Alarming surge’ in anti-Asian violence across US terrifies community members

basso · Dec 30, 2021

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this is when politics messes up
Stop bailing out criminals
What part of ‘criminals’ do people not get ?
This is like having a pet alligator and he eats your neighbors dog
A violent criminal is a violent criminal

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...ail-6-days-before-chinatown-shooting-2504233/

Nonprofit bailed suspect out of jail 6 days before Chinatown shooting

A felon accused of shooting a Chinatown waiter multiple times was released from jail six days before the crime with the help of a national nonprofit seeking to end the cash bail system, records show.
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progressive politics ruined San Francisko, and now they tryna ruin Vegas too.

tinman · Jan 18, 2022

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As an increase in anti-Asian bigotry continues to sweep across America, politicians and community advocates have called for action to combat a disturbing surge in physical attacks and harassment.

During a press conference last week, top congressional Democrats condemned the increase and said much of the blame lies in former president Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric about Chinese people and the coronavirus.

The Asian American community has reached a “crisis-point”, said Judy Chu, a California congresswoman who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Community members were “terrified by the alarming surge in anti-Asian American bigotry,” she said.

“These attacks are no accident,” Chu said. “It’s clear January 6 was not the only violence Donald Trump incited.”

Chu’s words come amid a wave of violent incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islanders across the US. Although it is difficult to prove that these violent incidents are purely motivated by bigotry, activists and community leaders, as well as victims and their families, think that race has played a major role.

Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thailand native who lived in San Francisco, died several weeks ago after being shoved to the ground. The victim’s family reportedly said to KTVU that he was attacked because of his race and age.

“What else could have motivated him?” Ratanapakdee’s son-in-law said of the attacker.

Across the bay, a man shoved three people in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood. The victims – a 91-year-old man, a 60-year-old man, and a 55-year-old woman – were injured, according to CNN.

In the Flushing neighborhood of New York City, a 52-year-old Chinese-American woman was attacked outside a bakery on Tuesday. This woman asked a man in front of her about the line, and he then became “extremely angry, yelled and cursed at her, used his hand to touch her face and came face-to-face-with her”, prosecutors said in court papers.

The victim’s daughter said on Facebook that he shoved her “with such force that she hit her head on the concrete and passed out on the floor”, according to NBC New York.

The same day, two Asian seniors were assaulted on the subway in separate incidents, the network said.

The man accused of involvement in the bakery incident was charged with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment. He was not charged with a hate crime, records indicate.

Former president Bill Clinton also spoke out against increasing reports of anti-Asian attacks. “I’m deeply concerned about the rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans,” he said on Twitter. “We must speak out against discrimination of all kinds, reject the ignorant rhetoric driving this wave of violence, and reach out to support our neighbors.”

Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition documenting anti-Asian bigotry during the pandemic, said the organization had received more than 2,808 “firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate” from 19 March to 31 December. These reports are from 47 states and the District of Columbia.

According to Stop AAPI Hate’s data, physical assaults comprised 8.7% of these incidents, while coughing/spitting totaled 6.4%. Verbal harassment constituted 70.9% of these incidents; and shunning or avoidance were 21.4%.

Figures from law enforcement agencies are similarly disturbing. The New York police department’s records also show a troubling increase in anti-Asian hate crimes. In 2020, there were reports of 29 total victims – with 24 listed as having “coronavirus motivation”. In 2019, there were just reports of three anti-Asian hate crimes recorded by the department.

From 1 January to 17 February, the most recent NYPD data provided, authorities reported that there were two victims of anti-Asian hate crimes. In this same period of 2020, there were no reported victims of anti-Asian crimes.

“No area really is immune. It’s urban, rural,” said Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, to the Guardian. “Even when the country was largely sheltering in place, people were experiencing incidents at grocery stores, at pharmacies, at big-box retailers.”

“Those were the only places we were able to go … they had to worry that somebody might verbally attack them or physically assault them or refuse them service as they were just trying to sort of eke out an existence,” said Kulkarni.

“It has our seniors and the women more concerned. It seems like they’re picking on seniors,” said Karlin Chan, a community advocate in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “These people are opportunists. They’re not going to pick on a fit young man. It does have the community worried.”

Chan said that the community in Manhattan’s Chinatown was lucky to have experienced fewer incidents than Flushing had. However, residents were rattled by several incidents last winter, before the pandemic hit New York City.

“Right before lockdown, Chinatown was very quiet,” Chan said. “These opportunists, or some racists, would harass people. On the Lower East Side, streets were very quiet.”

In response, Chan formed a block watch that walks around the neighborhood several times a week, “just to assure neighbors and residents that there are people from the community, and outside the community, who are concerned”.

Chu and other lawmakers attending the press conference, including the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, urged Congress to pass legislation that would provide federal grants to state and city governments to improve reporting of bias crimes and provide better support for victims.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee said everyone must work to “put a stop to hate and violence”.

“These tragic attacks are happening in communities across the country,” Lee said. “These attacks are just simply unacceptable.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/20/anti-asian-violence-us-bigotry
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Look another DERANGED HOMELESS guy killing someone

tinman · Jan 26, 2022

Reeko said: ↑

As an increase in anti-Asian bigotry continues to sweep across America, politicians and community advocates have called for action to combat a disturbing surge in physical attacks and harassment.

During a press conference last week, top congressional Democrats condemned the increase and said much of the blame lies in former president Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric about Chinese people and the coronavirus.

The Asian American community has reached a “crisis-point”, said Judy Chu, a California congresswoman who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Community members were “terrified by the alarming surge in anti-Asian American bigotry,” she said.

“These attacks are no accident,” Chu said. “It’s clear January 6 was not the only violence Donald Trump incited.”

Chu’s words come amid a wave of violent incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islanders across the US. Although it is difficult to prove that these violent incidents are purely motivated by bigotry, activists and community leaders, as well as victims and their families, think that race has played a major role.

Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thailand native who lived in San Francisco, died several weeks ago after being shoved to the ground. The victim’s family reportedly said to KTVU that he was attacked because of his race and age.

“What else could have motivated him?” Ratanapakdee’s son-in-law said of the attacker.

Across the bay, a man shoved three people in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood. The victims – a 91-year-old man, a 60-year-old man, and a 55-year-old woman – were injured, according to CNN.

In the Flushing neighborhood of New York City, a 52-year-old Chinese-American woman was attacked outside a bakery on Tuesday. This woman asked a man in front of her about the line, and he then became “extremely angry, yelled and cursed at her, used his hand to touch her face and came face-to-face-with her”, prosecutors said in court papers.

The victim’s daughter said on Facebook that he shoved her “with such force that she hit her head on the concrete and passed out on the floor”, according to NBC New York.

The same day, two Asian seniors were assaulted on the subway in separate incidents, the network said.

The man accused of involvement in the bakery incident was charged with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment. He was not charged with a hate crime, records indicate.

Former president Bill Clinton also spoke out against increasing reports of anti-Asian attacks. “I’m deeply concerned about the rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans,” he said on Twitter. “We must speak out against discrimination of all kinds, reject the ignorant rhetoric driving this wave of violence, and reach out to support our neighbors.”

Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition documenting anti-Asian bigotry during the pandemic, said the organization had received more than 2,808 “firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate” from 19 March to 31 December. These reports are from 47 states and the District of Columbia.

According to Stop AAPI Hate’s data, physical assaults comprised 8.7% of these incidents, while coughing/spitting totaled 6.4%. Verbal harassment constituted 70.9% of these incidents; and shunning or avoidance were 21.4%.

Figures from law enforcement agencies are similarly disturbing. The New York police department’s records also show a troubling increase in anti-Asian hate crimes. In 2020, there were reports of 29 total victims – with 24 listed as having “coronavirus motivation”. In 2019, there were just reports of three anti-Asian hate crimes recorded by the department.

From 1 January to 17 February, the most recent NYPD data provided, authorities reported that there were two victims of anti-Asian hate crimes. In this same period of 2020, there were no reported victims of anti-Asian crimes.

“No area really is immune. It’s urban, rural,” said Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, to the Guardian. “Even when the country was largely sheltering in place, people were experiencing incidents at grocery stores, at pharmacies, at big-box retailers.”

“Those were the only places we were able to go … they had to worry that somebody might verbally attack them or physically assault them or refuse them service as they were just trying to sort of eke out an existence,” said Kulkarni.

“It has our seniors and the women more concerned. It seems like they’re picking on seniors,” said Karlin Chan, a community advocate in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “These people are opportunists. They’re not going to pick on a fit young man. It does have the community worried.”

Chan said that the community in Manhattan’s Chinatown was lucky to have experienced fewer incidents than Flushing had. However, residents were rattled by several incidents last winter, before the pandemic hit New York City.

“Right before lockdown, Chinatown was very quiet,” Chan said. “These opportunists, or some racists, would harass people. On the Lower East Side, streets were very quiet.”

In response, Chan formed a block watch that walks around the neighborhood several times a week, “just to assure neighbors and residents that there are people from the community, and outside the community, who are concerned”.

Chu and other lawmakers attending the press conference, including the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, urged Congress to pass legislation that would provide federal grants to state and city governments to improve reporting of bias crimes and provide better support for victims.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee said everyone must work to “put a stop to hate and violence”.

“These tragic attacks are happening in communities across the country,” Lee said. “These attacks are just simply unacceptable.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/20/anti-asian-violence-us-bigotry
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What ? Asian community in San Francisco sue the super woke whitey DA?
How is this happening ? Super woke Whitey is suppose to help minorities! No woke Gringo hero !?
say it ain’t so!
Letting criminals who commit hate crimes to Asians as a misdemeanor? Why wokey woke woke ??

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rocketsjudoka · Jan 26, 2022

I've said this before that many of these attacks are by people who are mentally ill and how we deal with mental illness is atrocious in this country. At the same time part of mental illness is being very susceptible to messages that frequently get repeated in media and the rest of society. That we still continue to see messages blaming "Chinese" for COVID when many can't tell the difference between someone actually from China or from Malaysia.

I also agree there are many cities that need to do more. Again messaging is an issue and this is again a reminder of how poor of a message "Defund the Police" was when it was being thrown around without good planning or clear consensus of what that meant.

Amiga · Jan 26, 2022

rocketsjudoka said: ↑

I've said this before that many of these attacks are by people who are mentally ill and how we deal with mental illness is atrocious in this country. At the same time part of mental illness is being very susceptible to messages that frequently get repeated in media and the rest of society. That we still continue to see messages blaming "Chinese" for COVID when many can't tell the difference between someone actually from China or from Malaysia.

I also agree there are many cities that need to do more. Again messaging is an issue and this is again a reminder of how poor of a message "Defund the Police" was when it was being thrown around without good planning or clear consensus of what that meant.
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The uptick in crimes and hates toward Asian isn't because of the mentally ill - I doubt the # of mentally ill has changed that much since 2019 - but by folks (mentally ill included, extremists, and racists) that were influenced toward hate and violence by the Chinese covid messaging from Trump and other leadership.

tinman · Jan 26, 2022

rocketsjudoka said: ↑

I've said this before that many of these attacks are by people who are mentally ill and how we deal with mental illness is atrocious in this country. At the same time part of mental illness is being very susceptible to messages that frequently get repeated in media and the rest of society. That we still continue to see messages blaming "Chinese" for COVID when many can't tell the difference between someone actually from China or from Malaysia.

I also agree there are many cities that need to do more. Again messaging is an issue and this is again a reminder of how poor of a message "Defund the Police" was when it was being thrown around without good planning or clear consensus of what that meant.
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So what do you think of this?
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loc...uit-against-san-francisco-das-office/2788636/
SF Resident Sues DA's Office Following Mishandling of AAPI Hate Crime

"I was suddenly and violently attacked by the adult male and his adolescent son brutally attacked me with a long baseball bat," Lê said.

Both attackers were arrested and charged with several felonies including elder abuse and terrorist attacks. However, over the following months the DA's Office pleaded the case down to a misdemeanor assault without Lê's knowledge.

"Because of the way my case has been handled by the San Francisco District Attorney's office, justice has not been served," he said at a press conference held Tuesday.

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Mr. Anh Lê, the plaintiff of the lawsuit, is not asking for money. Rather, he simply wants the courts to make San Francisco District Attorney's Office to do it's job by taking the rights of victims into account when they're considering plea deals.

tinman · Jan 26, 2022

txtony said: ↑

The uptick in crimes and hates toward Asian isn't because of the mentally ill - I doubt the # of mentally ill has changed that much since 2019 - but by folks (mentally ill included, extremists, and racists) that were influenced toward hate and violence by the Chinese covid messaging from Trump and other leadership.
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i get it, you and the other side watch Fox and CNN and legacy media
but fail to see the reality

there's bad race relations, homelessness, mental illness, and crime
and that has nothing to do with politics
it's just modern society that doesn't value education and humanity as a whole

menace 2 society came out in the 90s brah

basso · Jan 26, 2022

txtony said: ↑

The uptick in crimes and hates toward Asian isn't because of the mentally ill - I doubt the # of mentally ill has changed that much since 2019 - but by folks (mentally ill included, extremists, and racists) that were influenced toward hate and violence by the Chinese covid messaging from Trump and other leadership.
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do you have data that supports your assertion that Trump is somehow responsible for crimes against Asians in (checks notes) San Francisco?

Amiga · Jan 26, 2022

basso said: ↑

do you have data that supports your assertion that Trump is somehow responsible for crimes against Asians in (checks notes) San Francisco?
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Yea, it’s in a laptop at a repair shop

-Kung Flu

tinman · Jan 26, 2022

basso said: ↑

do you have data that supports your assertion that Trump is somehow responsible for crimes against Asians in (checks notes) San Francisco?
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The same amount that will show up at candlestick park for the 49ers

oh wait there’s no such thing as candlestick park !

SamFisher · Jan 26, 2022

tinman · Feb 3, 2022

Invisible Fan · Feb 3, 2022

txtony said: ↑

The uptick in crimes and hates toward Asian isn't because of the mentally ill - I doubt the # of mentally ill has changed that much since 2019 - but by folks (mentally ill included, extremists, and racists) that were influenced toward hate and violence by the Chinese covid messaging from Trump and other leadership.
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I don't think the homeless are Trump voters (or voters in general). There's an underbelly of racism, xenophobia and crackpot ideas that Trump didn't cause. It's more like he was playing with a fire that was already there. You could call him a catalyst, but he's not the root cause.

Homeless actually spread info quickly amongst themselves. No devices, public shunning, and an aversion to social institutions makes them a community in of itself.

I suspect that's why the initial violence was cowardly and targeted towards the elderly...something you can't explain with Trump... Word got around.

tinman · Feb 3, 2022

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so the DA in San Francisco lets out the criminal who attacked an elderly man and 27 attacks !!!
I’m sure that’s social justice at it’s best!

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2022/01/26/asian-american-attacks-suspect-out-of-custody/?amp
Questions Raised After Suspect In Dozens Of Hate Crimes On SF Asian Businesses Found To Be Out Of Custody

Authorities said Barreto is the man responsible for a string of 27 separate attacks, many in the Ingleside neighborhood, Chinatown, and in the Ocean Avenue corridor, that haunted business owners between April and August of last year.

“His target was the Asian community. So what would have happened if any of those victims were inside the stores and tried to defend themselves? This could have easily escalated into something much worse,” said former San Francisco Mayoral candidate Richie Greeberg.

tinman · Feb 3, 2022

basso said: ↑

progressive politics ruined San Francisko, and now they tryna ruin Vegas too.
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Vegas won’t take that , they aren’t pansies
City was born from the mob
Spring mountain road got gangsters

Gioan Baotixita · Feb 3, 2022

tinman said: ↑

i get it, you and the other side watch Fox and CNN and legacy media
but fail to see the reality

there's bad race relations, homelessness, mental illness, and crime
and that has nothing to do with politics
it's just modern society that doesn't value education and humanity as a whole

menace 2 society came out in the 90s brah

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Sorry tinman. I have to agree with txtony here. These perps are extremists, racists and no doubt Trump supporters.

PeppermintCandy · Feb 3, 2022

SamFisher said: ↑

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It is a 567% increase but given the population size of San Francisco, the rise in the numbers doesn't seem too alarming to me. Especially, take out that one guy responsible for 30 attacks, the number is an increase from 9 anti-Asian attacks in 2020 to 30 attacks in 2021.

Of course, I'm not trying to discount these attacks or say anti-Asian sentiments have not increased due to the pandemic. And as the SF mayor is quoted as saying in the article, there may also be a substantial number of unreported crimes.

tinman · Feb 3, 2022

Gioan Baotixita said: ↑

Sorry tinman. I have to agree with txtony here. These perps are extremists, racists and no doubt Trump supporters.
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What the hell is going on in San Francisco?
@pgabriel

They let a dude who was convicted of 27 attacks on Asians go free like he didn't do anything wrong

and then the Police Chief just dumps the DA cause he's WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loc...g-evidence-in-sfpd-use-of-force-case/2800319/
DA Responds to Accusations of Withholding Evidence in SFPD Use-of-Force Case

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-police-chief-will-no-longer-cooperate-with-16827409.php
S.F. police will no longer cooperate with DA Boudin over police shooting investigations

tinman · Feb 4, 2022

PeppermintCandy said: ↑

It is a 567% increase but given the population size of San Francisco, the rise in the numbers doesn't seem too alarming to me. Especially, take out that one guy responsible for 30 attacks, the number is an increase from 9 anti-Asian attacks in 2020 to 30 attacks in 2021.

Of course, I'm not trying to discount these attacks or say anti-Asian sentiments have not increased due to the pandemic. And as the SF mayor is quoted as saying in the article, there may also be a substantial number of unreported crimes.
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Note: This youtuber is an Indian guy

brings up this topic

fchowd0311 · Feb 4, 2022

tinman said: ↑

Note: This youtuber is an Indian guy

brings up this topic

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It speaks volumes that the people attracted to the video by reading the comment section are literally spewing KKK rhetoric. I literally almost teared up reading some of those comments. They are horrible. I know you come here for your supposed comedy but this isn't funny dude.

I don't know what him being Indian has to do with it?

A lot of the new migrants(Easy and South Asians) who got here with money and skilled labor education are probably the most racist towards Black Americans even more so than most white conservative voters and a lot of it has to do with them not knowing the racial history of this country and make many assumptions.

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