'You started the corona!' As anti-Asian hate incidents explode, climbing past 800, activists push for aid
LOS ANGELES - Wearing their masks, Donalene Ferrer and two other generations of family members were walking along an Oceanside neighborhood in April when a car pulled up and a woman yelled: "You started the corona!"
The accuser, with a baby and a toddler in tow, turned out to be her mother's neighbor, Ferrer said. Still in shock, the victim said she stepped near the woman to ask, "Why are you targeting us? I'm a nurse and my father fought for this country. You shouldn't be teaching your children racism."
Ferrer, 41, a Filipina, remembered the unmasked woman taunting them back: "Come over here. Say it to my face." But worried that the person might be carrying a hidden weapon, Ferrer
