In the video, a man dashes towards Monthanus Ratanapakdee’s father, 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee, and violently shoves the elder Thai-American down onto the pavement of a San Francisco street.
Tran pleads guilty to hate crimes
A Vietnamese American has pleaded guilty to hate crimes and firearms offenses after shooting and wounding two Jewish men as they left religious services in the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles last year.
Man pleads guilty to disturbing hate crimes
A California man pleaded guilty to threatening mass shootings at synagogues and threatening to “exterminate” Jewish people and Asian Americans, the Justice Department announced Monday.
C-ID Public Safety Survey highlights safety anxieties, crime surge in CID
In the face of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic’s third year, the Chinatown-International District (CID) in Seattle grapples with profound challenges to public safety, a surge in homelessness, and an alarming increase in anti-Asian hate crimes.
1 in 3 US Asians and Pacific Islanders faced racial abuse this year, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows
Despite ongoing advocacy and legislation to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, about a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year, including being on the receiving end of verbal harassment, slurs, physical threats or cyberbullying.
Robberies hit Asian Americans in Beacon Hill and other areas
An Asian man walks up to his door. Behind him, run up two men all in black. One of them brandishes a pistol.
Rally mourns Korean mother and baby, fatally shot in car
Over 100 people gathered on Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street on Sunday morning, the site of a fatal shooting of Eina Kwon and her unborn baby, while she sat in her car.
Man indicted on 98 charges including hate crimes for 2022 shooting at Taiwanese church in California
A man accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at a Southern California church luncheon last year has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes in connection with the attack, which investigators said was motivated by political hatred of Taiwan.
EDITORIAL: Chinese Americans fear hate crimes, discrimination in proposed FL, TX legislation
The newly formed Florida Asian American Justice Alliance (FAAJA) organized statewide rallies in six cities across Florida last weekend, to protest Senate Bill 264 and House Bill 1355.
Inslee signs hate crimes protection bill into law
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill on April 6 that will strengthen the prosecution of hate crimes and require rehab programs for offenders.