NEW DELHI: In a press briefing on Thursday, the White House strongly denounced violence primarily based on components like race or gender, categorising such behaviors as unacceptable inside the nation.
John Kirby, the Coordinator for Strategic Communications on the National Security Council, expressed the administration’s dedication to stopping and thwarting such assaults. He underscored President Joe Biden and his group’s concerted efforts to collaborate with state and native authorities in addressing the difficulty and guaranteeing accountability for these accountable.
While responding to a query about latest assaults on Indian college students and issues amongst mother and father to ship their kids to the US, he stated, “There’s no excuse for violence, certainly based on race or gender or religion or any other factor. That’s just unacceptable here in the United States and the President and his administration has been working very, very hard to make sure we’re doing everything we can to work with state and local authorities to try to thwart and disrupt those kinds of attacks and make it clear to anybody who might consider them that they’ll be held properly accountable.”
The assertion comes within the wake of a sudden surge in assaults and fatalities involving people of Indian descent within the United States.
On February 7, a 41-year-old man of Indian origin handed away within the United States, a number of days after sustaining life-threatening accidents in an assault in downtown Washington, as reported by the police. The deceased has been recognized as Vivek Taneja from Alexandria, Virginia.
According to the police report, the incident occurred on February 2 at round 2.00am (native time), resulting in Taneja being promptly transported to the hospital for medical consideration.
“On Friday, February 2, 2024, at approximately 2.00am, Second District officers responded to the listed location for reports of an assault. Upon arrival, officers located an adult male suffering from life-threatening injuries as a result of an assault. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment,” the Metropolitan Police Department’s official launch stated.
However, succumbing to essential accidents, he was declared lifeless on February 7. The Metropolitan Police in Washington, DC, has been actively looking for public help in figuring out and finding the suspect.
In one other incident, a brutal assault unfolded in Chicago on February 4, concentrating on an Indian scholar named Syed Mazahir Ali. Following the assault, the Indian Consulate in Chicago reported being in touch with the sufferer and his spouse in India.
Videos circulating on social media depicted Ali bleeding profusely as he recounted the harrowing incident. Additionally, CCTV footage, additionally shared on social media, revealed Ali being pursued by three assailants on the streets of Chicago.
Earlier this month, the mysterious dying of an Indian scholar named Shreyas Reddy in Cincinnati, Ohio, raised issues. The explanation for his dying stays unknown at current, with stories indicating that Reddy was a scholar on the Linder School of Business.
On January 30, Neel Acharya, a scholar at Purdue University, was found lifeless after being lacking for a number of days, in keeping with the Tippecanoe County Coroner.
Prior to that, Vivek Saini, one other Indian scholar, fell sufferer to a brutal assault involving repeated blows from a hammer by a homeless man inside a retailer in Lithonia, Georgia, US. Although a video of the incident circulated on social media, the precise date of the incidence can’t be confirmed.