People in 60 US cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Portland, took to the streets to protest violence against Asians on March 27.

Hundreds of people gathered in Queens County, New York, responding to calls for protests across America.

Protesters in Los Angeles hold up a banner "Stop the violence" on March 27.

Like many other organizers, Chang attributed the growing stigma towards Asians due to political rhetoric that saw China as a threat.

The March 16 shooting in Atlanta left eight people dead, including six Asian women, increasing fears of hate crimes during the pandemic.

Demonstrators marched in Michigan on March 27.

"I'm not a virus, I'm not an enemy, I'm Chinese-American and I love who I am," said a protester, holding a banner as he marched with about 100 other people in the capital's Chinatown.

Irving Lee, a Queens protester, calls "anti-Asian violence" a "byproduct of American foreign policy".

When the nCoV started spreading across the United States in early 2020, a number of politicians, including then US President Donald Trump, called nCoV the "Wuhan virus" or "the Chinese virus".