'Dash & Lily' Star Midori Francis Tweets She Was Spat On In Racist Attack

. Tweeting that she was relieved to be able to report the incident, Francis added it was"sad to see there was a whole category for being spat on."

The attack on Francis came as a wave of anti-Asian hate crime has swept the country over the past year, including the March 16 shootings outside Atlanta, in which a gunman visited three Asian massage parlors and killed eight people, including six Asian women.star Arden Cho posted on Instagram that she was the subject of a racially motivated attack on Wednesday night while out walking her dog.

Cho added in her post that the incident resurfaced"trauma" from racist attacks in her childhood, recounting how she was badly beaten by a 14-year-old boy when she was 10 years old."I've been kicked in the face till I was unconscious and hospitalized, I was only a kid. I didn't realize how much that incident shaped my life. How much fear I've always lived with," the actress wrote.

Like many other prominent Asian American stars, Francis has been vocal about the rise of racist attacks and rhetoric. Speaking to the Bronx'sin March she said,"I feel on edge sometimes walking around Asian in this country, right now." She added,"As a community, Asian Americans often feel they can't speak out or even voice their experiences with racism in this country. So, I know there is a lot that's been underreported."I tried calling the Los Angeles police . They directed me to their non emergency number but I couldn’t get through. I didn’t see an option for hate crimes online. I’m a Asian woman.

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