What’s behind the violence against Asian Americans?

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In the wake of the Atlanta shootings, Freddy Gray talks to Andy Ngo, author of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy about Ngo’s experiences of racism as an Asian-American and what’s behind the rise in violence against the group.

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