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Crime
‘My dignity was stripped away’: Woman attacked by 2 separate suspects in California train
A 53-year-old Asian woman in California is now living in fear after falling victim to what she believes were attacks against her race by two...
Carl Samson
Virginia man charged for attacking woman, 2 congressional staffers with baseball bat
Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, a 49-year-old man from Fairfax, Virginia, was arrested and charged for attacking a woman and two congressional staffers ...
Michelle De Pacina
State charges dropped against woman who stabbed Asian teen in the head on Indiana bus
The state of Indiana has dismissed some of the charges against the woman accused of stabbing an Asian student in the head in Bloomington, In...
Bryan Ke
Man wanted for spray-painting anti-Asian message on NYC liquor store
New York City police are searching for a man accused of vandalizing a liquor store with anti-Asian graffiti. The incident reportedly occurre...
Woman charged with hate crime for stabbing Asian teen in the head on Indiana bus
The woman who stabbed an 18-year-old Asian American Indiana University student in the head with a pocketknife in January has been indicted a...
Hate crime charges dropped against man who attacked Filipino family in Hollywood
A California judge has dropped hate crime charges against a man accused of attacking a Filipino American family in North Hollywood last year...
Canada
Man accused of attempting to run over worshippers in Canada anti-Muslim attack
A man has been charged after allegedly attempting to run over at least one worshiper after yelling threats and religious slurs at a mosque n...
Arrest made in brazen attack that seriously injured photojournalist and his wife in California
A man has been arrested in connection to a brazen robbery attempt that left a Filipino American photojournalist and his wife seriously injur...
NYC man sentenced to 22 years for anti-Asian killing of Yao Pan Ma
The man who attacked and killed 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma two years ago has been sentenced to 22 years in prison, Manhattan District Attorney A...
Brutal group attack on Sikh student in Canada denounced as ‘absolutely horrendous’
A Canadian city councilor has spoken up after a Sikh international student was brutally beaten by a group of people on his way home in what ...
Queens duo charged with hate crimes for punching, kicking Asian mom and son in their heads
Two people have been arrested in connection with a suspected anti-Asian attack in Queens, New York. The two alleged suspects, Natalie Plaza,...
2 Native Hawaiians sentenced to prison for hate-crime beating of white homeowner
Two Native Hawaiian men who were found guilty of a hate crime for attacking a white homeowner in Maui has been sentenced in federal court. O...
Duo wanted for assaulting, yelling racial slurs at Asian woman in Massachusetts
Massachusetts transit police are searching for two individuals accused of a racially motivated attack on an Asian woman in the city of Somer...
Massachusetts driver charged with hate crime for ramming Asian man into ditch, yelling ‘Go back to China’
A Massachusetts motorist accused of hitting an Asian man, dragging him for 200 yards and ramming him into a ditch while making anti-Chinese ...
Ex-NYPD hate crimes chief sues Mayor Adams for ‘destroying’ her reputation over alleged mishandling
The former head of the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force filed a suit against Mayor Eric Adams and the city on Tuesday, ac...
Man accused in SF brick and metal grate attack on 3 Asian Americans charged with hate crimes
A man is facing multiple charges with hate crime enhancements after allegedly attacking three Asian Americans while making racist comments i...
San Francisco launches new response protocol to hate incidents
San Francisco officials recently announced a new response protocol to hate incidents in the city, making it easier for victims to find much-...
Homeless veteran charged with hate crime for New Year’s Eve anti-Asian attack in NYC
Before you read: Man wanted for shoving Asian woman in unprovoked attack near NYC’s Herald Square ...
NYC man pleads guilty to killing senior can collector because he’s Asian
Before you read: Man arrested for brutally stomping on head of Asian American man, 61, in Manhattan Man who stomped on elderly Chinese man’s...
Man wanted for shoving Asian woman in unprovoked attack near NYC’s Herald Square
New York City police are looking for a man accused of shoving an Asian woman while calling her a “stupid Asian b*tch” near Manhattan’s Heral...
Colorado man charged with hate crimes for anti-Asian, anti-gay tirade at California In-N-Out
Before you read: Self-proclaimed ‘Slave master’ spews anti-Asian, anti-gay hate against TikTokers at California In-N-Out A Colorado man has ...
‘Go back to your country’: California man charged with hate crime for beating up Asian senior
Jesse Fausto Correa, 29, is facing multiple charges — including a hate crime charge — in connection with an attack on an elderly Asian man ...
Woman charged with hate crime for calling man ‘Asian pig’, assaulting him on NYC subway
Dream Commisso, 19, has been charged with a hate crime for her alleged role in the assault of a 42-year-old Asian man on a Manhattan subway...
2 men charged with hate crimes for back-to-back anti-Asian incidents in Washington state
A pair of men have been charged with hate crimes in connection with two separate anti-Asian incidents in Washington state earlier this mont...
NY career criminal sentenced to 17.5 years for punching Asian senior 125 times
Tammel Esco, 42, has received a 17.5-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to brutally attacking a senior Asian woman in Yonkers, New ...
New York now requires those convicted of hate crimes to undergo hate crime prevention training
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced the signing of two new bills, Assembly Bill A1202 and Assembly Bill A5913A, to address the “rising tide ...
2 Hawaiian men found guilty of hate crime for attacking white homeowner
On Nov. 17, a federal jury found Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 32, and Levi Aki, Jr., 33, guilty of a hate crime for attacking Christopher Kunzelman...
Issues & Racism
Manila journalists visiting US to interview hate crime victims become targets of anti-Asian hate
Visiting journalists from Manila purportedly became the target of anti-Asian hate just days after they interviewed Filipino victims of simi...
Cincinnati man charged with hate crime for anti-Asian attack on student
Darrin Johnson, 26, was charged with federal hate crime on Wednesday in connection with an anti-Asian attack against a University of Cincin...
Repeat New York offender who punched elderly Asian woman over 125 times pleads guilty to hate crime
Tammel Esco, 42, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree assault as a hate crime in connection with a brutal attack on an elderly Filipin...
Texas woman sued by Indian American over viral racist meltdown
The incident, which was caught in a now-viral video, occurred in the parking lot of the restaurant Sixty Vines at around 8:15 p.m. on Aug. ...
UC Berkeley assault being investigated as anti-Asian hate crime
An aggravated assault that allegedly took place near the University of California, Berkeley campus on Monday is being investigated as a pos...
News
‘Hate has no place in America’: Biden meets hate crime survivors at White House summit
President Joe Biden met several hate crime survivors and the relatives of mass shooting victims during the United We Stand Summit at the Wh...
NYC man charged with hate crimes for headbutting Asian victim because he’s ‘Chinese’
A man accused of headbutting an Asian man in an unprovoked attack in Queens, New York City, in July has been charged with hate crimes. Rud...
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...
Ryan General
Elderly Filipino woman ‘punched without provocation’ by female attacker in New York City
A 74-year-old Filipino woman was “punched without provocation” by an unidentified woman while walking along Madison Avenue near East 52nd S...