That's a good article. The Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans don't fuck with "Dirty (Brown) Asians" like that. In fact, in Milwaukee, the Hmongs live mostly in clusters in Black neighborhoods. I'm almost sure that those in Minnesota are about the same.
This article rightly calls out the Big Three Asian groups for the knee-jerk reaction to distance themselves from the face of Thao being plastered around the globe, having just gone through their own whitelash over COVID-19.
They know that at some point, there's gonna be some attention placed on the Asian who just stood watch like a good guard dog model minority.