Many believe the attacks directly correlate with the rise in racist rhetoric aimed at Asians in regard to the coronavirus pandemic.
The situation that Daniel Dae Kim refers to in his address is the growing number of occurrences of violence and hate against Asian Americans.
There have been numerous reports of attacks against Asian American citizens across the country as of late, many of which involve the elderly.
The latest tragic event in this growing patten was an incident in Atlanta, Georgia, which saw the murder of eight people, six of whom were Asian women, by a white man.