SF News Hate Crime Charge Filed In Alleged Antisemitic Assault With Skateboard on Haight Street An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
SF News Alleged Club Q Mass Shooter Reportedly the Grandson of a Sitting GOP California Assemblymember We’re learning more today about the shooter in Saturday night’s massacre at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, including the fact that his grandfather is reportedly a sitting Republican California state Assemblyperson representing San Diego County.
SF News Shooter at Club Q in Colorado Kills Five, Leaves at Least Another 25 Injured On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire inside a Colorado Springs queer nightclub, fatally wounding five individuals and injuring at least twenty-five others; patrons inside Club Q are being praised for their bravery.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin in Murder of Elderly Anza Vista Man, Packing Courtroom and Drawing Rally The January 2021 killing of 84-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee in San Francisco had its first preliminary hearing at the Hall of Justice Tuesday, with the victim’s loved ones and their supporters rallying outside beforehand.
SF News SF Gay Man Shot In Apparent Hate-Crime Incident In SoMa A man who says he was just heading home after being out for drinks with friends last week in SF's SoMa district was shot in the hip in a random attack that he says was motivated by homophobic hate.
SF News Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women The suspects allegedly targeted Asian women exclusively, according to the Santa Clara DA, and had a pattern of attacking women walking alone to their cars.
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 A Cabaret Group of San Francisco Grandmothers Is Denouncing Asian Hate — One Rap Lyric at a Time Absolutely dripping in swag, this troupe of 60-plus-year-old Asian grandmothers has gone viral for their anti-Asian hate rap song, "Gai Mou Sou Rap," that's now been performed IRL across the Bay Area — including today at San Francisco's Chinatown at Portsmouth Square.
SF News Plea Delayed For Suspect In San Jose Hate-Crime Assault As Competency Is Assessed A man accused in an alleged physical and sexual assault at a San Jose train station in March that came with anti-Asian epithets remains in jail without bail, but he has not yet entered a plea in the case.
SF News Two Elderly Asian Women Stabbed on Mid-Market, Suspect Arrested A pair of elderly Asian women were stabbed and seriously injured while waiting for a bus at 4th and Market streets on Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested a few blocks away.
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 News Asian Woman Attacked and Robbed at Gunpoint in Sunset District, Has $16K Rolex Stolen An Asian woman — who only wants to be identified as "Ms. Lee'' — was violently knocked to the ground and held at gunpoint while walking back to her niece's Sunset District residence from dinner with a friend. Her handbag and jewelry, which included a $16K Rolex, were stolen during the attack.
SF News Public Defender Says Attack on Elderly Asian Woman Not Hate Crime, Suspect Himself Was Beaten Up A new wrinkle has arisen in the case that’s raised $1 million on GoFundMe, as surveillance video indicates the attacker himself had just been beaten pretty senseless.
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 Politics DA Boudin Faces Another Round of Outrage Over ‘Temper Tantrum’ Comment One out-of-context sentence from a New York Times interview is the latest fodder for right-wing media and the Recall Chesa crowd to throw, well, temper tantrums.
SF News Man Charged With Hate Crimes for Swastika Painted on Temple Has Sordid Berkeley Past The last thing Jewish people want to see is a swastika, ever. The Nazi symbol is especially unsettling on the front door of a synagogue, but that’s exactly what was found this week at Oakland’s Temple Sinai.
SF News Racist East Bay Letter Writer Arrested By San Leandro Police; Released Due to Backed-Up Bail Schedule 52-year-old Nancy Arechiga was apprehended by San Leandro police in relation to a number of xenophobic notes posted at the homes of East Bay Asian Americans, as well as in nearby public places, though she was later released due to the state’s backed-up bail schedule caused by the pandemic.
SF News Asian Americans In SF and Elsewhere See New Wave Of Racist Attacks Stemming From Pandemic Many of us who lived through the post-9/11 months of 2001 were bracing for the inevitable ugliness of American racism to rear its head during the coronavirus crisis, and it has, only not just in America this time.
SF News East Bay Jewish Community On Edge As Guy Who Threatened To Shoot Up Synagogue Walks Free Ross Farca is a free man, despite bragging on a video game platform that he planned to commit a synagogue "shooting with a body count of over 30,” having a history of mental illness, and cops found him with an illegal AR-15.
SF News Oakland Synagogue Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti Just after the celebration of Rosh Hashanah Wednesday night, a Jewish synagogue in Oakland was vandalized early Thursday morning with anti-Semitic graffiti. As KRON 4 reports, the rabbi at Temple Sinai found the
SF News Asian American Family Threatened For Putting Black Lives Matter Sign In Window One Asian American family in San Francisco has been the target of hate mail since putting up a Black Lives Matter sign in their window. KRON 4 reports that Debbie Lee has had
SF News Spree Shooting In Fresno Being Investigated As Black-On-White Hate Crime The fatal shootings of three white men Tuesday morning in downtown Fresno are being investigated as hate crimes, and the suspect, a 39-year-old African American man named Kori Ali Muhammad, was known to
SF News Woman Caught On Video Vandalizing Davis Mosque With Bacon, Shattered Windows The Islamic Center of Davis was vandalized on Sunday, and surveillance video shows a woman in her 20s or 30s arriving outside the mosque around 3:50 a.m., leaving strips of bacon
SF News Leaked Facebook Moderation Doc Says Photo Of Fergie Peeing Is OK, Mocking The French Not OK A weird and possibly old set of guideline slides for third-party moderators of Facebook posts was leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung that shows a bunch of confusing distinctions between what constitutes hate
