Governor Husted, your choice of words has only raised the anxiety and fear that Asians and Asian Americans in Upper Arlington are currently experiencing," the letter obtained by the local NBC affiliate read. “Our children are the classmates, friends, and neighbors of your children.”The letter to the lieutenant governor was signed by nearly 70 members and families of the Asian community in Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus. “So it appears it was the Wuhan Virus after all?” Husted tweeted Friday from his personal account. The shock was still fresh when a man was caught on surveillance video Monday in New York City kicking an Asian American woman and stomping on her face while, police say, he shouted anti-Asian slurs. “We called it the Wuhan virus because that’s where it came from,” Johnson said.

Source: ABC News March 31, 2021 16:22 UTC