Our author lives in Los Angeles, the assassination in Monterey Park is not the first thing he has to witness from not too far away. And he senses the normal fear that people in the United States now live with.
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Jurgen Schmieder, Los Angeles
Yet again. And above all: again in a place that is familiar to you. Ten people were killed and ten others injured in an assassination attempt in Monterey Park, California, on the fringes of a celebration of the Asian Lunar New Year over the weekend. I was going there on Sunday with my family and friends as well, the area is known for the biggest, the happiest Lunar New Year Festival in Los Angeles. For the first time since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, there should be celebrations there again without restrictions. Everything canceled, instead of joy there is sadness. Yet again.