Police-reported hate crimes against South Asians went up by 227 per cent in the last four years, according to a new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Meantime London police have charged a local man for making threats online against that community as well as Latin Americans. Sunil Gurmukh is a human rights lawyer and the assistant dean in charge of equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization at Western University's law school. He explains what could be behind the troubling trend.
