How long does it take from pent-up anger and rhetoric to action?

2021 values could be the result of 2020's rhetoric.

Good call. I was going to, but for some reason I didn't see the report in 2019 when checking. Edited into the original comment

Worth noting the west coast states with larger Asian populations were largely "locked down" in 2020. Schools didn't reopen until 2021. 2020 didn't have as many opportunities for individual interactions that could lead to such crimes.