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In quiet Eden Prairie, Kuhu Singh no longer feels safe walking alone after a string of attacks on Indian-Americans in the United States.
On long weekend strolls in her neighborhood, she now walks with her family to avoid being isolated. And she’s angry that Indians are being threatened. “This is my home,” said Singh, who produces web content for a retail broadcasting company. “You can’t come to my house and ask me to leave.”
Minnesota’s growing Indian community, estimated at 50,000 people, is on edge after recent national attacks.
About 200 residents last weekend held a peace vigil in Eden Prairie to remember two Indian computer engineers shot last month in a Kansas bar by a white man who questioned their visa status and later said he had shot two Middle Easterners. One of the men died in the attack, which is being investigated as a hate crime.
Last week, the Seattle Times reported that an Indian Sikh who is a U.S. citizen was shot and wounded outside his Seattle area home by a man who reportedly shouted, “Go back to your own country!”
Vishal Agarwal, a school administrator and biomedical lab manager from Maple Grove, said he’s not letting a fringe segment of society rattle him.
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Indian families in Minnesota are on edge after U.S. attacks
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In quiet Eden Prairie, Kuhu Singh no longer feels safe walking alone after a string of attacks on Indian-Americans in the United States.
On long weekend strolls in her neighborhood, she now walks with her family to avoid being isolated. And she’s angry that Indians are being threatened. “This is my home,” said Singh, who produces web content for a retail broadcasting company. “You can’t come to my house and ask me to leave.”
Minnesota’s growing Indian community, estimated at 50,000 people, is on edge after recent national attacks.
About 200 residents last weekend held a peace vigil in Eden Prairie to remember two Indian computer engineers shot last month in a Kansas bar by a white man who questioned their visa status and later said he had shot two Middle Easterners. One of the men died in the attack, which is being investigated as a hate crime.
Last week, the Seattle Times reported that an Indian Sikh who is a U.S. citizen was shot and wounded outside his Seattle area home by a man who reportedly shouted, “Go back to your own country!”
Vishal Agarwal, a school administrator and biomedical lab manager from Maple Grove, said he’s not letting a fringe segment of society rattle him.
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Indian families in Minnesota are on edge after U.S. attacks