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· Ryan General
Deported Cambodian refugee returns home to Southern California after 11 years
In 2011, ICE deported Cambodian refugee Sophea Phea to a country her family fled from in the 1970s to escape genocide. While in Cambodia, Phea became a teacher and started advocating for other Southeast Asian deportees in a bid to help them return home to the U.S. After years of…
· Michelle De Pacina
California sheriff’s deputy charged with murdering Vietnamese married couple in their home
Devin Williams Jr., a 24-year-old deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, allegedly fatally shot a Vietnamese married couple in their home on Colebrook Lane, California, on Sept. 7. Dublin Police Services found Maria Tran, a 42-year-old nurse, and Benison Tran, a…
· Bryan Ke
California AG to look into Navy veteran’s death while in police custody after DA clears officers
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office will review the details surrounding the death of Angelo Quinto, a 30-year-old Navy veteran who died in police custody inside his family’s home on Dec. 30, 2020. The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Diana Becton said last week…
· Carl Samson
Senior Asian couple in California gets $136,000 settlement for alleged illegal home raids
Chen-Chen Hwang, 67, and her husband Jiun-Tsong Wu, 75, sued deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in March for allegedly searching their homes without a warrant on Aug. 5, 2021. The deputies allegedly raided the couple’s two homes in Lake Elsinore, breaking…
· Carl Samson
Photos of suspect vehicles in shooting of Asian toddler in California released
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has identified two vehicles that may have been involved in the fatal shooting of 23-month-old Jasper Wu in Oakland, California, last year. Wu was killed by a stray bullet as he was returning home to Fremont with his mother, aunt and two…
· Carl Samson
California lawmakers reject bill that aims to stop prison-to-ICE transfers
VISION Act (AB 937) fell three votes short of the 21 it needed to pass in the California Senate on Wednesday. Introduced by Assemblymember Wendy Carillo last year, the legislation aims to bar state prisons from transferring inmates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
· Ryan General
Indian American charged with hate crime over racist attack on fellow Indian in California Taco Bell
On Aug. 21, Krishnan Jayaraman recorded 37-year-old Singh Tejinder subjecting him to a racial tirade at a Taco Bell at Grimmer Boulevard in Fremont, California. Tejinder was caught on film spitting on the victim and calling him a “dirty Hindu” and a “disgusting dog.” The Fremont…
· Michelle De Pacina
Anti-Asian hate bills unanimously passed in California now await Gov. Newsom’s approval
Stop AAPI Hate’s No Place for Hate Bills — AB 2448 and SB 1161 — have passed the California’s State Legislature on Tuesday. The Public Rider Transportation Safety bill (SB 1161) promotes safe ridership by gathering data on street harassment of women and other vulnerable…
· Michelle De Pacina
3 men injured in Northern California Sikh temple shooting
Three Sikh men have been hospitalized following a shooting at a Sikh temple in Stockton, California, on Aug. 27. Two male suspects, who are also believed to be Sikh, remain at large. Three people have been hospitalized following a shooting at a Sikh temple in Northern…
· Carl Samson
Asian woman, 71, hit in the head in violent robbery outside California restaurant
Enelia Perez, 71, fell victim to a violent robbery outside a Jollibee in Vallejo, California, on Sunday night. Perez was reportedly exiting the fast food restaurant when a man tried to grab her purse, resulting in a struggle. He then hit Perez in the back of her head with a…
· Michelle De Pacina
‘This ain’t India’: Man recorded verbally attacking, spitting on Indian man in a California Taco Bell
Krishnan Jayaraman was at a Fremont, California, Taco Bell on Grimmer Boulevard when another customer began to verbally attack him on Aug. 21. In an 8-minute video recorded by Jayaraman, the man can be heard spewing anti-Hindu speech. Jayaraman believes that the attacker is also…
· Carl Samson
Mysterious billboards in SF and LA warn Californians: ‘Don’t move to Texas’
A mysterious billboard spotted in Los Angeles and San Francisco this week referenced the Uvalde school shooting to warn Californians against moving to Texas. Texas has seen a huge influx of Californian migrants in recent years due to its lower cost of living and greater business…
· Michelle De Pacina
Suspect in California Taiwanese church mass shooting pleads not guilty
David Wenwei Chou, the 68-year-old Las Vegas man accused of firing multiple rounds at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in California in May, has pleaded not guilty. He was previously charged with one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder with hate crime…
· Bryan Ke
Police identify Asian man killed in California triple shooting
Stockton police identified the man who was shot and killed during a triple shooting incident in Stockton, California, on Friday as Terry Toeurn, a 36-year-old food truck worker. Police responded to the shooting incident in the 4900 block of Greensboro Way at around 10:36 p.m. on…
· Ryan General
Cambodian refugee who came to US as 1-year-old is deported after no pardon from California Gov. Newsom
On Tuesday, Phoeun You, a former child refugee from Cambodia, was deported to a country he is barely familiar with after failing to get a pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom. You, who joined a gang in his teens, shot and killed a 17-year-old at age 20 while retaliating…
· Ryan General
California films that want tax credit must meet new diversity requirement
California lawmakers approved an amendment to SB 485 on Wednesday to include a diversity requirement to the state’s $330 million tax incentive for film and TV production. The updated provision, currently awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, requires tax credit beneficiaries…
· Bryan Ke
Former Democratic California representative TJ Cox faces decades in prison if convicted of fraud charges
The FBI arrested Terrance John "TJ" Cox, a former congressional representative of California, at around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday on more than a dozen fraud-related charges. Cox, 59, is facing 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution…
· Michelle De Pacina
Irvine police arrest California dermatologist accused of poisoning husband
Irvine police arrested a Southern Californian dermatologist on suspicion of poisoning her husband. Yue Emily Yu, 45, was arrested on Thursday after her husband of 10 years submitted video evidence to authorities that allegedly supports his claim that his wife had been poisoning…
· Michelle De Pacina
Arcadia nurse accused of shooting into neighbor’s apartment over piano noise in California
Kathryn Pugh, a 39-year-old registered nurse, was arrested for allegedly firing several gunshots into the apartment of her neighbor, Pin Hsin Lin, over piano noise in Arcadia, California, on Aug. 1. Police said they found Pugh intoxicated and in possession of two legally…
· Michelle De Pacina
California’s Siskiyou County accused of discrimination against Asian Americans in new class action lawsuit
A federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Asian Americans Advancing Justice in San Francisco accuses California’s Siskiyou County and Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue of racial harassment against the Asian American community. Asian American residents in…