Newsom, AAPI community leaders in SF condemn spike in anti-Asian hate crimes

Gov. Gavin Newsom joined local Asian American and Pacific Islander community leaders in San Francisco on Friday to discuss and condemn the recent violent acts committed against Asian people both in the city and across the country.

Speaking at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Newsom, Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, and others called for an end to what Chiu called “the most significant anti-Asian set of attacks that we have experienced in our lifetime.”