Author: tjman
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Poll finds Asian Americans feel less safe in S.F. than other groups
SFChronicle.com Jade Le has lived in the Tenderloin for 11 years and loves her San Francisco neighborhood. But it’s now in the worst state that she’s ever seen, particularly in terms of safety. Le, who is Vietnamese and Chinese, said she was assaulted four times near her home during the pandemic — punched in the…
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Remembering Joseph Ileto – Victim of White Supremacist Murder in 1999
White supremacist who had gone on a rampage to kill Jews gunned down a Filipino American postal worker On August 10, 1999, Joseph Ileto died after being shot nine times moments after agreeing to deliver a letter for the man who killed him. Buford O’Neal Furrow, Jr. started the day opening fire with a semi-automatic…
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Angelo “Asian George Floyd” Quinto – A Police Murder in Antioch, California
The Killing of Angelo Quinto and crisis in mental health
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Living Legacies from the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz
By MARY UYEMATSU KAO January 29, 2022 Rafu Shimpo Japanese Americans were imprisoned in concentration camps by the U.S. governement in 1942 and stripped of their Constitutional Rights. Many of these camps were set up on indigenous tribal reservations against the wishes of those reservations. Regardless, there is a long history of solidarity between Japanese…
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Man arrested for Rowland Heights robbery; deputies searching for more suspects
Aug 15, 2022 One man has been arrested for a violent parking lot robbery in Rowland Heights last month, but LASD deputies are searching for one other suspect. The incident occurred in the parking lot of the Ranch 99 Market in Rowland Height in July: https://abc7.com/rowland-heights-rolex-robbery-jewelry-theft-nogales-avenue/12038255/ Shortly after the attacks, the Asian American community joined…
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Texan sentenced 25 years in hate crime stabbing of Asian family
AsAmNews Posted By Randall August 4, 2022 The Justice Department announced the sentencing of Jose Gomez III to 25 years in state prison on hate crime charges for the stabbing of a father and his two children. Prosecutors contend Gomez stabbed the family in Midland, TX because he thought they were Chinese which he blamed…
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70-year-old woman brutally beaten, kicked by 4 attackers in SF
A 70-year-old woman is speaking from her bedside after being beaten brutally and even kicked in the head by multiple attackers, in broad daylight in San Francisco.
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Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising
Americans continue to wrongly blame people of Asian descent for the coronavirus, and a greater percentage are harboring distrust of their loyalties, according to a new report.
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Remembering Vincent Chin and the Deep Roots of anti-Asian Violence
Like with Chin’s killing, recent anti-Asian hate crimes reflect a willingness to conflate individual Asian people and US tensions with Asian countries. As Americans — including politicians — looked for someone to hold responsible for Covid-19, Asian Americans were targeted given the virus’s origins in China. And since the US is now locked in economic…