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· Ryan General
Man Arrested For Hate Crime After Threatening to Shoot Chinese Customers at SF Bakery
A man who threatened to shoot Asian customers at a bakery in San Francisco has been arrested on hate crime charges, local authorities confirmed. Police were called to the 300 block of Golden Gate Avenue in Tenderloin on Sunday morning after a man “entered a local business,…
· Grace Kim
NYC Martial Arts Schools See More Interest Due to Anti-Asian Violence
Martial arts schools in New York City reported that more people are expressing interest in their self-defense classes amid the rise of anti-Asian violence. “On a typical week we might get a handful of inquiries. The past two weeks it has been, I would say, quadruple that,” Jay…
· Carl Samson
Asian Man Threatened by Racist in Home Depot in New York City
A 28-year-old Asian man has fallen victim to a racist attack that threatened his life in New York City earlier this week. The incident, now under investigation as a hate crime, occurred while the victim was shopping with his non-Asian girlfriend at a Home Depot in Brooklyn…
· Grace Kim
Man Arrested in Hate Crime After Stomping on Elderly Asian Woman in NYC
A man has been arrested on Wednesday on hate crime charges for the brutal assault of a 65-year-old Asian woman in Midtown Manhattan, according to police. The suspect, identified by the New York City police as Brandon Elliot, 38, was charged with two counts of assault as a hate…
· Carl Samson
Over 60 Volunteers Are Now Patrolling Flushing for Anti-Asian Violence
An all-citizen patrol group has assembled in Flushing, Queens to deter further incidents of anti-Asian violence. Main Street Patrol, which targets the busiest streets in the neighborhood, has now grown into 60 members since its inception in February.
· Carl Samson
Witnesses Ignore Elderly Asian Woman Punched and Kicked in Broad Daylight in NYC
A 65-year-old Asian woman has been hospitalized after being helplessly assaulted in New York City on Monday while bystanders ignored her. The incident, which was caught on video, occurred just before noon outside an apartment building at 360 West 43rd Street in Midtown…
· Grace Kim
Man Arrested On Hate Crime Charges For Threatening Elderly Asian Woman in NYC
A man, 48, has been arrested for harassing an elderly Asian woman, 65, in Midtown Manhattan over the weekend, according to police. Bobby Eli was arrested one day after the incident occurred on Friday and has been charged with second-degree aggravated harassment and third-degree…
· Ryan General
NY Public Housing Inspector Sends Racist ‘Ching Chong’ Letter to Vietnamese Tenants
Vietnamese tenants of a public housing apartment in New York were shocked to receive a hateful letter officially coming from the city. An unnamed worker at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development reportedly addressed the letter to “Chi** Ch***,” a racial slur used…
· Carl Samson
Bus Driver, Kind Stranger Attacked After Stopping Assault on Elderly Asians in NYC
A pair of Good Samaritans came to the aid of two elderly Asian pedestrians being attacked in broad daylight in Brooklyn, New York earlier this week. The incident, which quickly became physical, occurred outside a supermarket on 25th Avenue and 86th Street around noon on Tuesday.
· Carl Samson
New York Deploys Undercover Asian Agents to Combat Hate Crimes
In an effort to end the violence against Asian Americans, New York City will deploy officers to the streets in plain clothes starting this weekend. The plan, part of a two-pronged approach announced on Thursday, will use an all-Asian team of police officers, according to New…
· Ryan General
Over 1,100 Anti-Asian Attacks Reported in Canada During COVID-19 Pandemic
Over a thousand Asian Canadians were spit on, coughed at, verbally and physically assaulted, among other abuses, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) revealed. The CCNC Toronto chapter found 1,150 incidents of anti-Asian…
· Ryan General
Asian American Army Veteran Beaten in Clear Hate Crime in SF
An Asian American Army veteran experienced verbal and physical abuse while at a bus stop in San Francisco. Ron Tuason, 56, claims he was assaulted for wearing a veteran’s hat near Ocean and Plymouth Avenues on March 13 at around 4 p.m., according to KPIX.
· Bryan Ke
‘I came here to f**k up Asians’: Man Arrested for Attacking Asian Woman, 54, with a Metal Pipe in NYC
The NYPD has arrested a 38-year-old man for hitting a 54-year-old Asian woman in the face with a metal pipe in the latest anti-Asian attack in New York City on Sunday. Ming Liang was walking from the grocery store on Grand Street near Ludlow at around 4:45 p.m. when the suspect,…
· Carl Samson
Asian Mom Punched in Front of Child on Way to Anti-Asian Violence Protest in NYC
A man who punched an Asian woman headed to a protest against anti-Asian violence in New York City has been arrested. The incident occurred while the woman was walking with her daughter near 51 Astor Place in Lower Manhattan at 11:37 a.m. on Sunday.
· Bryan Ke
Family of Woman Fatally Shot in Compton Demands Hate Crime Investigation
The family of a 28-year-old woman killed in a fatal shooting in Compton, California, is asking the police to look at the incident as a potential hate crime. What happened: Sia Marie Xiong, 28, was shot before 6 a.m. on March 20 on East Kay Street, the Los Angeles County…
· Isa Peralta
SF School Board Member Said Asian Americans ‘Use White Supremacist Thinking’ to ‘Get Ahead’ in Old Tweets
Derogatory tweets by the vice president of San Francisco’s Board of Education have recently resurfaced, prompting several San Franciscans to push for her resignation. Resurfaced Tweets: In a series of tweets from 2016, Vice President Alison Collins shared anti-Asian American…
· Bryan Ke
Disabled Man’s Car Set on Fire in Bay Area, Family Says It’s ‘Racially Motivated’
The Redwood City Police Department is now investigating an incident involving a disabled Asian man after someone torched his car over the weekend. The man found his torched car in an alley behind 3752 Rolison Road at around 11 a.m. on Saturday, according to ABC7’s Dion Lim. His…
· Ryan General
Second Fundraiser Set Up for Elderly Asian Violently Attacked by Man in San Francisco
San Francisco police have arrested a man in connection to a violent assault along Market Street and 7th Street on Wednesday morning against two elderly Asian people: an 83-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman who fought back. Steven Jenkins, 39, was booked on two counts of…
· Bee Vang
How ‘Wokism’ Got Asian Americans So Wrong, and Why We Can’t Ignore That
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author. It began with the tedious contrivances of blaming “kung flu” or “Chinese virus.” Surely, “woke” critics thought, this was what accelerated the spike in COVID-19 anti-Asian hate incidents. Then…
· Bryan Ke
Topps Sparks Outrage With Sticker Showing BTS Beaten Amid Anti-Asian Attacks
Topps, an American trading card manufacturing company, has apologized for a newly released product that depicts a Grammy Awards trophy ready to injure the members of K-pop group BTS. The item is one of the stickers from Topps’ “Shammy Awards” sticker collection, which was…