PPAAAC
Incident Tracker
INCIDENT TRACKER AGAINST AAPI COMMUNITY JAN-JUNE 2021
Date of Incident : 6/21/2021
Incident Classification : Hate Speech**
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : ​Central
PPD District : 9
Incident Tracker :
Asian family told to go back to wherever they came from.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 6/21/2021
Incident Classification : Harassment
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Northwest
PPD District : 35
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Woman posts signs at an Asian business that state that "Asian people pull guns on black people" and advising people to visit Black-owned businesses.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 6/4/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Northeast
PPD District : 15
Incident Tracker :
Asian teen jumped by two other teens
Verified Hate/Bias : Unconfirmed
Date of Incident : 5/24/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 25
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Asian male dies after being punched in the head while intervening in a road rage incident
Verified Hate/Bias : Unconfirmed
Date of Incident : 5/21/2021
Incident Classification : Ethnic Intimidation
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Asian business received a racist and vulgar note blaming them for COVID
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 5/18/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Elderly Asian woman shoved to the ground by a homeless man
Verified Hate/Bias : No
Date of Incident : 5/15/2021
Incident Classification : Robbery
Incident Type : Assault
Area of Incident :Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Asian storeowner attempts to confront someone trying to steal from their store where they are called "COVID BITCH" and told to "GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY."
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 5/8/2021
Incident Classification : Ethnic Intimidation
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
An unknown driver yells "You gave us the Coronavirus, Chinese Shit" at an Asian male walking with his young son.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 5/7/2021
Incident Classification : Ethnic Intimidation
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Woman yells, "all you chinks get back on the plane and go home" during a confrontation with employees at an Asian market.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 5/6/2021
Incident Classification : Ethnic Intimidation
Incident Type : Harassment
Area of Incident : Northeast
PPD District : 7
Incident Tracker :
Asian owned business receives multiple phone calls from an unknown
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 4/22/2021
Incident Classification : Vandalism
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Planters in Chinatown defaced
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 4/7/2021
Incident Classification : Hate Speech**
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Tik-Tok video where user makes racist statements while in Chinatown
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 4/6/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Asian elder assaulted by man who yelled antiAsian remarks like, "you gave me the coronavirus!"
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 4/4/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Asian woman slapped by homeless man walking by.
Verified Hate/Bias : Unconfirmed
Date of Incident : 4/2/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Juvenile male stating "fucking China" while attempting to punch Asian male after a verbal exchange where the complainant also made a racial statement
Verified Hate/Bias : Unconfirmed
Date of Incident : 3/24/2021
Incident Classification : Robbery
Incident Type : Other
Area of Incident : South
PPD District : 3
Incident Tracker :
Asian store worker attacked when she attempted to stop a person from stealing from her store
Verified Hate/Bias : No
Date of Incident : 3/22/2021
Incident Classification : Harrasment
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Asian woman verbally harassed by stranger while walking with non-Asian friends.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 3/22/2021
Incident Classification : Harrasment
Incident Type : Assault*
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Two Asian teens assaulted and harassed along the subway system by a group of juveniles.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 3/19/2021
Incident Classification : Graffiti
Incident Type :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Planters in Chinatown were defaced with statements like, "Fuck Xi"
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 3/12/2021
Incident Classification : Assault*
Incident Type : Racial AAPI Hate
Area of Incident : West
PPD District : 16
Incident Tracker :
Asian male robbed by two males; one of whom made a "Coronavirus" reference.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 1/29/2020
Incident Classification 1 : Slurs
Incident Classification 2 :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
Two days after being verbally attacked for her ethnicity, a man shouted "China!" at an Asian woman as she was biking to work.
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed
Date of Incident : 1/27/2020
Incident Classification 1 : Slurs
Incident Classification 2 :
Area of Incident : Central
PPD District : 6
Incident Tracker :
While cycling, an elderly woman yelled, "You Chinese!" at an Asian woman cycling [possibly relating to the coronavirus panic]
Verified Hate/Bias : Confirmed