Austin brewery launches special beer to help stop anti-Asian hate crime

AUSTIN (KXAN) — When a man shot and killed eight people in an anti-Asian attack in Georgia last year, Chris Gomez was shaken up.“The first thing I thought of was my older Asian mother,” he said. “She could be susceptible to hate crime.”The murders were the most shocking example of a disturbing trend amid the COVID-19 pandemic – a spike in hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the U.S.Fortunately, Gomez’ mother ha