- Jung’s parents encountered the man again about 20 minutes later, and that time, the incident was captured on video. “The man points and shouts at my parents and my dad tries to take a picture so he can give it to the police,” Jung said.
- Jung recalled how his father could not hear what the attacker was saying during the incident and how his mother screamed while they were being assaulted. The surveillance footage also shows the man picking up a construction sign to throw at the elderly couple.
- “We want a record that says, ‘Look there’s this guy attacking old Asian people on the street’ that should at least be documented,” Jung said.
- One of the several Asian Americans who have commented on issues regarding the authorities’ response to anti-Asian attacks is Forrest Liu, coordinator of the Chinatown Safety Patrol. Liu started the community-driven volunteer group in January following the attack on Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai American who died after being shoved by a teenager in a neighborhood in San Francisco.
- “Your first instinct should be to contact law enforcement and not have to take matters into your own hands. I think that really paints a picture of how much public safety is an issue right now,” Liu said.
- “On behalf to the Vicha Ratanapakdee family, we ask that the DA to commit to timely communicating with victims of hate and providing language interpretation services and identifying what he and his office are doing to protect the API community and to be transparent in how he’s making decisions in charging hate crimes,” the letter read in part.
- The letter was co-signed by eight other organizations, including the SF Case, Stand With Asians, the Chinatown Safety Patrol and Southeast Asian Development Center.