Anti-Asian violence affects more women says local professor


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"Women are disproportionately impacted by anti-Asian harassment and violence in the past year," said University of Michigan Prof. Melissa Borja, reacting to the killings in Georgia at three massage parlors. "So, this is really only intensifying the fears that Asian American people and Asian American women, in particular, are experiencing right now." RELATED: 8 killed in shootings at 3 Atlanta-area spas Prof. Borja is part of the university's Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Task Force that documents and tracks incidents of AAPI hate to understand the impact and offer support. The victims in Tuesday's string of murders are mostly...