It was below freezing and growing dark. Still, the women stood patiently in line in front of a storefront on Manhattan’s Mulberry Street in mid-March. They were seeking pepper spray.
Soar Over Hate, a non-profit group, ended up handing out more than a thousand bottles of it that day, as well as handheld alarms, to fearful Asian Americans, some of whom had waited in line for over two hours.
The giveaway took place just a ten-minute walk from where Christina Yuna Lee, a 35-year-old Asian American woman, was stabbed over 40 times by a stranger who followed her home, one of the most harrowing of a spate of attacks on Asian Americans in New York City in recent months.
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