Actress Olivia Munn is speaking out against recent violent attacks against fellow Asian Americans.
Munn, known for her roles in movies such as X-Men: Apocalypse and the HBO series The Newsroom, told NBC News that she’s doing her best to highlight these incidents, citing one attack, which went viral, during which an Asian American woman was thrown to the ground by a man in New York City. Munn said that she shares a friend in common with the son of the woman.
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“Seeing the video, it was heartbreaking,” she said. “It was just immediate that we had to post it, amplify it. I asked Twitter, Instagram, the internet to do its thing and to help us. And thankfully, they did.”
On Feb. 18, police announced the arrest of a suspect, 47-year-old Patrick Mateo. He was charged with assault and harassment, and police credit his arrest, at least in part, to “numerous tips from the community.”
Mateo told NBC News that he was sprayed with Mace by the victim and that fuller video of the incident will exonerate him.
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This case focused on just one of numerous attacks against elderly people in Asian communities in the nation’s urban centers.
“We’re not safe in this country, you know, as minorities, we’re not safe. Our Asian community is not safe,” Munn said, adding that she believes Asian immigrants often don’t report incidents of bias “because we don’t really feel like this is our country. We don’t feel like the police are there to support us, that the government is there to support us, that our fellow Americans are seeing us as fellow Americans.”
