Washington, March 16 -- Congresswoman Nikema Williams issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) joined U.S. Representatives Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Judy Chu (CA-28), CAPAC Chair Emerita, and Lucy McBath (GA-06) to introduce a resolution commemorating the five-year remembrance of the Atlanta spa shootings.
On March 16, 2021, a gunman senselessly murdered eight people, including six Asian women, and injured a ninth person at two spas and a massage parlor in Atlanta, Georgia. These shootings occurred amid an alarming surge in anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents nationwide fueled by the use of anti-Asian rhetoric that scapegoated Asian Americ...