![]() ![]() “No grandmother should have to go through this kind of hate,” one donor said. Thousands shared messages of sympathy and support. ![]() More than 22,500 people in 50 US states and 55 countries contributed. The fundraising page that Xie’s grandson, John Chen, set up has raised more than $649,000, and has been the most visited fundraiser on GoFundMe for the past 24 hours, a spokesperson for the organizing platform said. “The right eye still cannot see anything and is still bleeding, and we have something to absorb the bleeding,” she said. “My mom feels dizzy, and very scared, and traumatized – and very hurt,” Dong-Mei Li, Xie’s daughter, told KPIX on Thursday. Footage of her sobbing, holding a cold pack up to her bleeding eye as police apprehend her assailant struck a raw nerve, as the country contends with a surge of anti-Asian attacks. In a video of the incident, Xie points to the wooden plank she used to strike back at him. ![]() The GoFundMe pages for two elderly, Asian victims of assault in San Francisco have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors around the world, as the US reels from the Atlanta shootings that killed eight people, including six Asian women.Ī day after the Atlanta shootings, Xiao Zhen Xie, 75, was standing at a San Francisco intersection, waiting to cross the street, when a white man ran up to her and punched her face. ![]()
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