ATLANTA – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris plan to meet with Asian American community leaders in Georgia in the wake of the deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, the White House announced Thursday.
The pair were already scheduled to travel Friday to Atlanta to tout the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, but the trip took on new meaning after the shootings that killed eight people, six of them Asian women.
A ninth person was also shot but survived. The visit also comes amid an intense debate over voter rights in Georgia. Harris is the first vice president of Asian descent.
Authorities have charged Robert Aaron Long, 21, with murder in the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years. Long told