The man reproaches an Asian American at a busy OC park, and the spectators fail to intervene

In the latest disturbing episode of anti-Asian attacks, an Olympic hopeful from Orange County was in a training park for the summer games, when a man targeted her in an incident that he caught on video.

“I was shocked … I didn’t know what to do. stated for ABC7 in an interview.

“You’re so small,” the man is said to say in the footage. – I’ll make your boyfriend.

“There was no racial insult at first,” Kokumai said, “but as he got in the car, he shouted ‘Chinese’ and ‘Sashimi’ and then I was like OK there.”

Sakura Kokumai says she worked at Grijalva Park – just as she does every day as she prepares for the Olympics. She is set to represent the United States at the Tokyo Games this summer – as the first American to qualify for the Karate Olympics.

The porters fired after not intervening in the violent attack on an Asian woman from New York

That’s why she says she was so calm: she knew that if she had to, she could fight back. She said the man out of nowhere started harassing her for almost 20 minutes.

“You know what? If this was my mother … what if this was my grandmother … she got scared there, because I knew I could handle the situation, being calm,” Kokumai said. “You don’t want to be aggressive. But my concern was, if there was anyone else?”

In 2020, there were 10 times more hate incidents and crimes against Asian Americans in Orange County. Most of these crimes have been made public, according to the Commission for Human Relations in Orange County.

Just last month, an 82-year-old Asian Asian woman from the Leisure World retirement community in Seal Beach received a letter on the day of her husband’s funeral – saying his death was a good thing because it means “one less Asian to bear. . “