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Bay Area
San Francisco rapper apologizes for diss track against mayor after alleged threat
Rapper and restaurateur Chino Yang released an apology on social media just a week after his controversial diss track criticized Mayor Londo...
Michelle De Pacina
Music
San Francico rapper releases diss track against mayor over anti-Asian crime
Chinese American rapper Chino Yang criticizes San Francisco’s city officials through his latest English-language track, “San Fra...
Ryan General
Crime
Hate crime charge dropped for man accused of attacking Virginia sushi restaurant owner after skipping $70 bill
Jordon Bevan fled from Bonsai Grill in Crystal City, Virginia, without paying for $70 worth of sushi rolls on May 4, 2021. While being cha...
Carl Samson
Canada
Vancouver police identify man accused of striking Asian student with a pole
Mohammed Majidpour, 35, is now wanted Canada-wide for allegedly attacking a 19-year-old Asian woman in downtown Vancouver on Sept. 27. The...
Student hit in the head with pole in apparent anti-Asian attack in Vancouver
A 19-year-old Asian student was hit on the back of her head with a pole by a man on Tuesday in what police are investigating as a racially ...
Crime-watch app Citizen offers free 1-year premium access to Bay Area’s AAPI community
New York-based app developer sp0n, Inc. is giving 20,000 Asian American and Pacific Islander residents from the Bay Area free premium acces...
Bryan Ke
Fact check: US did not ‘bury’ data on anti-Asian hate crimes
A recent tweet claiming that the U.S. government has been “burying” the anti-Asian hate crisis is false. The allegation: In a recent tweet, ...
Editorial Staff
Denver removes anti-Chinese plaque 142 years after anti-Chinese riot that destroyed its Chinatown
Due to historical inaccuracies, Denver removed a plaque titled “Chinese Riot of 1880” from a building in Lower Downtown on Monday. The pla...
Assault on 51-year-old woman in New York sparks PH consulate call for Filipinos to report hate crimes
Elmer G. Cato, the Philippine Consul General in New York, called on Filipinos to immediately report hate crimes following an assault on a 5...
‘I hate Koreans!’: Harlem man spews anti-Asian remark and punches senior woman, 76, in the head
Tiffany Felder, 52, was arrested and charged with hate crime for attacking a 76-year-old Asian woman in Harlem, New York, on Wednesday. Fe...
Orange County woman who experienced anti-Asian hate at a Halsey concert speaks up
Catt Phan, 26, and her friend were at a Halsey concert in Irvine, California, when another group of concert-goers allegedly dumped a drink ...
Serial offender gets 5 years in prison for brutal assault of Thai model on New York City subway
The serial offender who brutally assaulted a Thai model on a New York City subway station has pleaded guilty. Kevin Douglas, 40, struck a p...
Japanese student says he was also assaulted by Portland man charged for attack on Japanese man, his daughter and Filipino woman
Kaito Nakajima, 21, has accused Dylan J. Kesterson of yelling at him, slapping his face and stealing his hat near a Safeway store in downto...
Florida woman who pepper-sprayed Asian women in NYC indicted on hate crime charges
Madeline Barker, the 47-year-old woman accused of hurling xenophobic comments and pepper-spraying a group of four Asian women in Chelsea la...
Man accused of attacking Filipino American family at Hollywood drive-thru pleads not guilty
Nicholas Weber, the 31-year-old man accused of hurling racial slurs and attacking a Filipino American family at a McDonald’s drive-thru in ...
Suspect in murder of elderly Asian man in LA had mental issues that ‘came out of nowhere’, uncle says
Keonte Woods, 25, is accused of fatally stabbing 70-year-old Dal Lee in Los Angeles’ South Main Street on May 5. Lee was sitting inside hi...
Police arrest wife of ‘Duck Sauce Killer,’ confiscate 8 firearms and 200 rounds of ammunition
Dorothy Hirsch, the wife of alleged “Duck Sauce Killer” Glenn Hirsch, was arrested on June 3 for weapons possession, records show. Police ...
‘Duck Sauce Killer’ suspect wins some freedom after posting $500,000 bail
Glenn Hirsch, the man from Queens, New York, who was accused of fatally shooting Chinese food delivery worker Zhiwen Yan, was released from...
Filipino family attacked at North Hollywood fast food drive-thru seeks extraction order on assailant
Patricia Roque said her family, who was threatened and physically attacked by Nicholas Weber at a McDonald’s drive-thru in North Hollywood,...
Asian US Navy veteran knocked out in LA Koreatown attack to press charges if assailant is caught
A U.S. Navy veteran was knocked unconscious after being sucker-punched in Los Angeles’ Koreatown on Tuesday afternoon. The 32-year-old vic...
‘NO G**KS’: San Leandro man arrested for vandalizing neighbor’s home with anti-Asian graffiti
Nicholas Swyers, 25, was arrested on Monday for allegedly spray-painting a home in San Leandro, California, with anti-Asian graffiti. The ...
4 arrested, including 15-year-old, for brutal attack on Chinese PhD student near UW-Madison
Four male suspects, including a 15-year-old, were arrested in connection to an assault that left a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral...
News
Hundreds of Asian Americans line up for pepper spray in New York City after latest anti-Asian attack
In a line that wrapped past the block, hundreds of New Yorkers waited anxiously to get their hands on canisters of pepper spray last weekend...
Jane Nam
Albuquerque police investigate string of robberies that targeted Asian-owned businesses after 2 women dead
The Albuquerque Police Department found a woman dead inside Canna Spa near Coors and Los Volcanes NW in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after resp...
Biden press secretary attributes anti-Asian hate crime spike to ‘hateful rhetoric’ about COVID-19 origins
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed “hateful rhetoric” about COVID-19’s origins for the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. A reporte...
Entertainment
‘Ouch so much backlash’: Battle rapper doubles down after line alluding to anti-Asian crime stirs anger
Rapper Pristavia Duvert sparked controversy online after participating in a rap battle and alluding to crimes perpetrated against Asians. ...
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