaming at AAPI just trying to live their lives, "said Kulkarni.