That community board member was given notice by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams that his reappointment to the community board would not be renewed. In March 2020, as New York became a global hotspot, prejudicial sentiment against New Yorkers began to be reported as several states put into place regulations banning, blocking or imposing quarantines on them. New York state governor Andrew Cuomo proclaimed "We will not let New Yorkers be discriminated against" as he reprimanded Rhode Island for initiating xenophobic procedures targeting New Yorkers. In June 2020 a Korean-American store employee was physically attacked. In June 2020, several Asian-American were either verbally abused or physically assaulted by a man in an incident in Queens. It was reported in February that there was suspicion and mistreatment of Asian Americans and specifically Chinese Americans in Northeast Ohio. There has been a decrease of customers of Chinese owned/operated businesses. In April, Thai-American woman was yelled at with racists insults from a driver in a red pickup truck as they both drove through Lakewood, Ohio. The driver also said, "You're a virus and get out of America. And that's an order." Another woman reported that two young men on bikes spit on her and told her to go home and chanted "Corona, corona" in downtown Columbus. On June 20, 2020, in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the current President of the United States, Donald Trump used racist language when he referred to COVID-19 as "Kung Flu", a phrase that White House staff Kellyanne Conway had previously described as "wrong", "highly offensive" and "very hurtful". On June 22, 2020 the White House defended Trump's use of the racist term. Trump has a years-long history of using offensive terminology aimed at racial minorities. In a Philadelphia SEPTA subway station, an Asian couple was surrounded by a group and attacked. Harassment and attacks on Asians have included a reporter for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" who was verbally harassed several times. While an Asian-American CNN reporter, Natasha Chen, was working on a Memorial Day weekend story in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a man racially harassed the reporter about her mask, told her to "get out of his country" with an expletive and that she was responsible for the pandemic. At a Sam's Club in Midland, a 19-year-old stabbed 2 adults and 2 children including a Sam's Club employee, who attempted to stop the attack. The targeted victims were identified as an Asian family, specifically a Burmese father with a 2-year-old and 6-year-old.