"I know when we saw that video, it was heartbreaking, it's still heartbreaking, I still feel pain and hurt," said San Francisco Mayor London Breed."At the very core, it's about acknowledging hate crimes happen to Asian Americans," said activist Justin Zhu.
This week, San Francisco Police reported anti-Asian hate crimes have spiked more than 500% since the pandemic began, victims continue to come forward.Hundreds of people are planning to gather in six U.S. cities Sunday to commemorate the death of 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee in San Francisco and call for an end to anti-Asian hate and violence.
"When you add hundreds and thousands of incidents it's not a coincidence, it's racism," said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu.Others say words are not enough, real action is needed to stop senseless attacks. "We must hold accountable crimes against our AAPI community, and we must demand those who have the power to hold people accountable, actually do," said San Francisco Catherine Stefani.
There are also hundreds and thousands of white, black, and Latino crime victims every day. That logic makes no sense DavidChiu
Chiu has no idea. Half of Asian hate crimes were a mentally ill guy let out by a judge from the Public Defenders Office (see Kenny Choi below). The rest were black criminals from SF, Oakland and Richmond. Is mental illness and crime a racist conspiracy?
look into wildcare in san rafael. all this virtue signaling yet the most racist place i’ve been in california. racism antiasian antiblack
Asians have enough men and trained martial artist to protect their elders this sould not continue on the tax payers dime unless every elder is protected in S.F.
recallboudin
Maybe if you prosecuted all crime, you would be sending the right message.
Right ,now punish and teach them lesson
Keep the lawsuit for chesaboudin