Op-Ed: Why the Monterey Park shooting feels like an attack on Asian America
1 year, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Why the Monterey Park shooting feels like an attack on Asian America

LA Times  

For thousands of fellow Asian Americans, Monterey Park is our home — even if we don’t live there. Monterey Park represents Asian America, today — how far we’ve come and how we’ve built community despite encountering barrier after barrier. By the early 1990s, Monterey Park became majority-Asian, with Chinese culture on full display and an array of Asian businesses to patronize. Saturday’s mass shooting in Monterey Park rattled Asian America.

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After Monterey Park shooting, pastor tried to de-stigmatize therapy for Asian immigrants
1 year ago

After Monterey Park shooting, pastor tried to de-stigmatize therapy for Asian immigrants

LA Times  

Eric Chen never met Yu Lun Kao. “That’s where the tragedy hits even closer to home.” After the shooting, Chen served as the liaison among Kao’s family, U.S. Rep. Judy Chu’s office and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. Shally, whose dance partner died in the shooting and who witnessed the shooting, pays her respects at a …

What's prompting more Asian Americans to taking up guns in the US?
1 year, 10 months ago

What's prompting more Asian Americans to taking up guns in the US?

Firstpost  

Azusa: Ricky Lam has always stayed away from guns. “But it’s a great tool for self-defence; I’d rather have protection than rely on good luck.” Pandemic Around 6.6 per cent of the US population identifies as ethnically Asian, and, while no precise national statistics exist, gun industry watchers say the community has traditionally been less involved with guns than other …

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction
1 year, 10 months ago

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

LA Times  

People in Oakland gather Wednesday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the shooting victims in Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland. California Honoring the lives lost in the Monterey Park mass shooting On Jan. 21, the Monterey Park community was shattered when the Star Ballroom Dance Studio became the site of one of California’s worst mass shootings in …

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings
1 year, 10 months ago

A look at California's back-to-back mass shootings

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hours after the city of Monterey Park held a …

Monterey Park, an Asian cultural hub, shaken by shooting
1 year, 10 months ago

Monterey Park, an Asian cultural hub, shaken by shooting

Associated Press  

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — For decades, Monterey Park has been a haven for Asian immigrants seeking to maintain a strong cultural identity — and a culinary heaven worth visiting for anybody near Los Angeles craving authentic Asian cuisine. Kristina Hayes, who started staging tango events at Star Ballroom when the studio reopened after the pandemic, said dance is “hugely important” …

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions
1 year, 10 months ago

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

LA Times  

Mourners take part in a vigil for victims of a mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park. Paul Hoang, a licensed clinical social worker, said he felt “deep sorrow” at the news that all three shooting suspects were older Asian American men. “Many of the services that are available right now are not culturally sensitive to …

Column: In Monterey Park and now Half Moon Bay, the pain of hearing it’s ‘one of our own’
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: In Monterey Park and now Half Moon Bay, the pain of hearing it’s ‘one of our own’

LA Times  

Mourners take part in a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at the Star Dance Studio in Monterey Park. And yet, even when Black people are killed in acts of hate — like when an 18-year-old white supremacist drove 200 miles to shoot Black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., last year — it doesn’t take long …

US: Residents of 'very safe' Monterey Park stunned by mass shooting
1 year, 11 months ago

US: Residents of 'very safe' Monterey Park stunned by mass shooting

Firstpost  

The mass killing – the deadliest US shooting since the Uvalde massacre, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed in an elementary school in Texas – took Monterey Park by surprise Monterey Park, United States: The “Year of the Rabbit” began in horror on Sunday for the inhabitants of Monterey Park, the largely Asian American suburb of Los …

Asian community reeling after Lunar New Year shooting
1 year, 11 months ago

Asian community reeling after Lunar New Year shooting

Associated Press  

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — It was a joyful kickoff to the first Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park since before the pandemic, with large crowds filling the streets in the majority Chinese American city near Los Angeles for live entertainment, carnival rides and plenty of food. Sunday’s festivities were canceled, though some Lunar New Year celebrations went on in …

Opinion: The incomprehensible tragedy of Monterey Park
1 year, 11 months ago

Opinion: The incomprehensible tragedy of Monterey Park

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jeff Yang is a research director for the Institute for the Future and the head of its Digital Intelligence Lab. Instead, Asian Americans woke up Sunday to the horrific news of yet another mass shooting the day before affecting our community — this one taking place at a ballroom dance studio in the suburban immigrant enclave of Monterey …

What we know about Monterey Park shooting, suspect, victims?
1 year, 11 months ago

What we know about Monterey Park shooting, suspect, victims?

Al Jazeera  

The suspect shot himself after killing 10 people at a dance club in the Los Angeles area. Authorities are searching for what motivated the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations on Saturday evening. A gunman shot dead 10 people late on Saturday at a ballroom dance club in Monterey Park …

Monterey Park shooting shocks close-knit California community
1 year, 11 months ago

Monterey Park shooting shocks close-knit California community

Al Jazeera  

Residents thought their community was safe from the gun violence that continues to plague the US. The peaceful and close-knit community of Monterey Park has been left reeling from the mass shooting at a ballroom dancing studio over the Lunar New Year weekend that left 10 people dead and 10 more wounded. “In my heart, I always felt the United …

How the Monterey Park shooting and manhunt for the gunman unfolded
1 year, 11 months ago

How the Monterey Park shooting and manhunt for the gunman unfolded

CNN  

CNN — The shooting at a Monterey Park, California, dance studio Saturday night set off a 12-hour manhunt for the gunman who carried out the attack that left 11 people dead and almost as many injured. 10:22 p.m. PT Saturday, January 21: Shots are fired at a dance studio A man enters and starts shooting inside Star Ballroom Dance Studio …

Witnesses tell how 'screaming' dancers took refuge in seafood restaurant
1 year, 11 months ago

Witnesses tell how 'screaming' dancers took refuge in seafood restaurant

Daily Mail  

32 people have died in shootings - in Utah, Ohio, California and North Carolina The Lunar New Year shooting in Los Angeles was the 5th mass shooting this year Witnesses described the scenes after a mass shooting in a ballroom on Saturday Witnesses have described the horrific scenes that ensued after a shooting during a Lunar New Year celebration last …

Lunar New Year shooting: A grim moment in Monterey Park, America’s first suburban Chinatown
1 year, 11 months ago

Lunar New Year shooting: A grim moment in Monterey Park, America’s first suburban Chinatown

LA Times  

Sometime between 1970 and 1990, Monterey Park became America’s first suburban Chinatown, where swift demographic changes heralded conflicts over language, signs, a changing business scene and political voice. Please pray for the victims and their families, pray for the city to recover and pray for all the residents in Monterey Park to be strong and be united!” California Authorities identify …

Terror at Monterey Park dance studio: What we know about Lunar New Year mass shooting
1 year, 11 months ago

Terror at Monterey Park dance studio: What we know about Lunar New Year mass shooting

LA Times  

Investigators searching for a motive in one of the worst mass shootings in modern Los Angeles County history say a search of the suspected gunman’s home discovered a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and evidence he was manufacturing gun silencers. California Honoring the lives lost in the Monterey Park mass shooting On Jan. 21, the Monterey Park community was …

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