SF News SFPD Reopens Investigation Into Death of 63-Year-Old Asian Woman, Breed Demands Video Be Released The July 2023 death of 63-year-old Yanfang Wu is back in the headlines, and now more politically charged, as Mayor London Breed is demanding that SFPD release the video of the shoving incident that killed Wu.
SF News Oakland Man Who Did Time For Attack On Chinatown Leader Charged With Assault on Elderly SF Woman A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
SF News Vigil Tonight at Portsmouth Square For Bay Area Woman Pushed In Front of New York Subway A candlelight vigil is planned for Tuesday evening in San Francisco's Chinatown to mourn the death of 40-year-old Michelle Go, a native of the East Bay who was killed Saturday when she was pushed in front of an oncoming subway train in New York's Times Square.
SF News Serial Hate-Crime Robber Who Allegedly Targeted Asian Women Charged With Seven Felony Robberies A hate-crime and robbery suspect was arrested last week after he stole a woman's backpack containing her laptop — and laptop locator software helped authorities track him down.
SF News DA's Office Announces Charges Against Man Accused Of Vandalizing, Burglarizing Dozens of Chinese-Owned Businesses A San Francisco man stands accused of vandalizing 20 Chinese-owned businesses in the city, as well as seven others, and he faces burglary charges and hate-crime enhancements as well.
SF News SF Police Arrest Suspect in Attempted Robbery of Elderly Asian Man In May, a 70-year-old Asian man was attacked in Noe Valley, the assailant also trying to steal a watch off the man's wrist. But San Francisco police have now arrested and detained the twentysomething thought to be responsible for the assault.
SF News Asian Public Defender Gets Heat From Family Over Defending Mentally Ill Man Who Assaulted Elderly Woman The Taiwan-born SF public defender assigned to the case of Steven Jenkins — the 39-year-old homeless man accused in the March 17 assault on 75-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie — says he's taken some heat from some family members.
SF News Parolee Out On Bail Mugs Elderly Woman In Japantown, Apprehended After Security Guard Alerts Police There was yet another attack on an elderly Asian person in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the alleged perpetrator is now in jail — but it's also another case of a repeat offender who was out on bail at the time of his latest crime.
SF News Suspect in Stabbing of Two Asian Women in San Francisco Never Made It to Court On Friday, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin asked a judge to hold a man who's connected with the high-profile stabbing Tuesday of two elderly Asian women near Fourth and Market streets. The suspect — Patrick Thompson — however, refused to come to court from jail.
SF News SF Police Arrest Suspect in Robbing and Stabbing of Asian Man On Friday, SFPD released a statement citing that they've arrested a suspect in relation to the stabbing and robbing of a 53-year-old Asian man on April 10.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Retired Boxer Gets Misdemeanor Citation In Alleged Attack on Filipino Teen Outside Gino & Carlo Bar In North Beach A story broke over the weekend that was initially characterized as another anti-Asian attack, this time outside a famed North Beach bar, with a victim who was 18 years old, but it appears to have been more of an interpersonal conflict.
SF News Elderly Asian Woman Says She Will Donate Crowdfunding Windfall Back to the Community to Fight Racism After a GoFundMe that was set up last week to raise funds to cover medical expenses for a 75-year-old woman who was seen beaten and bruised in an attack on Market Street raised over $900,000, the woman says she'll be donating the money back to the Asian American community.
SF News GoFundMe For Elderly Chinese Woman Who Pummelled Her Market Street Attacker Raises Over $300K A crowdfunding campaign set up just yesterday for the elderly Chinese woman assaulted on San Francisco's Market Street on Wednesday has already raised over $300,000 — due in no small part because she was seen fighting back, and she sent her attacker to the hospital.
SF News Elderly Asian Woman Attacked On Market Street Pummels Her Attacker With Stick A 70-year-old Asian woman, injured by a much younger man she said was "bullying" her, successfully beat up her attacker on San Francisco's Market Street Wednesday morning.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Oakland Robbery/Homicide of Elderly Asian Man A second man was arrested in connection with last week's robbery and death of 75-year-old Pak Ho in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
SF News Oakland Communities Rally Together at Madison Park to Denounce Violence Against Asian Americans A crowd of some 500 people — made up of multicultural members from Black, Brown, and other communities — gathered in Oakland's Madison Park Saturday afternoon to protest the growing number of attacks against Asian Americans amid the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Porn Star Jeremy Long Comes Out As UC Berkeley Law Student Asian American, hetero porn star Jeremy Long has dreams of becoming a public defender, and as CBS 5's Joe Vasquez reports, he's currently enrolled in his second year of law school UC Berkeley's
SF News Warriors Sign First Asian-American Player Since 1947 Noted as the first Asian-American player signed by the Warriors since 1947, Harvard student Jeremy Lin landed a deal with the East Bay team. "I consider myself a basketball player more than an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Asian Americans vs. ABC Disney It all has to do with what lovely local Teri Hatcher said on a recent edition of ABC's . The offending line of dialogue from the show: “Okay, before we go any further, can
