Federal resources could be coming to Seattle to encourage victims to report hate crimes

More aid could be coming to western Washington to help federal prosecutors tackle hate crimes. Tanya Woo grew up in the Chinatown-International District (CID) and is a lead volunteer for the CID Community Watch. The group walks through the CID several times a week to check on people in the community after a rise in racism and crime. “They say you punch one of us, we all feel it, and I really do feel the pain and the hurt and the fear, especially over these last couple of years which have been really tough for this community,” said Woo. The number of anti-Asian hate crime cases nearly doubled in King County at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers dropped last year, but Woo said hate crimes are severely under-reported. READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.king5.com/article/news/lo...