Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao calls Atlanta-area shootings 'vicious, unconscionable acts of violence'
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Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Thursday said the string of deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area Asian spas "cut at the very core of our country" and that work to combat hate against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community "must intensify."
"My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of the attack in Atlanta," Chao said in a statement first provided to CNN. "Such vicious, unconscionable acts of violence cut at the very core of our country and the values on which it was founded. As we await the findings of a thorough investigation, the critical work to combat the haunting rise of hatred against the AAPI community must intensify with the immediacy this latest tragedy commands."More Related News