Authorities are asking the public to help identify the victim, whom they described as a “biological male” of Asian descent who was wearing women’s clothes when the body was discovered in 2011.
“Originally a Trump-era initiative sold as a national security measure, the China Initiative instead turned out to be a witch hunt,” civil rights groups said.
“People are still taking AAPI voters for granted given the size of the electorate in the state," one expert said of California, the state with the most Asian American residents.
The increase in Asian American and Pacific Islander voter registration, compared to 2020, was more than double the increase of both new Black and white voters.
In December 2022, Sullivan yelled “go back to China” to a group of Asian Americans in Quincy and threatened to kill them before repeatedly hitting one of them with his car.