The fatal attack on an elderly Thai man walking in San Francisco earlier this year sparked outcries across the nation from Asian Americans pained both by his senseless death and by a longer-simmering problem of anti-Asian sentiment, harassment and violence — some of it deadly — in the U.S. over the past year. Ryan Doan Nguyen, one of the organizers of this past weekend’s Stop Asian Hate rally in Boston, and Robert Trestan, the local head of the Anti-Defamation League, joined Jim Braude to discuss.
