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All have serious expressions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon rises over a crowd of hundreds of members and allies of the Bay Area Palestinian community during a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The violence abroad has its impact within the United States. Palestinian, Arab American, Muslim and Jewish communities have told media outlets that they currently fear potential violence and harassment. In an open letter in support of freedom of speech on college campuses, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/why-we-must-reject-efforts-to-restrict-constitutionally-protected-speech-on-college-campuses\">the organization was “seeing a rise in antisemitic and anti-Arab and Muslim discrimination, with documented threats against Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, and Middle Eastern and South Asian origin students and faculty alike.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a 69-year-old Jewish man died after falling amidst dueling demonstrations in Southern California between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/california-jewish-man-paul-kessler-israel-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8kw.r0ec.4mURdNmZ_MMW&smid=url-share\">Authorities told the New York Times they were investigating the incident as a homicide and possible hate crime.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 4,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/stanford-muslim-student-hit-run-hate-crime\"> an Arab Muslim student — Abdulwahab Omira — at Stanford University was hospitalized in a hit-and-run incident\u003c/a> that is being \u003ca href=\"https://police.stanford.edu/alert/alertsu.html?alertid=1402#top\">investigated as a hate crime\u003c/a>. The university said the driver was reported to have made eye contact with Omira, accelerated and hit him and yelled “f*** you and your people” in the lowered window of the SUV. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stanford-university-hit-run-victim-shares-message-hospital-rcna123738\">Omira told NBC News\u003c/a> that the “ordeal has solidified my resolve to advocate for love, understanding, and inclusivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 14, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy named Wadea Al-Fayoume was\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206256504/mourners-gather-for-6-year-old-palestinian-american-boy-who-was-fatally-stabbed\"> fatally stabbed in his home in a suburb of Chicago by his landlord\u003c/a>. His mother was also injured in the assault. Officers determined the family was targeted by their landlord “due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WillCountySheriff/posts/pfbid0KUUoQZaZb6KPoVG3EUy3sdoENpoyb7rk9FDV7GFJ9iZ3FUPDapMj3gMnhvrCMiRGl\">and charged the landlord with a hate crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of fear. There’s a lot of anxiety and uncertainty in everything that’s happening,” Abed Ayoub, national executive director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestine-muslim-jewish-hate-crimes-3528a67cdf4e6799355be0da9a3c0634\">the Associated Press in mid-October\u003c/a>. He adds that his organization has received more than 100 reports of verbal harassment, threats, intimidation and physical attacks. “It’s very reminiscent of the early days of post-9/11, where people didn’t want to go outside, they didn’t want to send their kids to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes in California are defined by an act that is illegal under the law and is motivated by bias toward a specific group. This can be through \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/learn-about-hate-crimes\">physical violence or threats and also property destruction\u003c/a> — as when San Francisco Mayor London Breed confirmed last month that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-police-investigate-anti-israeli-graffiti-on-market-street-storefront-as-a-hate-crime/\">graffiti that threatened violence against Israel\u003c/a> was being investigated as a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recognition of this moment, KQED is now republishing our guide from 2020 on hate crimes — then published following a spike in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892437/oaklanders-combat-chinatown-attacks-with-volunteering-mutual-aid\">violent attacks targeting Asian American elders in California\u003c/a> — which includes what to do if you witness or are the victim of a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can skip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827832/what-is-a-hate-crime-and-what-you-can-do-if-you-experience-one#cope\">mental health resources and hotlines for those impact by hate by click on this link\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand hovers over a lit candle that is inside a paper cup.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vigil attendee shields their candle from the wind as hundreds of members of the Palestinian community in the Bay Area gather for a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story, from Audrey Garces, below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I researched hate crimes in the Bay Area to bring you this guide. But even as I did so, my reporting took a very personal turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a socially distanced road trip to the Yosemite Foothills with my partner Arash and a couple friends in the summer of 2020, we all stopped briefly at a grocery store, where Arash asked an employee if he could use the restroom — but was told they were closed to customers. He ran across the street to use another bathroom instead. While I went to wait in the car, Arash then returned to the grocery store to meet back up with our friends. He soon came out shaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that the store’s restrooms hadn’t been closed — and that our white friend and other white customers had been allowed to use them. Not only that, but when the employee who had denied Arash access saw he’d returned to the store, the man begun boasting loudly to a coworker about sleeping with loaded firearms, and how he was ready to discharge them on “crazy people.” As he said this, he gestured towards my partner — the only person of color in the store, aside from myself earlier — who was wearing a mask that said ‘Black Lives Matter.’ He continued making his threats as Arash swiftly left the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a journalist who’d spent that week compiling resources for people facing situations just like this, even \u003cem>I\u003c/em> was left asking questions. Was that a hate crime? What do we do? Who can we call? How do we process these feelings — of shock, of anger, of helplessness and suddenly feeling very unsafe?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"define\">\u003c/a>What is the Definition of a Hate Crime?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Firstly, authorities will treat a hate crime differently than a hate \u003cem>incident\u003c/em>. The legal distinction between a hate crime and a hate incident determines if police can conduct an investigation and charge the perpetrator — for a hate incident, they can’t — but it can be tricky to distinguish the two. And it’s common for people to doubt the validity of their own experiences — as my partner and I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bottom line is: Most anti-hate organizations collect reports of hate crimes \u003cem>and\u003c/em> incidents. And if you want to file a report to police, but aren’t sure if it rises to the level of a crime, don’t let that hold you back. You have the right to still report a hate incident, and these reports are valuable to law enforcement regardless. Even if it’s not ultimately deemed a hate crime, police will still connect you with relevant resources, according to Sheryl Davis, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org\">San Francisco Human Rights Commission\u003c/a> (HRC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a hate crime? We often think of them in terms of physical violence or property destruction, based on what makes news headlines. But the definition is actually more encompassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hate crime is committed when an act that is \u003cem>illegal under the law\u003c/em> is motivated by bias toward a specific group, such as on the basis of:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Race or color\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>National origin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Religion\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sexual orientation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gender or gender identity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Disability\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If the action or speech in question threatens a person or property, that’s a telltale sign it’s a hate crime. In California, hate crimes are prosecuted by city and district attorneys under the state’s penal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How should you deal with a hate crime in the moment? Documenting is important, but your safety is key. \u003ccite>(Johan Bos/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hate \u003cem>incidents\u003c/em>, on the other hand, are when an action is motivated by bias but doesn’t rise to the level of a crime. These can include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Name-calling\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Insults\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Distributing hate material in public places, or on someone’s own property.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These instances are often legally protected by the Constitutional right to freedom of speech. However, hate incidents can \u003cem>still\u003c/em> be the subject of civil lawsuits, under the state’s civil code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco HRC, and many other organizations doing anti-hate work, say it’s important to capture hate crimes \u003cem>and\u003c/em> incidents. That’s because they believe FBI and state law enforcement reports are under-representing the bigger picture of racism, violence and threats happening — both because of underreporting to law enforcement, and the absence of incidents that don’t rise to the level of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"experience\">\u003c/a>What Should I Do During a Hate Crime?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>My partner Arash is from a Southern California town where the population is 70 percent white. He’s told me stories from his childhood: from the time his family was shot at and berated to “go back to their own country,” to being profiled and harassed by police before hitting puberty — all under the backdrop of Confederate flags proudly waving throughout his hometown. He’s no stranger to racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still — in that moment in the grocery store — he said he felt completely helpless. “I’ve been forced to prepare for experiences like this my entire life. But in the moment, none of that mattered because of the overwhelm of shock and emotion,” Arash told me. “I didn’t feel safe to speak up because I thought I’d be seen not as the victim, but as the aggressor — in an environment I was already unwelcome in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every hate crime or incident is different, and it can be challenging to know how to respond in the moment. The most important two things to remember are: trust your instincts, and prioritize safety above all else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some best practices for witnesses and victims of hate crimes in the moment, based on guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/2020/05/what-to-do-when-you-see-or-experience-covid-19-hate/\">Stop AAPI Hate team\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/media/13637/download\">Anti-Defamation League\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\">Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re the one experiencing hate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If it’s safe to do so, leave the area or move to a location with other people who might be able to support you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check in with yourself and try to remain calm. Focus on your breathing, limit eye-contact and be conscious of your body language\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s best to not speak or engage with the perpetrator. But if it’s safe to do so, use a calm and firm tone to verbally establish physical boundaries and condemn the attacker’s speech or actions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If there are witnesses present, ask them for support or intervention\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Seek medical attention, if necessary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Following the incident, get emotional support from your loved ones and/or a mental health specialist\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consider reporting the incident (see more on that below).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re \u003cem>witnessing\u003c/em> hate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Introduce yourself to the person being targeted and ask how you can support them\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the victim consents and it’s safe to do so, continue to monitor the situation and document it\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ignore the perpetrator and use verbal and nonverbal communication to deescalate the situation, if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Invite the victim to leave with you, if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offer them support, ask how they’re feeling and what they want to do next.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"mailto:?subject=I%20thought%20you%20might%20find%20this%20article%20from%20KQED%20interesting%20&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11827832%2Fwhat-is-a-hate-crime-and-what-you-can-do-if-you-experience-one\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Reminder: click here to email this guide to someone \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"document\">\u003c/a>How Should I Document a Hate Crime?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because of the volume of hate crimes we see in videos across social media, captured by people at the scene, getting out your phone might seem like a crucial step. But while documenting and reporting hate incidents \u003cem>are\u003c/em> important, “personal safety should always be paramount,” said Seth Brysk, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828184\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828184\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How should you deal with a hate crime in the moment? Documenting is important, but your safety is key. \u003ccite>(Wendy Wei/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some ideas for documenting hate safely are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Write down notes about what happened and the exact words that were said\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Write a description of the perpetrator(s) and vehicle, if relevant, and collect information from any witnesses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Save all evidence, and take photos and video, \u003cem>only\u003c/em> if you feel safe doing so\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Collect the names and contact information of any other victims and witnesses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you want to, and feel safe doing so, contact the local police or sheriff and/or report to community organizations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"report\">\u003c/a>How to Report Hate if You Don’t Want to Involve Police\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you don’t wish to involve the police by report a hate crime or incident to them, there are community organizations and some city localities collecting reports in order to educate others, inform policy and show service providers where support is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheryl Davis, the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission\"]‘What do we do for those moments and those times when something happens, but it’s not connected with a violent act or vandalism? How do we capture that information?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco HRC, which staffs the San Francisco Coalition Against Hate Violence — a group made up of 20 agencies working to end hate incidents and hate crimes — has a holistic system in place where people can report hate crimes and incidents. The commission \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> contact the police, unless the victim consents to it. However, not all local reporting systems have the same commitment, so you should always ask before going through the reporting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HRC’s Sheryl Davis said her office is working on expanding its mental health support and how to address and deal with the trauma itself. “What do we do for those moments and those times when something happens, but it’s not connected with a violent act or vandalism? How do we capture that information?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a whole system shift that we have to think about, as this is becoming more centered and people are talking about it a little bit more,” Davis said. “How do we mainstream this and be more intentional about what we’re seeing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, her office received multiple reports of verbal abuse toward people riding San Francisco’s Muni for speaking languages other than English. Although she said it’s unlikely they’d be able to track down the specific people who made comments, these reports can nonetheless lead to conversations with the MTA, and inform any potential campaign around this issue to prevent it from happening in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where you come to file a complaint if you feel like you’ve been discriminated against or experienced bias, and then it helps us really inform policy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are local and federal groups that collect hate crime and incident reports that you could contact:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco residents can file a report to the city’s Human Rights Commission by emailing Program Director Tuquan Harrison at Tuquan.Harrison@sfgov.org\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Council of American-Islamic Relations of the San Francisco Bay Area is documenting Islamophobia, hate incidents and crimes and providing assistance to victims: \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/sfba/what-we-do/legal-services/report-an-incident/\">Report to them here,\u003c/a> or call their civil rights department at 408-986-9874\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Communities Against Hate is a coalition — led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and The Leadership Conference Education Fund — to document hate and connect victims to resources, mental health services and in some cases, legal counsel. \u003ca href=\"https://communitiesagainsthate.org/report\">Report to them here\u003c/a> or call 1-844-9-NO-HATE\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and extremists around the country: \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate\">Report to them here\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Anti-Defamation League investigates incidents of bias, hatred or bigotry: \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/reportincident\">Report to them here\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and Chinese for Affirmative Action have a reporting center for incidents of hate against Asian American and Pacific Islanders, which can include microaggressions, bullying, harassment, hate speech or violence: \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/\">Report to them here\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.usccr.gov/filing/complaint.php\">U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ complaint referral service\u003c/a> can connect you with the appropriate office for filing a discrimination complaint: Call them at 1-800-552-6843\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If the incident occurred inside a business, you can also reach out to the managers or headquarters of the company to make a direct complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Report a Hate Crime to the Police\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some state agencies and community groups encourage contacting local law enforcement as an important step to take after a hate crime occurs. You can contact your local police or sheriff’s office via their non-emergency line, or dial 911 if it’s an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Natalye Pearson, a Berkeley-based licensed clinical psychologist\"]‘Part of racism is that we dismiss our own experience as not real. It’s like, ‘Oh, no, that’s not happening. Oh, no, I’m not affected by that. No, that’s not why I’m anxious.’ And that’s completely why we are.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreuW7vgjSM&feature=youtu.be\">video\u003c/a> in June calling on Californians to unite against hate, Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, “Crime motivated by hate leaves a deep, lasting scar that can corrode and ripple through society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this current public health crisis, unfortunately has made many of those ripple affects stronger and clearer than ever,” added Assemblymember Shirley Weber, the chair of California’s legislative Black caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\">Here is more information\u003c/a> from the attorney general’s office about spotting and reporting hate crimes to law enforcement. You can also make a federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/get-help-now\">report to the FBI here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center is a public safety government program that works alongside law enforcement to provide a regional picture of trends and patterns. You can report a hate crime to the center \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.ca.gov/default.aspx?menuitemid=779\">here\u003c/a>, as a supplement to reporting to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"cope\">\u003c/a>Mental Health Tips and Resources for People Impacted by Hate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experiencing hate and racism can ignite trauma on multiple levels — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11616586/just-like-my-mother-how-we-inherit-our-parents-traits-and-tragedies\">intergenerational trauma\u003c/a> passed down genetically — as well as acutely impacting our feeling of safety in the immediate moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828180\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being the victim of, or a witness to, a hate crime can be a traumatizing experience. \u003ccite>(Inzmam Khan/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that we recognize that racism is trauma,” said Dr. Natalye Pearson, a Berkeley-based licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma and racial identity. “Part of racism is that we dismiss our own experience as not real. It’s like, ‘Oh, no, that’s not happening. Oh, no, I’m not affected by that. No, that’s not why I’m anxious.’ And that’s completely why we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13881725,mindshift_56063,arts_13881399\" label=\"Mental Health Resources\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/A-transgender-woman-sitting-on-a-therapists-couch-and-listening-1020x693.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes and incidents impact not just the direct targets, but the trauma also reverberates into their communities — and to people who may see the incident in the news or on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing those images repeatedly, over and over and over again, it really is traumatic,” Pearson said. “When we see things like George Floyd and that police officer on his neck — for a lot of us — it brings up a public lynching, and then reinforces how fragile life is. And we are seeing the ways in which we are not safe in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every individual processes trauma differently, but Pearson offered some advice for people seeking ways to cope with experiencing hate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Identify safe sources of support and community.\u003c/strong> This could include reaching out to friends, family, local organizations and support groups, networks within your work, churches or other means of community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for a therapist, if you want to.\u003c/strong> Finding a compatible therapist can take time — and that’s ok. There’s also stigma around therapy in some communities, but Pearson said it can be incredibly helpful to have that hour to focus on yourself. “That is also another symptom of racism that we don’t really recognize, that we actually deserve that. We can have an hour of just talking about what’s happening for us,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\">Here’s where to find\u003c/a> affordable, culturally competent therapy in Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Explore healthy coping skills.\u003c/strong> This might be in the form of journaling, art, taking a walk, talking to an elder in your community — the possibilities are endless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seek additional means of support.\u003c/strong> Here is where you can reach out for additional support and mental health resources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/hateviolence/\">California’s Civil Rights Department\u003c/a> has its own new hotline that connects survivors with no-cost therapy and legal services. The number is 833-8 NO HATE.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk\">Lambda Legal’s Help desk\u003c/a> provides resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and HIV status.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The\u003ca href=\"https://victimsupportservices.org/help-for-victims/crime-types/hate-bias-crimes/\"> Victim Support Services\u003c/a> has a 24-hour crisis line with trained advocates to provide free resources at 855-484-2846.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Southern Poverty Law Center has \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide\">a guide for fighting hate\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Francisco HRC is expanding its \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org/respect-love-toolkit\">Love and Respect toolkit\u003c/a>, which was created in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, in order to provide resources to communities in need. They also host a weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pg/San-Francisco-Human-Rights-Commission-167539056647973/posts/\">Facebook Live\u003c/a> event called Thoughtful Thursdays, a series of self-care conversations to offer mental health and mindfulness techniques.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.therapistsofcolor.org\">Therapists of Color, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us\">Psychology Today\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abpsi.org\">Association of Black Psychologists \u003c/a>can provide additional support in finding a culturally competent therapist.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"How is a hate crime defined? What should you do if you experience one? And who can you report it to if you don't want to involve police?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700088869,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":65,"wordCount":3944},"headData":{"title":"What Is a Hate Crime? And What You Can Do if You Experience One | KQED","description":"How is a hate crime defined? What should you do if you experience one? 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In the weeks since, Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-11-6-2023-51286d15dddd77ae0dd7ea76ee52bc71\">more than 10,000 people\u003c/a>, over 4,100 of whom were children, according to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a>. (The United Nations has stated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/un-says-gaza-health-ministry-death-tolls-in-previous-wars\">these numbers provided by the Health Ministry\u003c/a> have been credible in the past.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands more Palestinians have been wounded during Israeli air raids, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-conflict/card/u-n-says-1-4-million-gazans-internally-displaced-ChaeqiwXv2YoYakju2zl\">around 1.4 million internally displaced\u003c/a>. The crisis has prompted huge crowds and protests \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966423/thousands-of-protestors-rally-in-san-francisco-calling-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza\">in the Bay Area in support of a ceasefire in Gaza\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">Read more about this history from NPR in their ‘Middle East Crisis — Explained’ series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd stands in silence in a large park, and looks away from the camera. Many are holding candles. All have serious expressions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-014-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon rises over a crowd of hundreds of members and allies of the Bay Area Palestinian community during a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The violence abroad has its impact within the United States. Palestinian, Arab American, Muslim and Jewish communities have told media outlets that they currently fear potential violence and harassment. In an open letter in support of freedom of speech on college campuses, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/why-we-must-reject-efforts-to-restrict-constitutionally-protected-speech-on-college-campuses\">the organization was “seeing a rise in antisemitic and anti-Arab and Muslim discrimination, with documented threats against Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, and Middle Eastern and South Asian origin students and faculty alike.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a 69-year-old Jewish man died after falling amidst dueling demonstrations in Southern California between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/california-jewish-man-paul-kessler-israel-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8kw.r0ec.4mURdNmZ_MMW&smid=url-share\">Authorities told the New York Times they were investigating the incident as a homicide and possible hate crime.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 4,\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/stanford-muslim-student-hit-run-hate-crime\"> an Arab Muslim student — Abdulwahab Omira — at Stanford University was hospitalized in a hit-and-run incident\u003c/a> that is being \u003ca href=\"https://police.stanford.edu/alert/alertsu.html?alertid=1402#top\">investigated as a hate crime\u003c/a>. The university said the driver was reported to have made eye contact with Omira, accelerated and hit him and yelled “f*** you and your people” in the lowered window of the SUV. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stanford-university-hit-run-victim-shares-message-hospital-rcna123738\">Omira told NBC News\u003c/a> that the “ordeal has solidified my resolve to advocate for love, understanding, and inclusivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 14, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy named Wadea Al-Fayoume was\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206256504/mourners-gather-for-6-year-old-palestinian-american-boy-who-was-fatally-stabbed\"> fatally stabbed in his home in a suburb of Chicago by his landlord\u003c/a>. His mother was also injured in the assault. Officers determined the family was targeted by their landlord “due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WillCountySheriff/posts/pfbid0KUUoQZaZb6KPoVG3EUy3sdoENpoyb7rk9FDV7GFJ9iZ3FUPDapMj3gMnhvrCMiRGl\">and charged the landlord with a hate crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of fear. There’s a lot of anxiety and uncertainty in everything that’s happening,” Abed Ayoub, national executive director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestine-muslim-jewish-hate-crimes-3528a67cdf4e6799355be0da9a3c0634\">the Associated Press in mid-October\u003c/a>. He adds that his organization has received more than 100 reports of verbal harassment, threats, intimidation and physical attacks. “It’s very reminiscent of the early days of post-9/11, where people didn’t want to go outside, they didn’t want to send their kids to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes in California are defined by an act that is illegal under the law and is motivated by bias toward a specific group. This can be through \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/learn-about-hate-crimes\">physical violence or threats and also property destruction\u003c/a> — as when San Francisco Mayor London Breed confirmed last month that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-police-investigate-anti-israeli-graffiti-on-market-street-storefront-as-a-hate-crime/\">graffiti that threatened violence against Israel\u003c/a> was being investigated as a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recognition of this moment, KQED is now republishing our guide from 2020 on hate crimes — then published following a spike in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892437/oaklanders-combat-chinatown-attacks-with-volunteering-mutual-aid\">violent attacks targeting Asian American elders in California\u003c/a> — which includes what to do if you witness or are the victim of a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can skip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827832/what-is-a-hate-crime-and-what-you-can-do-if-you-experience-one#cope\">mental health resources and hotlines for those impact by hate by click on this link\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A hand hovers over a lit candle that is inside a paper cup.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-024-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vigil attendee shields their candle from the wind as hundreds of members of the Palestinian community in the Bay Area gather for a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story, from Audrey Garces, below:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I researched hate crimes in the Bay Area to bring you this guide. But even as I did so, my reporting took a very personal turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a socially distanced road trip to the Yosemite Foothills with my partner Arash and a couple friends in the summer of 2020, we all stopped briefly at a grocery store, where Arash asked an employee if he could use the restroom — but was told they were closed to customers. He ran across the street to use another bathroom instead. While I went to wait in the car, Arash then returned to the grocery store to meet back up with our friends. He soon came out shaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that the store’s restrooms hadn’t been closed — and that our white friend and other white customers had been allowed to use them. Not only that, but when the employee who had denied Arash access saw he’d returned to the store, the man begun boasting loudly to a coworker about sleeping with loaded firearms, and how he was ready to discharge them on “crazy people.” As he said this, he gestured towards my partner — the only person of color in the store, aside from myself earlier — who was wearing a mask that said ‘Black Lives Matter.’ He continued making his threats as Arash swiftly left the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a journalist who’d spent that week compiling resources for people facing situations just like this, even \u003cem>I\u003c/em> was left asking questions. Was that a hate crime? What do we do? Who can we call? How do we process these feelings — of shock, of anger, of helplessness and suddenly feeling very unsafe?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"define\">\u003c/a>What is the Definition of a Hate Crime?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Firstly, authorities will treat a hate crime differently than a hate \u003cem>incident\u003c/em>. The legal distinction between a hate crime and a hate incident determines if police can conduct an investigation and charge the perpetrator — for a hate incident, they can’t — but it can be tricky to distinguish the two. And it’s common for people to doubt the validity of their own experiences — as my partner and I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bottom line is: Most anti-hate organizations collect reports of hate crimes \u003cem>and\u003c/em> incidents. And if you want to file a report to police, but aren’t sure if it rises to the level of a crime, don’t let that hold you back. You have the right to still report a hate incident, and these reports are valuable to law enforcement regardless. Even if it’s not ultimately deemed a hate crime, police will still connect you with relevant resources, according to Sheryl Davis, the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org\">San Francisco Human Rights Commission\u003c/a> (HRC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a hate crime? We often think of them in terms of physical violence or property destruction, based on what makes news headlines. But the definition is actually more encompassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hate crime is committed when an act that is \u003cem>illegal under the law\u003c/em> is motivated by bias toward a specific group, such as on the basis of:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Race or color\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>National origin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Religion\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sexual orientation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gender or gender identity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Disability\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If the action or speech in question threatens a person or property, that’s a telltale sign it’s a hate crime. In California, hate crimes are prosecuted by city and district attorneys under the state’s penal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Johan-Bos-Pexels-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How should you deal with a hate crime in the moment? Documenting is important, but your safety is key. \u003ccite>(Johan Bos/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hate \u003cem>incidents\u003c/em>, on the other hand, are when an action is motivated by bias but doesn’t rise to the level of a crime. These can include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Name-calling\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Insults\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Distributing hate material in public places, or on someone’s own property.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These instances are often legally protected by the Constitutional right to freedom of speech. However, hate incidents can \u003cem>still\u003c/em> be the subject of civil lawsuits, under the state’s civil code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco HRC, and many other organizations doing anti-hate work, say it’s important to capture hate crimes \u003cem>and\u003c/em> incidents. That’s because they believe FBI and state law enforcement reports are under-representing the bigger picture of racism, violence and threats happening — both because of underreporting to law enforcement, and the absence of incidents that don’t rise to the level of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"experience\">\u003c/a>What Should I Do During a Hate Crime?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>My partner Arash is from a Southern California town where the population is 70 percent white. He’s told me stories from his childhood: from the time his family was shot at and berated to “go back to their own country,” to being profiled and harassed by police before hitting puberty — all under the backdrop of Confederate flags proudly waving throughout his hometown. He’s no stranger to racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still — in that moment in the grocery store — he said he felt completely helpless. “I’ve been forced to prepare for experiences like this my entire life. But in the moment, none of that mattered because of the overwhelm of shock and emotion,” Arash told me. “I didn’t feel safe to speak up because I thought I’d be seen not as the victim, but as the aggressor — in an environment I was already unwelcome in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every hate crime or incident is different, and it can be challenging to know how to respond in the moment. The most important two things to remember are: trust your instincts, and prioritize safety above all else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some best practices for witnesses and victims of hate crimes in the moment, based on guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/2020/05/what-to-do-when-you-see-or-experience-covid-19-hate/\">Stop AAPI Hate team\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/media/13637/download\">Anti-Defamation League\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\">Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re the one experiencing hate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If it’s safe to do so, leave the area or move to a location with other people who might be able to support you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check in with yourself and try to remain calm. Focus on your breathing, limit eye-contact and be conscious of your body language\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s best to not speak or engage with the perpetrator. But if it’s safe to do so, use a calm and firm tone to verbally establish physical boundaries and condemn the attacker’s speech or actions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If there are witnesses present, ask them for support or intervention\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Seek medical attention, if necessary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Following the incident, get emotional support from your loved ones and/or a mental health specialist\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consider reporting the incident (see more on that below).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re \u003cem>witnessing\u003c/em> hate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Introduce yourself to the person being targeted and ask how you can support them\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If the victim consents and it’s safe to do so, continue to monitor the situation and document it\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ignore the perpetrator and use verbal and nonverbal communication to deescalate the situation, if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Invite the victim to leave with you, if possible\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offer them support, ask how they’re feeling and what they want to do next.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"mailto:?subject=I%20thought%20you%20might%20find%20this%20article%20from%20KQED%20interesting%20&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11827832%2Fwhat-is-a-hate-crime-and-what-you-can-do-if-you-experience-one\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Reminder: click here to email this guide to someone \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"document\">\u003c/a>How Should I Document a Hate Crime?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because of the volume of hate crimes we see in videos across social media, captured by people at the scene, getting out your phone might seem like a crucial step. But while documenting and reporting hate incidents \u003cem>are\u003c/em> important, “personal safety should always be paramount,” said Seth Brysk, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828184\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828184\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Wendy-Wei-Pexels-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How should you deal with a hate crime in the moment? Documenting is important, but your safety is key. \u003ccite>(Wendy Wei/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some ideas for documenting hate safely are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Write down notes about what happened and the exact words that were said\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Write a description of the perpetrator(s) and vehicle, if relevant, and collect information from any witnesses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Save all evidence, and take photos and video, \u003cem>only\u003c/em> if you feel safe doing so\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Collect the names and contact information of any other victims and witnesses\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you want to, and feel safe doing so, contact the local police or sheriff and/or report to community organizations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"report\">\u003c/a>How to Report Hate if You Don’t Want to Involve Police\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you don’t wish to involve the police by report a hate crime or incident to them, there are community organizations and some city localities collecting reports in order to educate others, inform policy and show service providers where support is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘What do we do for those moments and those times when something happens, but it’s not connected with a violent act or vandalism? How do we capture that information?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sheryl Davis, the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco HRC, which staffs the San Francisco Coalition Against Hate Violence — a group made up of 20 agencies working to end hate incidents and hate crimes — has a holistic system in place where people can report hate crimes and incidents. The commission \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> contact the police, unless the victim consents to it. However, not all local reporting systems have the same commitment, so you should always ask before going through the reporting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HRC’s Sheryl Davis said her office is working on expanding its mental health support and how to address and deal with the trauma itself. “What do we do for those moments and those times when something happens, but it’s not connected with a violent act or vandalism? How do we capture that information?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a whole system shift that we have to think about, as this is becoming more centered and people are talking about it a little bit more,” Davis said. “How do we mainstream this and be more intentional about what we’re seeing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, her office received multiple reports of verbal abuse toward people riding San Francisco’s Muni for speaking languages other than English. Although she said it’s unlikely they’d be able to track down the specific people who made comments, these reports can nonetheless lead to conversations with the MTA, and inform any potential campaign around this issue to prevent it from happening in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where you come to file a complaint if you feel like you’ve been discriminated against or experienced bias, and then it helps us really inform policy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are local and federal groups that collect hate crime and incident reports that you could contact:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco residents can file a report to the city’s Human Rights Commission by emailing Program Director Tuquan Harrison at Tuquan.Harrison@sfgov.org\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Council of American-Islamic Relations of the San Francisco Bay Area is documenting Islamophobia, hate incidents and crimes and providing assistance to victims: \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/sfba/what-we-do/legal-services/report-an-incident/\">Report to them here,\u003c/a> or call their civil rights department at 408-986-9874\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Communities Against Hate is a coalition — led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and The Leadership Conference Education Fund — to document hate and connect victims to resources, mental health services and in some cases, legal counsel. \u003ca href=\"https://communitiesagainsthate.org/report\">Report to them here\u003c/a> or call 1-844-9-NO-HATE\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and extremists around the country: \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate\">Report to them here\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Anti-Defamation League investigates incidents of bias, hatred or bigotry: \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/reportincident\">Report to them here\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and Chinese for Affirmative Action have a reporting center for incidents of hate against Asian American and Pacific Islanders, which can include microaggressions, bullying, harassment, hate speech or violence: \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/\">Report to them here\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.usccr.gov/filing/complaint.php\">U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ complaint referral service\u003c/a> can connect you with the appropriate office for filing a discrimination complaint: Call them at 1-800-552-6843\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If the incident occurred inside a business, you can also reach out to the managers or headquarters of the company to make a direct complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Report a Hate Crime to the Police\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some state agencies and community groups encourage contacting local law enforcement as an important step to take after a hate crime occurs. You can contact your local police or sheriff’s office via their non-emergency line, or dial 911 if it’s an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Part of racism is that we dismiss our own experience as not real. It’s like, ‘Oh, no, that’s not happening. Oh, no, I’m not affected by that. No, that’s not why I’m anxious.’ And that’s completely why we are.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Natalye Pearson, a Berkeley-based licensed clinical psychologist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreuW7vgjSM&feature=youtu.be\">video\u003c/a> in June calling on Californians to unite against hate, Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, “Crime motivated by hate leaves a deep, lasting scar that can corrode and ripple through society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this current public health crisis, unfortunately has made many of those ripple affects stronger and clearer than ever,” added Assemblymember Shirley Weber, the chair of California’s legislative Black caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\">Here is more information\u003c/a> from the attorney general’s office about spotting and reporting hate crimes to law enforcement. You can also make a federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/get-help-now\">report to the FBI here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center is a public safety government program that works alongside law enforcement to provide a regional picture of trends and patterns. You can report a hate crime to the center \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.ca.gov/default.aspx?menuitemid=779\">here\u003c/a>, as a supplement to reporting to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"cope\">\u003c/a>Mental Health Tips and Resources for People Impacted by Hate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experiencing hate and racism can ignite trauma on multiple levels — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11616586/just-like-my-mother-how-we-inherit-our-parents-traits-and-tragedies\">intergenerational trauma\u003c/a> passed down genetically — as well as acutely impacting our feeling of safety in the immediate moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828180\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Inzmam-Khan-Pexels-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being the victim of, or a witness to, a hate crime can be a traumatizing experience. \u003ccite>(Inzmam Khan/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that we recognize that racism is trauma,” said Dr. Natalye Pearson, a Berkeley-based licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma and racial identity. “Part of racism is that we dismiss our own experience as not real. It’s like, ‘Oh, no, that’s not happening. Oh, no, I’m not affected by that. No, that’s not why I’m anxious.’ And that’s completely why we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13881725,mindshift_56063,arts_13881399","label":"Mental Health Resources ","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/A-transgender-woman-sitting-on-a-therapists-couch-and-listening-1020x693.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes and incidents impact not just the direct targets, but the trauma also reverberates into their communities — and to people who may see the incident in the news or on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing those images repeatedly, over and over and over again, it really is traumatic,” Pearson said. “When we see things like George Floyd and that police officer on his neck — for a lot of us — it brings up a public lynching, and then reinforces how fragile life is. And we are seeing the ways in which we are not safe in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every individual processes trauma differently, but Pearson offered some advice for people seeking ways to cope with experiencing hate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Identify safe sources of support and community.\u003c/strong> This could include reaching out to friends, family, local organizations and support groups, networks within your work, churches or other means of community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for a therapist, if you want to.\u003c/strong> Finding a compatible therapist can take time — and that’s ok. There’s also stigma around therapy in some communities, but Pearson said it can be incredibly helpful to have that hour to focus on yourself. “That is also another symptom of racism that we don’t really recognize, that we actually deserve that. We can have an hour of just talking about what’s happening for us,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\">Here’s where to find\u003c/a> affordable, culturally competent therapy in Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Explore healthy coping skills.\u003c/strong> This might be in the form of journaling, art, taking a walk, talking to an elder in your community — the possibilities are endless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seek additional means of support.\u003c/strong> Here is where you can reach out for additional support and mental health resources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/hateviolence/\">California’s Civil Rights Department\u003c/a> has its own new hotline that connects survivors with no-cost therapy and legal services. The number is 833-8 NO HATE.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk\">Lambda Legal’s Help desk\u003c/a> provides resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and HIV status.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The\u003ca href=\"https://victimsupportservices.org/help-for-victims/crime-types/hate-bias-crimes/\"> Victim Support Services\u003c/a> has a 24-hour crisis line with trained advocates to provide free resources at 855-484-2846.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Southern Poverty Law Center has \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide\">a guide for fighting hate\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Francisco HRC is expanding its \u003ca href=\"https://sf-hrc.org/respect-love-toolkit\">Love and Respect toolkit\u003c/a>, which was created in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, in order to provide resources to communities in need. They also host a weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pg/San-Francisco-Human-Rights-Commission-167539056647973/posts/\">Facebook Live\u003c/a> event called Thoughtful Thursdays, a series of self-care conversations to offer mental health and mindfulness techniques.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.therapistsofcolor.org\">Therapists of Color, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us\">Psychology Today\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abpsi.org\">Association of Black Psychologists \u003c/a>can provide additional support in finding a culturally competent therapist.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. 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The state also put together a team of mediators to address conflicts in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Swap meet of hate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Sacramento and Los Angeles saw record levels of hate crimes in 2022, according to the study by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/hate-and-extremism-center\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism\u003c/a>, which independently analyzes data from local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say that while the state’s reported hate crime numbers appear to be dipping slightly in 2023, the upcoming presidential election is likely to turn up the temperature even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned about an increase next year,” said Brian Levin, a study author and member of the nine-month-old Commission on the State of Hate. He told fellow commissioners last month: “Mainstream politics has gotten not only more tribal, but also more bigoted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said in an interview with CalMatters that hate crimes historically rise in response to political speech and current events. But in recent years such spikes have lasted longer, such as when anti-Black crimes remained elevated months after 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11961103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Several people standing with protest signs and American flags.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors march at a rally against Asian hate crimes near the Los Angeles Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on March 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media provides “a 24–7 swap meet of hate,” he said. “We’re having a significant increase in hate crimes, and hate crimes are getting more violent. But we’re also having more reporting, particularly in certain areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes are notoriously difficult to track. Survivors often don’t report them, and local law enforcement agencies vary in how well they monitor them and how much they report to state and federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grants aim to help reduce or respond to hate crimes, and to incidents that may not rise to the level of a crime but nevertheless take a toll on an individual or community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anti-transgender hate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Terra Russell-Slavin, chief impact officer at the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, said the center is receiving more hate mail than in the past and recently experienced a credible bomb threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There definitely is increased fear among the community,” she said, adding that the rise in reported hate crimes against transgender people, while troubling, is not surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of a nationally coordinated attack against our community, and it’s very much targeted at transgender people and particularly trans youth issues,” she said, adding that anti-transgender rhetoric by elected officials “has been field-tested, and frankly it feels like attacking the transgender community is helping rally their base.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, received a wave of phone calls at the start of pride festival season from people organizing such events in small towns wondering if it was safe, said program director Erin Arendse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California is using its $630,000 state grant to create a rapid response network that can send staff and resources to local communities when issues arise — such as when a school board is deciding on policies that would out transgender students or ban rainbow flags in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure they understand these policies,” Arendse said, “both in terms of how it impacts an individual student and how it turns up the temperature of anti-transgender and LGBTQ sentiment and indicates that it’s OK to discriminate against this group of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black Californians most often affected\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California and nationwide, Black people and communities are the most frequent target of reported hate crimes, data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black people represented 6% of California’s population but about 30% of its reported hate crime victims in 2022, according to the attorney general’s office. Yet organizations focused on the Black community appear to be receiving a fraction of the grants the state is disbursing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group, the Black Youth Leadership Project in Elk Grove, a Sacramento suburb, will use its Stop the Hate funds to provide mental health services — from art therapy to support groups — to Black children who experience racism in school, said Lorreen Pryor, its president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11961104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman stands in the shadow with blue sky behind her. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorreen Pryor, president of the Black Youth Leadership Project, said her group was the only Black-led organization on a conference call about the state’s anti-hate hotline. She attended a festival in Elk Grove on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization often mediates between schools and outraged parents, advocating for administrators to take parents’ concerns seriously. School bias can range from a teacher using the N-word in class to a Black student being disciplined for behavior that is tolerated from other students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added she was surprised to discover that hers was the only Black-led group on a conference call of organizations consulting on the state’s hate hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to focus on the group that is most impacted, and that happens to be Black people,” Pryor said. “And until they do that, it’s all for naught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Early focus on anti-Asian hate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California originally created the Stop the Hate grants in response to a surge in anti-Asian hate incidents reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coalition \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2021/06/tracking-anti-asian-hate/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> has documented more than 11,000 such incidents nationwide since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom signed the Asian Pacific Islander Equity budget in 2021 funding the grants at the urging of the state’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Early grants primarily went to organizations serving that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state broadened its most recent round of grants to fund organizations that reflect California’s diversity, said Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of AAPI Equity Alliance, the lead organization distributing grants in the Los Angeles region. (The California Department of Social Services awards the grants.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s declining Black population may have depressed the number of Black-led organizations applying for and receiving funding, Kulkarni said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" the hate aria-label=\"Datawrapper visualization\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vHE3m/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"822\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some grants will address workplace hate. The NAACP’s California Hawaii State Conference is sponsoring legal consultations for people experiencing discrimination on the job or in housing. And San Francisco-based PRC, which helps Black transgender women reenter the workforce, is using its grant to make a film about its clients’ quest to overcome stigma and find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another documentary, produced by teen filmmakers, will chronicle the impact of hate crimes on immigrant and refugee communities in San Diego. Somali Family Service, the nonprofit spearheading the project, said it could empower other refugee communities and inspire policymakers to think about solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Middle Eastern and North African teenagers the organization serves have experienced or witnessed hate incidents, said Rachel Evans, the group’s youth program manager. Many tell her they stay home from school on September 11, hoping to avoid the racist and anti-Muslim taunts that have come from students, teachers and administrators on that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these youth were not even born when 9/11 happened and they’re experiencing this unjust, ridiculous blame,” said Evans. “They don’t feel welcome in the country based on something that has nothing to do with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inspiring victims to report hate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s hotline offers people who have experienced hate incidents an opportunity to report them, whether or not the incidents were crimes. From its launch in May through the end of August, it has received 361 calls, said the Civil Rights Department, which runs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One goal is to reach Californians who are reluctant to contact police or who live in remote areas with few community groups to turn to, department officials said. Callers can learn about the reporting process, file a civil rights complaint, and access counseling, legal services and other support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong Lee knows from experience how important such support can be. Three years ago, while standing in line at a restaurant, Lee turned down a man’s offer of a lunch date and he began yelling anti-Asian and sexist slurs at her. Lee captured the incident on video but a responding police officer called it “normal” and refused to take a report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month later Lee realized she was experiencing post-traumatic stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t sleeping at night, just staring up at the ceiling,” she said. “I was in complete denial that I needed help at first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend connected her with LA vs Hate, a Los Angeles-based precursor of the state’s hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped her get mental health counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Lee works with other hate incident survivors and has started a nonprofit organization, Seniors Fight Back, that provides self-defense classes to elderly Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Her group is not getting a state grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11961108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"People standing in line near tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somali Family Service, one of the groups receiving state anti-hate money, hosted immigrant families, refugees and asylum seekers at a resource fair in San Diego on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often people at her classes share that they’ve been physically assaulted, she said, and Lee encourages them to report it, saying that in her case, several other victims recognized the man in her video and he ultimately faced hate crime charges from another incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, many are reluctant to report. One woman in a self-defense class said she had been assaulted on public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had bruises all over her body, but she didn’t want to tell anybody about it,” Lee said. “Two years later, she’s still inside her apartment, because she’s afraid to go outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s report said anti-Asian hate crimes fell in California by 43% in 2022 but they’re still far above pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While scapegoating Asian Americans for the pandemic has receded nationally, anxiety about the economy and the U.S. relationship with China are driving other forms of anti-Asian racism, Kulkarni said. She cited Florida’s new law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/18/florida-chinese-land-laws/\">bars Chinese citizens\u003c/a> from owning property in much of that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microaggressions still are a common experience among Los Angeles’ Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, Kulkarni said, citing a state-funded study her group is conducting, but people are reporting declines in trauma symptoms when they speak out about their experiences. The AAPI Equity Alliance plans to use the study’s findings to launch support groups for Korean, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino and Japanese Americans in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice is using a state grant to build alliances among various ethnic communities to tackle issues that affect all of them, such as safety on public transit and within public housing complexes. Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a coalition member, said they’re asking public housing residents such questions as “Would you like to have escorts when you’re running errands? Would you like more opportunities to get to know your neighbors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is a concern for all communities, and it’s the one rallying point for residents and neighbors to come together around,” Choi said. “If we don’t tend to people’s basic needs being met, we are going to continue to see harm happen, whether it’s racially motivated or due to other factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community conflict resolutions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To help with that progress, the state’s new strike team of trained mediators will provide “immediate, on-the-ground intervention to avoid violence and to reduce tension in something that is live, something that is happening,” said Kevin Kish, director of the Civil Rights Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could mean stepping in after a hate incident to help community members and law enforcement respond or it could mean helping a city council or school board prepare for a contentious meeting, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody takes a class on how to deal with difficult public meetings,” he said. “People don’t know what to do and sometimes they make mistakes. Part of the value of this program is talking to folks in advance to make a plan for what might happen and how they’re going to respond.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11827832,news_11880068\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mediators are trained in both civil rights and government. They began working together in October, officials said, declining to discuss details of specific cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile the state’s Commission on the State of Hate is monitoring hate activity and hosting public forums. Consisting of activists, researchers, community leaders and law enforcement representatives appointed by the governor and Legislature, it’s required to issue annual reports and to recommend solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will all this effort actually reduce hate in California? Researchers say that just as bigoted comments by public officials can fuel crimes, when government leaders take strong stands against hate, such incidents decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop the Hate funding to community groups is part of a three-year plan, however it’s unclear whether lawmakers will choose to renew it. The law establishing the Commission on the State of Hate requires it to sunset in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is, can we make sure the state continues to sustain this level of investment?” Choi asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said a key will be more state outreach to grassroots organizations like her self-defense group. “We have the one-on-one connections to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Levin, from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism: “This is not something that’s going to be solved by so-called experts and advocates. It’s going to be solved by soccer coaches, principals, community leaders, journalists. We need a whole-community response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hate crimes were up 20% in California in 2022, with those against transgender, Muslim and Black people increasing especially sharply. But the state is also spending more than any other to combat such crimes, including a hotline, state commission and a new round of grants to community organizations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694653800,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vHE3m/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":62,"wordCount":2578},"headData":{"title":"Films, Counseling and Mediators — This Is How California Is Spending $90 Million to Fight Hate | KQED","description":"Hate crimes were up 20% in California in 2022, with those against transgender, Muslim and Black people increasing especially sharply. But the state is also spending more than any other to combat such crimes, including a hotline, state commission and a new round of grants to community organizations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/feliciacalmatters-org/\">Felicia Mello\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11960987/films-counseling-and-mediators-this-is-how-california-is-spending-90-million-to-fight-hate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California recently awarded \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CivilRights/(STH)_AWARD_ANNOUNCEMENT_FY_2022-2023_AND_2023-2024.pdf?ver=2023-08-21-150032-497\">$91 million in grants (PDF)\u003c/a> to local organizations that help prevent hate crimes or support survivors, part of an unprecedented effort to combat hate in a state that saw a 20% increase in such crimes in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its progressive reputation, California last year reported steep increases in hate crimes against transgender people (up 55%), Muslims (up 39%) and Black people (up 27%), according to the attorney general’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That growth outpaced similar hate growth trends in 42 major cities, according to a soon to be released study by Cal State San Bernardino’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/hate-and-extremism-center\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s latest Stop the Hate grants bring its non-law enforcement anti-hate spending to more than $200 million since 2021, more than any other state, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants will go to more than 170 community groups at a time when the state is experiencing a steady clip in high-profile hate incidents — from the August murder of a Southern California store owner who flew \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/us/california-pride-flag-shooting/index.html\">a rainbow flag\u003c/a>, and the recent evacuation of an Oakland elementary school after a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/29/chabot-elementary-evacuated-school-canceled-due-to-bomb-threat/\">racist bomb threat\u003c/a>, to the fiery debates over rights of transgender students at various school boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California in the past year created a commission to study \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/commission-on-the-state-of-hate/#:~:text=The%20Commission%20on%20the%20State,of%20hate%20activity%20in%20California\">the state of hate\u003c/a> and set up a \u003ca href=\"https://stophate.calcivilrights.ca.gov/s/\">hotline\u003c/a> for people to report incidents to its Civil Rights Department. The state also put together a team of mediators to address conflicts in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Swap meet of hate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Sacramento and Los Angeles saw record levels of hate crimes in 2022, according to the study by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/hate-and-extremism-center\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism\u003c/a>, which independently analyzes data from local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say that while the state’s reported hate crime numbers appear to be dipping slightly in 2023, the upcoming presidential election is likely to turn up the temperature even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned about an increase next year,” said Brian Levin, a study author and member of the nine-month-old Commission on the State of Hate. He told fellow commissioners last month: “Mainstream politics has gotten not only more tribal, but also more bigoted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said in an interview with CalMatters that hate crimes historically rise in response to political speech and current events. But in recent years such spikes have lasted longer, such as when anti-Black crimes remained elevated months after 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961103\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11961103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Several people standing with protest signs and American flags.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/02_032721_Asian_Hate_Crime_LA_AP_CM_01.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors march at a rally against Asian hate crimes near the Los Angeles Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on March 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media provides “a 24–7 swap meet of hate,” he said. “We’re having a significant increase in hate crimes, and hate crimes are getting more violent. But we’re also having more reporting, particularly in certain areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hate crimes are notoriously difficult to track. Survivors often don’t report them, and local law enforcement agencies vary in how well they monitor them and how much they report to state and federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s grants aim to help reduce or respond to hate crimes, and to incidents that may not rise to the level of a crime but nevertheless take a toll on an individual or community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Anti-transgender hate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Terra Russell-Slavin, chief impact officer at the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, said the center is receiving more hate mail than in the past and recently experienced a credible bomb threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There definitely is increased fear among the community,” she said, adding that the rise in reported hate crimes against transgender people, while troubling, is not surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of a nationally coordinated attack against our community, and it’s very much targeted at transgender people and particularly trans youth issues,” she said, adding that anti-transgender rhetoric by elected officials “has been field-tested, and frankly it feels like attacking the transgender community is helping rally their base.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, received a wave of phone calls at the start of pride festival season from people organizing such events in small towns wondering if it was safe, said program director Erin Arendse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California is using its $630,000 state grant to create a rapid response network that can send staff and resources to local communities when issues arise — such as when a school board is deciding on policies that would out transgender students or ban rainbow flags in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure they understand these policies,” Arendse said, “both in terms of how it impacts an individual student and how it turns up the temperature of anti-transgender and LGBTQ sentiment and indicates that it’s OK to discriminate against this group of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black Californians most often affected\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California and nationwide, Black people and communities are the most frequent target of reported hate crimes, data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black people represented 6% of California’s population but about 30% of its reported hate crime victims in 2022, according to the attorney general’s office. Yet organizations focused on the Black community appear to be receiving a fraction of the grants the state is disbursing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group, the Black Youth Leadership Project in Elk Grove, a Sacramento suburb, will use its Stop the Hate funds to provide mental health services — from art therapy to support groups — to Black children who experience racism in school, said Lorreen Pryor, its president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11961104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman stands in the shadow with blue sky behind her. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/03_09092023_Black_Students_Mental_Health_RL_03.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorreen Pryor, president of the Black Youth Leadership Project, said her group was the only Black-led organization on a conference call about the state’s anti-hate hotline. She attended a festival in Elk Grove on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization often mediates between schools and outraged parents, advocating for administrators to take parents’ concerns seriously. School bias can range from a teacher using the N-word in class to a Black student being disciplined for behavior that is tolerated from other students, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added she was surprised to discover that hers was the only Black-led group on a conference call of organizations consulting on the state’s hate hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to focus on the group that is most impacted, and that happens to be Black people,” Pryor said. “And until they do that, it’s all for naught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Early focus on anti-Asian hate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California originally created the Stop the Hate grants in response to a surge in anti-Asian hate incidents reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coalition \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2021/06/tracking-anti-asian-hate/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> has documented more than 11,000 such incidents nationwide since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom signed the Asian Pacific Islander Equity budget in 2021 funding the grants at the urging of the state’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Early grants primarily went to organizations serving that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state broadened its most recent round of grants to fund organizations that reflect California’s diversity, said Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of AAPI Equity Alliance, the lead organization distributing grants in the Los Angeles region. (The California Department of Social Services awards the grants.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s declining Black population may have depressed the number of Black-led organizations applying for and receiving funding, Kulkarni said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" the hate aria-label=\"Datawrapper visualization\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/vHE3m/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"822\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"datawrapper","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some grants will address workplace hate. The NAACP’s California Hawaii State Conference is sponsoring legal consultations for people experiencing discrimination on the job or in housing. And San Francisco-based PRC, which helps Black transgender women reenter the workforce, is using its grant to make a film about its clients’ quest to overcome stigma and find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another documentary, produced by teen filmmakers, will chronicle the impact of hate crimes on immigrant and refugee communities in San Diego. Somali Family Service, the nonprofit spearheading the project, said it could empower other refugee communities and inspire policymakers to think about solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Middle Eastern and North African teenagers the organization serves have experienced or witnessed hate incidents, said Rachel Evans, the group’s youth program manager. Many tell her they stay home from school on September 11, hoping to avoid the racist and anti-Muslim taunts that have come from students, teachers and administrators on that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these youth were not even born when 9/11 happened and they’re experiencing this unjust, ridiculous blame,” said Evans. “They don’t feel welcome in the country based on something that has nothing to do with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inspiring victims to report hate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s hotline offers people who have experienced hate incidents an opportunity to report them, whether or not the incidents were crimes. From its launch in May through the end of August, it has received 361 calls, said the Civil Rights Department, which runs it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One goal is to reach Californians who are reluctant to contact police or who live in remote areas with few community groups to turn to, department officials said. Callers can learn about the reporting process, file a civil rights complaint, and access counseling, legal services and other support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong Lee knows from experience how important such support can be. Three years ago, while standing in line at a restaurant, Lee turned down a man’s offer of a lunch date and he began yelling anti-Asian and sexist slurs at her. Lee captured the incident on video but a responding police officer called it “normal” and refused to take a report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month later Lee realized she was experiencing post-traumatic stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t sleeping at night, just staring up at the ceiling,” she said. “I was in complete denial that I needed help at first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend connected her with LA vs Hate, a Los Angeles-based precursor of the state’s hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped her get mental health counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Lee works with other hate incident survivors and has started a nonprofit organization, Seniors Fight Back, that provides self-defense classes to elderly Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Her group is not getting a state grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11961108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"People standing in line near tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/04_090923_Day_Of_Dignity_KC_CM_02.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somali Family Service, one of the groups receiving state anti-hate money, hosted immigrant families, refugees and asylum seekers at a resource fair in San Diego on Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kristian Carreon/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often people at her classes share that they’ve been physically assaulted, she said, and Lee encourages them to report it, saying that in her case, several other victims recognized the man in her video and he ultimately faced hate crime charges from another incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, many are reluctant to report. One woman in a self-defense class said she had been assaulted on public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had bruises all over her body, but she didn’t want to tell anybody about it,” Lee said. “Two years later, she’s still inside her apartment, because she’s afraid to go outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s report said anti-Asian hate crimes fell in California by 43% in 2022 but they’re still far above pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While scapegoating Asian Americans for the pandemic has receded nationally, anxiety about the economy and the U.S. relationship with China are driving other forms of anti-Asian racism, Kulkarni said. She cited Florida’s new law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/18/florida-chinese-land-laws/\">bars Chinese citizens\u003c/a> from owning property in much of that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microaggressions still are a common experience among Los Angeles’ Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, Kulkarni said, citing a state-funded study her group is conducting, but people are reporting declines in trauma symptoms when they speak out about their experiences. The AAPI Equity Alliance plans to use the study’s findings to launch support groups for Korean, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino and Japanese Americans in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice is using a state grant to build alliances among various ethnic communities to tackle issues that affect all of them, such as safety on public transit and within public housing complexes. Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a coalition member, said they’re asking public housing residents such questions as “Would you like to have escorts when you’re running errands? Would you like more opportunities to get to know your neighbors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety is a concern for all communities, and it’s the one rallying point for residents and neighbors to come together around,” Choi said. “If we don’t tend to people’s basic needs being met, we are going to continue to see harm happen, whether it’s racially motivated or due to other factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community conflict resolutions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To help with that progress, the state’s new strike team of trained mediators will provide “immediate, on-the-ground intervention to avoid violence and to reduce tension in something that is live, something that is happening,” said Kevin Kish, director of the Civil Rights Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could mean stepping in after a hate incident to help community members and law enforcement respond or it could mean helping a city council or school board prepare for a contentious meeting, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody takes a class on how to deal with difficult public meetings,” he said. “People don’t know what to do and sometimes they make mistakes. Part of the value of this program is talking to folks in advance to make a plan for what might happen and how they’re going to respond.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11827832,news_11880068"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mediators are trained in both civil rights and government. They began working together in October, officials said, declining to discuss details of specific cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile the state’s Commission on the State of Hate is monitoring hate activity and hosting public forums. Consisting of activists, researchers, community leaders and law enforcement representatives appointed by the governor and Legislature, it’s required to issue annual reports and to recommend solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will all this effort actually reduce hate in California? Researchers say that just as bigoted comments by public officials can fuel crimes, when government leaders take strong stands against hate, such incidents decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop the Hate funding to community groups is part of a three-year plan, however it’s unclear whether lawmakers will choose to renew it. The law establishing the Commission on the State of Hate requires it to sunset in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is, can we make sure the state continues to sustain this level of investment?” Choi asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said a key will be more state outreach to grassroots organizations like her self-defense group. “We have the one-on-one connections to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Levin, from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism: “This is not something that’s going to be solved by so-called experts and advocates. It’s going to be solved by soccer coaches, principals, community leaders, journalists. We need a whole-community response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11960987/films-counseling-and-mediators-this-is-how-california-is-spending-90-million-to-fight-hate","authors":["byline_news_11960987"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29267","news_33186","news_29910","news_33187","news_33185","news_4273","news_19216"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11961096","label":"news_18481"},"news_11947952":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11947952","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11947952","score":null,"sort":[1682683280000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-diego-neo-nazi-arrested-after-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house-sources-say","title":"San Diego Neo-Nazi Arrested After Antisemitic Incident at Anne Frank House, ADL Says","publishDate":1682683280,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Diego Neo-Nazi Arrested After Antisemitic Incident at Anne Frank House, ADL Says | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of an ongoing project of \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/\">inewsource\u003c/a> in San Diego, KQED and other NPR member stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ormer San Diego County resident Robert Wilson, a known neo-Nazi, was arrested Tuesday by Polish authorities on suspicion of projecting an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, according to experts who monitor extremist activity around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amsterdam police said a 41-year-old suspect was arrested in Poland after an investigation into the incident in February, when a laser projection appeared on the former home of Anne Frank claiming her diary was a hoax. The stunt gained international attention and condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Amsterdam police did not name the suspect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942315/san-diego-neo-nazi-suspected-in-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house\">citizen sleuths linked Wilson to the incident shortly after it occurred using digital forensic techniques\u003c/a>. The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors Wilson’s activity, believes he has been living in Poland since fleeing the U.S. to evade hate crime charges in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11942315 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63308_GettyImages-1149467364-qut-1020x680.jpg']On Tuesday morning, 41-year-old Wilson posted a video he took of several Polish police officers approaching his house. In the footage, he tells the officers in English, “I don’t do anything illegal. My lawyer told me not to open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the ADL identified Wilson as the man confronting police in the video posted Tuesday. They said they believe he was arrested shortly after it was filmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other extremists have since circulated the news of his arrest,” ADL West spokesperson Laura Fennell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a public-facing figure of the Goyim Defense League, a network of individuals in the U.S. who spread antisemitic and white supremacist messages online, as well as in person through flyer distributions, street demonstrations and banner drops. The group was responsible for more than 450 propaganda campaigns last year, according to the ADL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Canada, Wilson moved to Chula Vista in 2016. Then in 2021, he allegedly assaulted his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs at him and was charged with a hate crime. Before he could be prosecuted, he fled the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office has declined to say whether it is attempting to extradite Wilson to the U.S. It did not provide a comment on Wilson’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a photo circulated on social media showing Wilson at the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland along with the founder of the Goyim Defense League, Jon Minadeo. The two men were holding antisemitic signs outside the entrance, and the incident led to Minadeo’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League is known for spreading false conspiracy theories about Jews. Among other things, its members claim Jewish people are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and the 9/11 terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png\" alt='Two white men wearing sun glasses, a sleeveless t shirt and shorts hold signs while standing outside in the street with buildings to the left and trees to the right. The Signs read \"Shoah the ADL\" and \"Greenblatt suck 6 million dicks.\" A red circle is around the man on the left.' width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo showing Robert Wilson (left) and Jon Minadeo II, formerly of Petaluma, holding signs displaying antisemitic statements outside the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland went viral on social media in August 2022.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The laser projection that occurred on Feb. 6 referenced another antisemitic conspiracy theory — it claimed that Frank was the “inventor of the ballpoint pen.” The theory incorrectly alleges that Frank’s diary was a forgery because it was written with a ballpoint pen, which was not common in Europe until after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the projection, a video of the incident appeared in a chat on Telegram, a messaging app, that included members of the Goyim Defense League. The Anne Frank House organization, which runs a museum on the property, said at the time that they “learned of this with shock and revulsion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the organization said in a statement. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='extremism']Members of a citizen sleuth group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which was founded by a Netherlands resident, tied Wilson to the Anne Frank House incident using videos he posted in online channels. They provided evidence to police showing that he was in Amsterdam at the time of the projection and drew the route they believe he took to get there from Poland in the days prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their statement, written in Dutch, the Amsterdam police said they also settled on a suspect shortly after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the projection, the Amsterdam detective department started an investigation in which the suspect soon came into their sights,” the police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the suspect left for Poland “immediately after the laser-projection” and have been in close contact with the Polish authorities, the statement said. Amsterdam detectives traveled to Poland on Monday, joining Polish police during the search of the suspect’s home and the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Netherlands is in the process of requesting extradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor has requested the extradition of the suspect to the Polish authorities,” the statement said. “A decision will be made later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Experts with the Anti-Defamation League said Robert Wilson, a member of the Goyim Defense League hate group, was arrested in Poland on Tuesday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1682956513,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":897},"headData":{"title":"San Diego Neo-Nazi Arrested After Antisemitic Incident at Anne Frank House, ADL Says | KQED","description":"Experts with the Anti-Defamation League said Robert Wilson, a member of the Goyim Defense League hate group, was arrested in Poland on Tuesday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"inewsource","sourceUrl":"https://inewsource.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/author/jill-castellano/\">Jill Castellano\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11947952/san-diego-neo-nazi-arrested-after-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house-sources-say","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of an ongoing project of \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/\">inewsource\u003c/a> in San Diego, KQED and other NPR member stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ormer San Diego County resident Robert Wilson, a known neo-Nazi, was arrested Tuesday by Polish authorities on suspicion of projecting an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, according to experts who monitor extremist activity around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amsterdam police said a 41-year-old suspect was arrested in Poland after an investigation into the incident in February, when a laser projection appeared on the former home of Anne Frank claiming her diary was a hoax. The stunt gained international attention and condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Amsterdam police did not name the suspect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942315/san-diego-neo-nazi-suspected-in-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house\">citizen sleuths linked Wilson to the incident shortly after it occurred using digital forensic techniques\u003c/a>. The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors Wilson’s activity, believes he has been living in Poland since fleeing the U.S. to evade hate crime charges in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11942315","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63308_GettyImages-1149467364-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, 41-year-old Wilson posted a video he took of several Polish police officers approaching his house. In the footage, he tells the officers in English, “I don’t do anything illegal. My lawyer told me not to open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the ADL identified Wilson as the man confronting police in the video posted Tuesday. They said they believe he was arrested shortly after it was filmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other extremists have since circulated the news of his arrest,” ADL West spokesperson Laura Fennell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is a public-facing figure of the Goyim Defense League, a network of individuals in the U.S. who spread antisemitic and white supremacist messages online, as well as in person through flyer distributions, street demonstrations and banner drops. The group was responsible for more than 450 propaganda campaigns last year, according to the ADL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Canada, Wilson moved to Chula Vista in 2016. Then in 2021, he allegedly assaulted his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs at him and was charged with a hate crime. Before he could be prosecuted, he fled the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office has declined to say whether it is attempting to extradite Wilson to the U.S. It did not provide a comment on Wilson’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a photo circulated on social media showing Wilson at the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland along with the founder of the Goyim Defense League, Jon Minadeo. The two men were holding antisemitic signs outside the entrance, and the incident led to Minadeo’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League is known for spreading false conspiracy theories about Jews. Among other things, its members claim Jewish people are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and the 9/11 terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png\" alt='Two white men wearing sun glasses, a sleeveless t shirt and shorts hold signs while standing outside in the street with buildings to the left and trees to the right. The Signs read \"Shoah the ADL\" and \"Greenblatt suck 6 million dicks.\" A red circle is around the man on the left.' width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/minadeo-arrested-auschwitz-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo showing Robert Wilson (left) and Jon Minadeo II, formerly of Petaluma, holding signs displaying antisemitic statements outside the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland went viral on social media in August 2022.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The laser projection that occurred on Feb. 6 referenced another antisemitic conspiracy theory — it claimed that Frank was the “inventor of the ballpoint pen.” The theory incorrectly alleges that Frank’s diary was a forgery because it was written with a ballpoint pen, which was not common in Europe until after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the projection, a video of the incident appeared in a chat on Telegram, a messaging app, that included members of the Goyim Defense League. The Anne Frank House organization, which runs a museum on the property, said at the time that they “learned of this with shock and revulsion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the projection and the video the perpetrators are attacking the authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary and inciting hatred,” the organization said in a statement. “It is an antisemitic and racist film. We are acutely aware of what this means for the Jewish community and for the city of Amsterdam as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"extremism"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Members of a citizen sleuth group known as Capitol Terrorists Exposers, which was founded by a Netherlands resident, tied Wilson to the Anne Frank House incident using videos he posted in online channels. They provided evidence to police showing that he was in Amsterdam at the time of the projection and drew the route they believe he took to get there from Poland in the days prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their statement, written in Dutch, the Amsterdam police said they also settled on a suspect shortly after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the projection, the Amsterdam detective department started an investigation in which the suspect soon came into their sights,” the police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police believe the suspect left for Poland “immediately after the laser-projection” and have been in close contact with the Polish authorities, the statement said. Amsterdam detectives traveled to Poland on Monday, joining Polish police during the search of the suspect’s home and the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Netherlands is in the process of requesting extradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor has requested the extradition of the suspect to the Polish authorities,” the statement said. “A decision will be made later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11947952/san-diego-neo-nazi-arrested-after-antisemitic-incident-at-anne-frank-house-sources-say","authors":["byline_news_11947952"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_30822","news_24276","news_32415","news_29026","news_30202","news_4273","news_32404","news_21505","news_32418","news_19216","news_29025","news_32416","news_4486","news_31347"],"featImg":"news_11947964","label":"source_news_11947952"},"news_11940804":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11940804","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11940804","score":null,"sort":[1676379690000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tracing-the-bay-area-roots-of-a-neo-nazi-propaganda-group","title":"The Bay Area Roots of a Neo-Nazi Propaganda Group","publishDate":1676379690,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced in partnership with inewsource, a nonprofit news organization in San Diego. It is part of an ongoing project with inewsource and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story contains descriptions of antisemitic violence and speech.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n October, an antisemitic hate group hung a banner over a Los Angeles freeway. It read: “Kanye Is Right About the Jews.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people standing behind the banner gave Nazi salutes to cars speeding past on Interstate 405. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ADLSoCal/status/1584199722524213248\">Photos of the stunt went viral.\u003c/a>[aside label='READ MORE ABOUT WILSON' link1='https://inewsource.org/2023/02/14/antisemitic-extremist-evaded-hate-crime-prosecution/,Read coverage from inewsource about Robert Wilson, a public face of the hate group known as the Goyim Defense League, who was supposed to stand trial for allegedly assaulting his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs.' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-2-1020x571.png']Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f---ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the \"great replacement theory\" — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups, Western States Center\"]'There's no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence ... The GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They're often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.'[/pullquote]The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You'd hope that it never happens here. And then … '\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors' driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, 'Let's Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.' The back of the flyer reads, 'Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.' \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Minadeo, Wilson and a small group of supporters rented a U-Haul truck and covered it with antisemitic symbols and rhetoric. They drove to the Beverly Hilton, a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\">video posted on Twitter by StopAntisemitism\u003c/a>, a group that calls out \"antisemites\" to hold them accountable, two men dressed as members of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi paramilitary group colloquially known as the brownshirts, paraded around the truck. Minadeo, who is wearing a black hat with fake side curls shouts, “The Nazis are coming!” Wilson also appears in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Beverly Hills they drove to West Hollywood. “A group of Nazis have rampaged down Santa Monica Blvd from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood harassing Black people, gay people and Jewish people,” WeHo Social Justice Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528174801541419008\">tweeted in a video\u003c/a> that shows the U-Haul parked at a gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of queer activists \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528184993410781186\">posted another video of Wilson and Minadeo\u003c/a>, who wore a T-shirt with the Black Sun, a Nazi-era symbol now popular with neofascists, being confronted by onlookers. The pair allegedly harassed a Black woman at the gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you get the f--- out of here,” one man says. “This isn’t your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man says to Wilson, “You’re a racist!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson replies, “Who taught you people to read and write?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were concerned about the real-world consequences of online antisemitism long before 2018 when a man shouting antisemitic slurs entered the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 people. The perpetrator had been immersed in antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracies on Gab, and was posting on the site just minutes before he opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, a 19-year-old man killed one woman and wounded three others at a synagogue in San Diego County. He had posted an antisemitic and racist letter in an online forum claiming Jewish people were planning the replacement of white people by genocide, a conspiracy theory that led white nationalists to march through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not folks just making disparaging remarks about Jews on the internet and laughing about it,” Piggott said, referring to Minadeo and Wilson. “They’re showing to the world they’re truly committed to this by going into the streets and getting in the face of people and publicly harassing them with all sorts of horrendous slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can certainly lead to escalations and can lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913965 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg']According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Renfro, yoga studio owner\"]'You have to watch [the videos] to realize how evil they are. They were inciting violence. It really touched me at my core. I was like, 'I know somebody like this. I know this person. He's been over to my house.''[/pullquote]When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k---,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,\" he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jon Minadeo II created an antisemitic hate group responsible for viral stunts while living in Petaluma. 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It is part of an ongoing project with inewsource and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story contains descriptions of antisemitic violence and speech.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n October, an antisemitic hate group hung a banner over a Los Angeles freeway. It read: “Kanye Is Right About the Jews.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people standing behind the banner gave Nazi salutes to cars speeding past on Interstate 405. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ADLSoCal/status/1584199722524213248\">Photos of the stunt went viral.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"READ MORE ABOUT WILSON ","link1":"https://inewsource.org/2023/02/14/antisemitic-extremist-evaded-hate-crime-prosecution/,Read coverage from inewsource about Robert Wilson, a public face of the hate group known as the Goyim Defense League, who was supposed to stand trial for allegedly assaulting his neighbor while yelling homophobic slurs.","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Wilson-court-2-1020x571.png"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, had made a series of antisemitic remarks during interviews and in social media posts — comments immediately seized upon by the Goyim Defense League, the group that performed the hateful stunt and promoted its streaming platform GoyimTV on another banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the stunt took place in LA, the roots of the antisemitic propaganda group behind it lead back to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Minadeo II created the group in 2018 while living in Petaluma, the small town nestled in Sonoma County wine country about an hour north of San Francisco. Once an aspiring rapper and movie star, Minadeo began building an online following through GoyimTV, a business he described as “informative educational entertainment” in papers filed with the state in 2021. The channel has thousands of followers on Gab, a social media app popular with white nationalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo, 40, increasingly preaches antisemitism in public, too. The banner on the 405 was just one of several recent exploits he used to drive more people to GoyimTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Minadeo attracted international attention when he traveled to Poland, where he was arrested at Auschwitz, the death camp where Nazis killed more than 1.1 million Jewish people. Beside him was Robert Wilson, a frequent public stunt partner who refers to himself as Aryan Bacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/108898845307282314\">photo posted to Gab\u003c/a>, Wilson smiles and Minadeo smirks as he holds up a sign attacking Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate organization dedicated to combating the denigration of Jewish people. According to reporting by Gabe Stutman, news editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, after the stunt Minadeo \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2022/09/04/polish-police-arrest-minadeo-during-white-supremacist-tour-of-europe/\">ranted that the Holocaust was a “f---ing hoax” and referred to the ADL as “an anti white terrorist organization” on Gab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media has provided the perfect conditions for a surge of antisemitism. Minadeo is a player in a world of far-right influencers who spread hatred of Jews and other extreme ideology on the internet, like Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-antisemitism.html\">had dinner with Ye and former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent far-right politician, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mask-mandates-holocaust/index.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">compared a mask mandate to restrictions Nazis imposed on Jews during the Holocaust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an ADL \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings\"> survey of Americans published last month\u003c/a>, more than three-quarters — 85% — believe at least one anti-Jewish trope, such as Jewish people “stick together,” don’t share American values and hold too much power and influence in the world. That’s up 24 percentage points from three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sentiments are echoed in another antisemitic notion: that a secret cabal of Jewish people controls the world, a belief widely shared by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Goyim Defense League’s network is relatively small compared to those of other extremist groups in the United States, but people who monitor extremism say aggressive harassment of Jews and the perpetuation of the \"great replacement theory\" — a racist, conspiratorial narrative that white populations are covertly being replaced — has emboldened white supremacists and neo-Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There's no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence ... The GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They're often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups, Western States Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Bay Area is where Minadeo began spreading neo-Nazi propaganda, by placing antisemitic flyers on car windshields and driveways in Santa Rosa, Novato, Petaluma, Oakland and Berkeley, among other cities. In the past year, thousands of flyers linked to the Goyim Defense League and containing conspiracy theories have appeared across the country, from California to Minnesota to Wisconsin and to Florida, where Minadeo is currently agitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Berkeley yoga studio owner’s effort to spread awareness about Minadeo may have contributed to why Minadeo left the Bay Area late last year. Nothing, though, has stopped him from spreading hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo typically starts his livestreams by proclaiming, “Let’s expose these Jewish lies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent broadcast, Minadeo sported a white linen jacket, sunglasses and a gold chain with a swastika pendant. He raised his right, outstretched arm with the palm of his hand flat and pointed downward. The salute is arguably the most recognizable — and appropriated — symbol of Nazism besides the swastika, an ancient religious symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shock-jock broadcasts include antisemitic diatribes, racist memes and mash-ups of footage of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime that purposefully guided the genocide of 6 million Jewish people. Minadeo also baits young people on platforms like Omegle by engaging Jewish, LGBTQ or BIPOC teenagers in conversation by pretending to accept them before shouting racist, homophobic insults until they exit the chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet service providers have tried to curb GoyimTV’s reach. The channel has been kicked off the internet several times, but each time, streaming resumed on a new server within a matter of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo reads viewer comments from people who donate, raising hundreds of dollars during each livestream, and has extended his reach by encouraging followers to distribute antisemitic flyers, which can be downloaded from his site for free. Some of the flyers feature Jewish politicians and business leaders with the Star of David emblazoned on their foreheads, a crude reminder of the dehumanizing persecution of Jewish people who were forced to wear identifying badges during the Holocaust. “These flyers were distributed randomly without malicious intent,” a disclaimer at the bottom of the flyers reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo instructs viewers on how to clandestinely distribute the flyers and promises a free T-shirt to anyone who gets news coverage for their flyer drops. He shares videos from those who spread hate, including one that shows a person driving around an unidentified neighborhood while tossing flyers onto lawns. Another appears to be taken by a woman as she walks through a parking lot, placing flyers on car windshields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg\" alt=\"middle-aged white woman with blonde hair sits at a desk looking intently into her laptop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/ADL-Teresa-Drenick-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Drenick, deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region for the Anti-Defamation League, in her office. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ADL has closely monitored the flyering incidents. In 2022, the ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded at least 454 incidents linked to Minadeo’s organization, a 513% increase from the 74 incidents the previous year. In total, flyers were distributed in 42 states and Washington, D.C., according to a preliminary count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Drenick, the ADL’s deputy regional director for the Central Pacific Region, said the flyers are meant to cause fear and distress in the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s psychological damage,” said Drenick, a former Alameda County assistant district attorney. “There’s intimidation, and there’s fear that is stirred within the neighborhood, within the community, within the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You'd hope that it never happens here. And then … '\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Barbara Winter was shocked when she found a flyer in February 2022 in the driveway of her home in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flyer, which also listed the names of Jewish public health officials and drug company executives. At the bottom was a GoyimTV logo, which looks a lot like a swastika.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter and her husband, Mordechai Winter, were disgusted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family comes from Europe and I was born in China,” he said. “I’m a refugee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mordechai’s father fled Poland in 1939, finding refuge in Shanghai. His mother left Vienna in November 1938, after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The organized violence was a tactic to expel Jews from territories and countries occupied by German forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d hope that it never happens here,” Mordechai said of Tiburon, an affluent town perched on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. “And then you have little bumps like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older middle-aged white couple stand outdoors in an affluent-looking neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61965_006_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara and Mordechai Winter stand in their driveway in Tiburon, where they had found an antisemitic flyer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winter reported the flyer to police, who weren’t as surprised as she was. “They knew about it,” she said. “I wasn’t the first person that called them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies throughout the state have investigated numerous Goyim Defense League flyering incidents, but KQED hasn’t found any that resulted in prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Nilsen, the public information officer for the Tiburon Police Department, said officers conducted an investigation. “We collected as much evidence as we could, and we went to the DA’s office and spoke to them about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Frugoli, Marin County’s district attorney, determined the flyer was protected by the First Amendment. “This is infuriating and repugnant, and we reject this hateful behavior,” she said in a press release last year. “Such as they are, the messages in these flyers were intentionally designed and distributed in a manner that is protected as free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at his kitchen counter nearly a year after receiving the flyer, Mordechai said he understood the DA’s decision, but he also feels the flyers are disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t exactly yelling ‘fire’ in a theater,” he said. “[But] it’s not harmless. It’s very offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a photo of a black and white flyer contained in a zip lock bag\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS61962_004_KQED_TiburonAntiSemiticFlyer_01122023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mordechai Winter holds a photo on his phone of an antisemitic flyer left in his driveway and several of his neighbors' driveways in Tiburon. The front of the flyer reads, 'Let's Go Brandon: Every Single Aspect of the Biden Administration Is Jewish.' The back of the flyer reads, 'Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish.' \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few local governments have found creative ways to exert pressure on people who distribute the flyers. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department \u003ca href=\"https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/kenosha-police-identify-cite-man-who-had-distributed-anti-semitic-fliers-in-city/\">invoked a local littering ordinance to make an arrest after successfully identifying fingerprints on a Goyim Defense League flyer\u003c/a>, according to the Wisconsin Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about the police approach in Kenosha, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MitzvahMaya/status/1558099443114577921?s=20&t=KGTSSUJeb5zmQ74C7VSpZQ\">a Twitter user lambasted Marin County officials\u003c/a>: “How come you can’t manage to do the same with flyers that are constantly being distributed all over Marin County?! You know who is responsible. We all do. Jon Minadeo Jr., Goyim Defense League. Do your jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, after a man put up dozens of stickers in downtown Fairfax of a large black swastika and the words, “We are everywhere,” Mark Solomons helped form the group Name, Oppose and Abolish Hate in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much as I’m enraged at and upset at seeing a flyer like, ‘We are everywhere,’ I was really shocked that the DA was not able to do anything about it,” Solomons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His group has pushed for the creation of a county hate crime task force, and advocated for the state to strengthen hate crime laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282\">Assembly Bill 2282\u003c/a>, which expands the locations where a swastika, a burning cross or a noose are prohibited to include K–12 schools and colleges, cemeteries, places of worship or employment, private property and public parks, spaces and facilities. While AB 2282 doesn’t prohibit Goyim Defense League’s use of flyers because they don’t include swastikas or make specific threats of violence, Solomons said the new law is encouraging at a time when a lot of things are discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, we’ve been fighting — those people that are older. Now we have to fight for the things we already won,” said Solomons, referring to the push to eliminate religious persecution. “Some of us have to keep slogging on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly has written resolutions condemning the flyers. It’s symbolic, but Connolly said it’s important to take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know who’s doing this,” he said. “It’s a small, fringe, right-wing group. It certainly does not speak for the community at large. That having been said, it is in our midst and it’s impacting our neighbors, our Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As these incidents increase, I think the response, the awareness, the education, the push against [it] also has to increase,” Connolly added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stephen Piggott, researcher of white nationalism and antidemocracy groups for the Western States Center, a pro-democracy organization monitoring extremism in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States, said the Goyim Defense League’s public antics make its hateful message more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that hate speech leads to an increase in hate violence,” said Piggott. “I think we must be clear that the GDL are not simply these keyboard warriors. They’re often engaging in real-world bigotry and threatening behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Minadeo, Wilson and a small group of supporters rented a U-Haul truck and covered it with antisemitic symbols and rhetoric. They drove to the Beverly Hilton, a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1528183552029990912\">video posted on Twitter by StopAntisemitism\u003c/a>, a group that calls out \"antisemites\" to hold them accountable, two men dressed as members of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi paramilitary group colloquially known as the brownshirts, paraded around the truck. Minadeo, who is wearing a black hat with fake side curls shouts, “The Nazis are coming!” Wilson also appears in the video.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1528183552029990912"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Beverly Hills they drove to West Hollywood. “A group of Nazis have rampaged down Santa Monica Blvd from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood harassing Black people, gay people and Jewish people,” WeHo Social Justice Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528174801541419008\">tweeted in a video\u003c/a> that shows the U-Haul parked at a gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of queer activists \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/wehosjc/status/1528184993410781186\">posted another video of Wilson and Minadeo\u003c/a>, who wore a T-shirt with the Black Sun, a Nazi-era symbol now popular with neofascists, being confronted by onlookers. The pair allegedly harassed a Black woman at the gas station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you get the f--- out of here,” one man says. “This isn’t your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man says to Wilson, “You’re a racist!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson replies, “Who taught you people to read and write?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers were concerned about the real-world consequences of online antisemitism long before 2018 when a man shouting antisemitic slurs entered the Tree of Life Congregation, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 people. The perpetrator had been immersed in antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracies on Gab, and was posting on the site just minutes before he opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, on the last day of the Jewish Passover holiday, a 19-year-old man killed one woman and wounded three others at a synagogue in San Diego County. He had posted an antisemitic and racist letter in an online forum claiming Jewish people were planning the replacement of white people by genocide, a conspiracy theory that led white nationalists to march through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not folks just making disparaging remarks about Jews on the internet and laughing about it,” Piggott said, referring to Minadeo and Wilson. “They’re showing to the world they’re truly committed to this by going into the streets and getting in the face of people and publicly harassing them with all sorts of horrendous slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That can certainly lead to escalations and can lead to violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11913965","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the ADL’s Center for Extremism, \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2022-05/ADL_2021%20Audit_Report_042622_v11.pdf\">there were more than 2,700 incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the highest tabulation since the organization began tracking four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this month in San Francisco, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including religious terrorism for allegedly brandishing a replica handgun and firing blanks inside a synagogue. The man, Dmitri Mishin, shared photos of himself in Nazi uniforms on social media and posted other antisemitic content online prior to his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADL has identified supporters of Minadeo’s network who have been charged with or convicted of crimes such as arson, assault and making death threats. One man, who distributed antisemitic flyers in Florida, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/02/04/3-arrested-after-violence-at-nazi-rally-in-orange-county-deputies-say/\">arrested at a Nazi rally last February for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man\u003c/a>. He also faced charges for allegedly pointing a gun at a group of Black men in a parking lot that same month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man filmed himself plastering GoyimTV stickers on public streets and buildings in Texas. In July 2021, he messaged the ADL’s website threatening to “kill all of you Zionist pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo and Wilson’s Auschwitz stunt would not be considered criminal in the United States. But Poland has stronger laws governing hate speech, specifically the banning of “hatred against national, ethnic, racial or religious differences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, of Chula Vista, a city in the San Diego metropolitan area, wasn’t arrested alongside Minadeo in Poland. But he’s currently evading charges of felony battery and a hate crime allegation for yelling homophobic slurs at his neighbor and striking him in the face in November 2021. On Aug. 19, a judge issued a warrant for Wilson’s arrest after he failed to show up for court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Petaluma yoga studio owner exposes Minadeo\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s no clear indication of why Minadeo became a perpetrator of hate speech. He refused to comment on the record in an hour-long conversation with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went to high school in the northern Marin County city of Novato, where he lived with his mother in a series of inexpensive apartments, according to public records. For a time, he worked for the family business, Dinucci’s Italian Dinners, a mainstay in Valley Ford, a town in an unincorporated section of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dabbled in show business. According to imdb.com, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981622/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk\">he co-wrote and starred in \u003cem>Curveball\u003c/em>, a low-budget 2011 comedic drama about a love triangle\u003c/a>. He also released rap songs under the name Shoobie Da Wop, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pufs_Ertcwo\">My Name Is Shoobie\u003c/a>,” a song that borrows liberally from Too $hort, a Bay Area hip-hop legend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with a KQED reporter, a former high school classmate of Minadeo described him as “the popular, cool guy.” But the classmate, a longtime Petaluma resident, thinks differently after watching a few of Minadeo’s livestreams. He was particularly disturbed by the way Minadeo uses Omegle, a website that randomly pairs strangers for video chats, to scream slurs at children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting for the day when they can get him with something,” said the former classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retaliation. “At least sue him or take his website down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You have to watch [the videos] to realize how evil they are. They were inciting violence. It really touched me at my core. I was like, 'I know somebody like this. I know this person. He's been over to my house.''","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jeff Renfro, yoga studio owner","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro met Minadeo in 2013, he said he found him a little awkward. Renfro and his wife, Lynn Whitlow, own Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, where a woman engaged to Minadeo at the time, Kelly Johnson, worked as a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro, who is Jewish, wasn’t aware of Minadeo’s antisemitic beliefs. He said he initially bonded with Johnson and Minadeo because all three were recovering from substance use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Renfro and Whitlow offered to make Johnson a partner in the purchase of a new studio, Hella Yoga in Berkeley. According to Renfro, Minadeo loaned Johnson $50,000 to purchase an ownership stake and often came to the studio to help with renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Renfro noticed a change in the couple during the pandemic. Minadeo refused to get vaccinated, and was no longer allowed inside the studio. Instead, Renfro said, he would sit in his car and vape for hours while Johnson taught classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who seemed distracted and distant, started making offensive comments. In 2021, she said something that really shook Renfro. After Johnson returned from visiting her mother, he asked how her flight went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘I had to sit down next to these — they were like these smelly Jews wearing one of those hats and stuff,’” Renfro recalled. It struck a nerve. “When someone says they sat next to dirty, ‘smelly Jews’ on the airplane and you’re Jewish, you don’t forget that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close-up portrait of a middle aged white man standing in a doorway, with one hand on the red-painted door frame\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62606_02032023_jeffrenfro-038-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petaluma resident Jeff Renfro stands at the entrance to Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley, which he co-owns. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Minadeo’s name online, and found the GoyimTV site selling Hitler T-shirts, including one that read, “Auschwitz was a country club.” Then he watched dozens of Minadeo’s videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to watch them to realize how evil they are. And also they were inciting violence,” Renfro said. “It really touched me at my core. I was like, ‘I know somebody like this. I know this person. He’s been over to my house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro searched Johnson’s work computer and found paperwork she apparently filed to incorporate GoyimTV. He confronted Johnson, but she denied knowledge of Minadeo’s activities. Last March, when news reports identified her connection to Minadeo, Renfro fired Johnson, bought her stake in the yoga studio and closed the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To expose Minadeo, Renfro said he contacted the FBI, the ADL and several Bay Area journalists. After articles featuring his name were published, Renfro said he received threatening phone calls from people. He was called an “[N-word] lover” and told to watch his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kill you, k---,” one person said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro also received calls of support. One woman, who said she was imprisoned at Auschwitz when she was 6, told him the flyers were terrifying. The woman became so scared she didn’t want to leave her house, Renfro recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Minadeo played a video during a livestream to announce that he was leaving California. “My time in this state is over,\" he said. The rest of the announcement played like a theatrical trailer replete with scenes of angry reactions to his stunts. The video culminates with ominous music that punctuates the words that scrawl across the screen: “California was just the beginning” and “Florida you’re next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minadeo has been delivering on that promise. On Jan. 23, he \u003ca href=\"https://gab.com/HandsomeTruth/posts/109741203088175009\">spoke at an Orlando City Council meeting\u003c/a>, identifying himself as a Jewish, LGBTQ advocate named Tammy Cohen. Wearing heavy eyeshadow and a yarmulke, he read several GDL flyers. He said that instead of demonizing the people who distribute them, Jews should admit that the flyers are “factual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Minadeo and four others were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-neo-nazi-jon-minadeo-cited-for-littering-with-flyers-in-florida/\">cited in Palm Beach for littering after “they were apprehended tossing weighted baggies containing propaganda sheets targeting Jews,”\u003c/a> according to The Press Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renfro has reached out to groups in Florida to warn them about Minadeo. Tracking his whereabouts has become like a second job, he said, and he won’t stop just because Minadeo left California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I watch what he does, it’s like not really a choice,” Renfro said. “You can’t ignore it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11940804/tracing-the-bay-area-roots-of-a-neo-nazi-propaganda-group","authors":["6625","244"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_25693","news_24276","news_18538","news_29026","news_30202","news_27626","news_4273","news_32404","news_3729","news_21528","news_21025"],"featImg":"news_11940834","label":"news"},"news_11915634":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11915634","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11915634","score":null,"sort":[1654174836000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges","title":"Why High-Profile Attacks on SF's Asian Communities Rarely Lead to Hate Crime Charges","publishDate":1654174836,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a partnership between \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains photos, links to videos, embedded videos and textual descriptions depicting hateful violence against members of San Francisco's Asian communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] month before the pandemic hit California, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1233158095515185152\">a video\u003c/a> went viral on social media showing an older Asian man crying. A crowd surrounded him to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified in Chinese media as “Mr. Zhou” and in court documents as “Ximing Z.,” was walking his usual route through San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood on Feb. 22, 2020, collecting recyclables to trade in for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that particular Saturday, as Zhou, then 68, made his way to the small, one-block stretch of Osceola Lane, he was attacked and robbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 20-year-old, Dwayne Grayson, stood nearby, capturing the incident on his cellphone in footage that later would be viewed by millions as it made the rounds online and on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson can be heard\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbufWls8QRM\"> on the video saying\u003c/a>, “I hate Asians, n— [N-word].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a time of rising hate against Asian communities. Just two days before the attack on Zhou, 84-year-old Rong Xin Liao \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-attack-sf-stop-hate-aapi/10449226/\">was assaulted\u003c/a>. Liao still isn’t sure why someone knocked him to the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible because I am Asian, or I am disabled, so I got picked on,” Liao told The San Francisco Standard in mid-May. He was waiting at a bus stop in the Tenderloin neighborhood, when 22-year-old Eric Ramos-Hernandez was recorded on camera jump-kicking Liao to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2021, Thai immigrant Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, was killed after being forcefully shoved to the ground during his morning walk in San Francisco. The violent incident was caught on video and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/magazine/vicha-ratanapakdee.html\">shocked the world\u003c/a>. Ratanapakdee later became the public face of the movement demanding justice and safety for Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratanapakdee’s daughter, Monthanus Ratanapakdee, told The SF Standard that she believed the fatal violence was “racially motivated” because the pandemic has flared up the hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these cases, which attracted a huge wave of media coverage, were among many across the country igniting the national Stop Asian Hate movement. But that hate is rarely reflected in criminal charges, in part because it can be hard to prove an attacker was motivated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard partnered to review a dozen high-profile criminal cases in San Francisco involving Asian and Asian American victims during 2020 and 2021 to unpack the essence of the fear from Asian communities — that the crimes are racially motivated — while shining a light on the aftermath of incidents that quickly enter the public consciousness and then fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 12 cases, many were initially investigated as hate crimes, but only two were eventually charged as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, five of the 12 defendants have entered mental health diversion programs, meaning the criminal prosecution may be suspended based on the treatment results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 12 are pending, languishing in a court system still reeling from the pandemic. In recent weeks, Black and Asian community leaders have called on law enforcement to push for hate crime enhancements to stem the tide of anti-Asian hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the dozen reviewed cases, even where alternatives to incarceration were pursued, the promises of that process were ultimately unfulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#12cases\">12 high-profile criminal cases reviewed by The SF Standard and KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2020 and 2021, anger over these crimes helped fuel an effort to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. According to a poll conducted by Embold Research for The SF Standard in May, a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/asian-american-voters-support-recall-da-chesa-boudin/\">greater percentage of Asian American voters\u003c/a> support the recall against Boudin than any other ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While community discussion between Black and Asian leaders has sometimes centered on increasing hate crime charges in San Francisco, other Black leaders say that locking people up only harms communities in the long run, perpetuating a cycle of mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, more data collection about hate incidents may lead to better community protection. A new state bill may make that information gathering mandatory if it is ultimately signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A crime victim looks for healing instead of prosecution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Zhou, the man assaulted while collecting recyclables, lives on the edge — like so many other Asian immigrants in San Francisco who can’t or won’t get government aid, whose limited English makes job-hunting difficult, and who lift blue lids in neighborhoods across the city to sustain themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News reports said Zhou’s experience before the attack in the Hunters Point neighborhood was largely warm and welcoming. In a historically Black neighborhood all-too-familiar with living on the margins, residents would often go out of their way to ensure Zhou’s plastic garbage bag was filled to bursting with discarded cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also a neighborhood with a growing Asian population, leading to some animus between the communities. Those raw feelings have become all too public of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent San Francisco redistricting meeting in City Hall, anger exploded between Asian and Black residents of southeast San Francisco, debating which communities should be granted more representation in a new map of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You say you have solidarity with us when you call us racists, and Nazis, and corporate shills?” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcbJeK9OVrA/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">said Drew Min, executive director at San Francisco Community Alliance for Unity, Safety, and Education, speaking to the Black community\u003c/a>. He was speaking at a lectern during public comment on the redistricting process, but called out what he saw as a lack of community solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have the guts to speak up for our people, when your people say something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the audience yelled in anger. “He says there’s going to be a new [District 10], that’s what he said. There’s going to be a new D10,” cried out one woman, speaking to the idea of one community being replaced by another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sentiments have long simmered in San Francisco. For years, community institutions like the Cameron House in Chinatown and Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition have tried to bridge the gaps between Asian and Black people in their respective neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with rising attacks against the AAPI community leading up to and during the pandemic, those tensions came to the fore again in public discussions of hateful incidents. That brings us back to 2020, as an Asian man is thrust into the spotlight as he collects cans in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou’s attacker, Jonathan Amerson, 56, was recorded standing by a pile of Zhou’s trash bags. He swung at Zhou with what on video looks like a garbage picker, as a crowd looked on. Amerson then allegedly took Zhou’s cart of recycling bags, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police later arrested both Amerson and Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Grayson — the young man who filmed the incident, mocked Zhou, and expressed his hatred in clear terms — the handling of prosecution was more complex since he wasn’t directly involved in the attack; he only recorded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Chesa-Boudin-crime-video-Bayview-Asian-attack-DA-15099780.php#taboola-1\">dropped charges against Grayson\u003c/a> to pursue a more rehabilitation-oriented alternative to traditional prosecution — at Zhou’s request — the media followed closely, framing the story in a way that suggested Boudin was letting Grayson off too easily, even though he was not one of the attackers. Some headlines were misleading, often claiming “charges dropped” against a suspect in the attack, leading many to think charges were dropped against Amerson, the attacker, not Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED’s Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on stage at KQED in May, Boudin defended his decision on Grayson, saying recording the attack against Zhou without intervening was “not a good thing,” and his behavior was \"offensive, horrific, racist, disrespectful\" — but “not criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913102 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Chesa2-1020x678.jpg']Brooke Jenkins, a former assistant district attorney who is now a spokesperson for the recall effort against Boudin, is also a former hate crimes prosecutor in the DA’s office. She said hate crime charges could have been pursued in Zhou’s case using the hateful slur captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my view, in that case, it did meet the bar,” Jenkins said. “There were statements that made the intentions very clear, and [made] the motivations very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson and Zhou ultimately did not participate in a restorative justice process together, as they initially intended. That process would’ve seen the two men reconcile their differences, sitting together and talking out what happened. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/restorative-justice/\">In their description of the goal of the San Francisco Restorative Justice Collaborative\u003c/a>, the DA’s office specifically points to the method as a practice to encourage multiracial consensus, and global racial solidarity, particularly aiming to repair the relationship between Asian American and African American communities in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, it was a process designed to address moments of hate just like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, authorities steered Grayson into another restorative justice path: neighborhood courts. It’s known as a “diversion” program that focuses on rehabilitation and urges participants to take accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou and Grayson couldn’t be reached for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amerson, who was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, was released on his own recognizance with a GPS-tracked ankle monitor. His case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Amerson lacked a permanent home when he was arrested for attacking Zhou. He was “mostly transient,” his attorney wrote in a 2020 declaration to the court. Only after his arrest was he able to secure housing, his lawyer wrote, and has been “doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Boudin touts hate-crime charges, even when he's dropped them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The question of when to charge hate crimes has become a source of contention in the recall election against Boudin. In his own defense, Boudin’s current \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1524906812952047617\">pinned Tweet\u003c/a> highlights a video quoting The San Francisco Chronicle, “ ... beating of Asian father was a hate crime, Boudin decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg\" alt='A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad features a San Francisco Chronicle article saying, \"beating of Asian Father as a hate crime, Boudin Decides.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad featuring a San Francisco Chronicle article. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chesa No on H campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a review of court records by The SF Standard and KQED shows the hate crime he charged against suspect Sidney Hammond, who allegedly assaulted an Asian American father with a baby stroller on April 30, 2021, were eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office verified as much and explained that, after charging, they received additional evidence that did not support hate crime charges, including a San Francisco police officer stating in a report that the incidents were not hate motivated. As such, the office was “ethically obligated” to dismiss the hate crime enhancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And no hate-related charges were pursued against the suspect who kicked Liao out of his walker in the Tenderloin. According to the latest court documents, Ramos-Hernandez has been referred to mental health treatment and was released with a GPS tracking monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect pushing Ratanapakdee to death, Antoine Watson, remains in custody and is charged with murder. No hate crime-related charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, who is one of Boudin’s toughest critics, pointed out the importance of charging hate crimes but also acknowledged that hate crimes are notoriously difficult to charge because they hinge on proving intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you feel like you’re being targeted for that reason, they want to feel vindicated,” said Jenkins. She added that victims of the crime want to see charges that truly capture and reflect the “full scope of someone's conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hate crimes are “one of the only charges that require the DA’s office to prove motive for the underlying crime,” she said. In other words, it requires that someone has made a verbal expression regarding the victim’s identity, or shows a clear pattern of targeting over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two cases with hate crime charges, among the dozen reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard, and both of them reflect those patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A serial vandalism suspect, Derik Barreto, was charged by DA Boudin for nearly 30 counts of hate crimes as he allegedly targeted Asian-owned businesses, breaking their windows. Barreto provided a lengthy interview with the police explicitly saying he had some delusions “around the surveillance capabilities of Chinese,” court documents reveal. In this case, Barreto verbally admitted targeting Chinese-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge in the case ordered Barreto to be released, even though the DA’s office opposed the decision. After missing his court date, he’s now facing a bench warrant arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other case where hate crime charges emerged involved a suspect robbing multiple Asian women. The suspect, O’Sean Garcia, allegedly showed a pattern of targeting victims with the same racial identity. Garcia was released, too, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the DA’s office showed that a total of 20 cases included hate crime charges in 2021, both standalone misdemeanors and hate crime enhancements, which are tacked onto felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many of those 20 cases in 2021 are categorized as anti-Asian as opposed to hate directed toward other identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not every hateful incident is a crime, as the California Attorney General’s Office laid out in a memo explaining the difference between the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Constitution allows hate speech as long as it does not interfere with the civil rights of others,” the office\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\"> wrote in the advisory\u003c/a>. “While these acts are certainly hurtful, they do not rise to the level of criminal violations and thus may not be prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Solving hate through community — and data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In mid-May, leaders from San Francisco’s Asian and Black communities came together at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition to urge authorities to pursue more hate crime charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is every human being’s birthright,” SFPD Capt. Yulanda Williams said. “Exploitation of our Asian-Pacific Islander community will no longer be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two Asian men and a Black woman sit at a long white table in a church's gymnasium, facing left, speaking to a crowd off-camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Captain Yulanda Williams, speaking in her capacity as a civilian, addresses anti-AAPI hate crimes at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on May 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That joint press conference between Black and Asian leaders at Third Baptist Church was convened with the idea that the Black community needed to stand in solidarity with Asian people in calling for more hate crime enhancements, upping the charges suspects face. But Tinisch Hollins, head of Californians for Safety and Justice, said sometimes people react to crime with efforts that ultimately perpetuate racism, and racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a very real sentiment that there are populations of individuals who cause problems and make the city and community unsafe and less desirable,” Hollins said. “And Black people, specifically Black men and boys, are at the top of that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the high-profile cases reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard feature a mix of suspects, across ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While public discussion around Asian communities frequently references the need for more safety — pushing that word, \"safety,\" in particular — Hollins said that can be a societally palatable code for pushing out Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Public safety’ right now, I feel like it’s a very covert way of naming it,” she said. It also focuses solutions on incarceration instead of giving mental health help, housing and education to people who may need it in order to reduce incentives for crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, research shows that steeper charges — which hate crime enhancements would bring — and longer sentencing don’t reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnus Lofstrom, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/proposition-47s-impact-on-racial-disparity-in-criminal-justice-outcomes-june-2020.pdf\">his research on Proposition 47\u003c/a>, which reduced some felony thefts and drug offenses to misdemeanors, has shown that reducing prison populations doesn’t lead to a rise in violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins was raised in the Bayview, near where Zhou was attacked, and said she wasn’t surprised that initial attempts to make peace between Zhou and Grayson bore no fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we at all agreed that there are better ways to resolve the kind of social conflicts that come up in our communities, especially when racial tensions are involved,” she said, “you might have a lot more buy-in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both hate crimes and hate incidents are significantly underreported, Lofstrom added. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant communities face particular barriers to reporting due to insufficient language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underreporting is a phenomenon state officials are trying to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='stop-aapi-hate']Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, authored AB 1947, which would require California law enforcement agencies to standardize data collection on hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting frequently touts San Bernardino as an example of lax data collection. In 2021 the Southern California county didn’t report a single hate crime. “And in a population so large, given everything that’s going on, it’s really hard to believe,” Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting that data is especially important, Ting said, so communities can be level-headed about real threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often with law enforcement, with public safety, we’re driven by fear,” Ting said, “and we’re driven by anecdotal stories and anecdotal incidents and not really by trends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of incidents are top of mind for Rita Sinha, a 67-year-old South Asian immigrant living in the SoMa neighborhood for 10 years, who said she already feels less safe in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used to visit churches like Glide Memorial, libraries, parks, grocery stores and medical facilities, she said, “without fear of being robbed or assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, however, “It’s very scary when you walk outside,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting’s bill passed the Assembly at the end of May. While data may one day drive solutions, for now fear remains persuasive.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"12cases\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>High-profile assaults against the AAPI community, revisited\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard revisited these 12 high-profile assaults against Asian people in San Francisco in 2020 and 2021, checking the status of those cases in court, following AAPI community concern over the prosecution of hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>84-year-old man assaulted — suspect released after mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg\" alt=\"An older man seen here in a black jacket and sunglasses, with a pond behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1020x1203.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1303x1536.jpg 1303w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1737x2048.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rong Xin Liao was viciously kicked out of his seated walker onto the ground in San Francisco's Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Franciscans for Public Safety Supporting the Recall of Chesa Boudin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On February 20, 2020, Rong Xin Liao, an immigrant and senior, was kicked to the ground while he was waiting at a bus stop, standing with his walker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, was arrested and charged with assault and inflicting injury on an elder. He was initially placed on mental health diversion and released, later switched to behavioral health court, and recently released, in early April 2022. His next court date is in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Senior collecting recycling robbed and assaulted — suspect released, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1233158095515185152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, right before the pandemic, a 68-year-old Asian man was robbed and assaulted in Hunters Point while collecting recycling cans to resell. The incident was recorded and posted on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Dwayne Grayson, who recorded the video and made anti-Asian statements in the recording, and Jonathan Amerson, who swung what appeared to be a garbage picker at the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson’s charges were dropped at the request of the victim, who asked for a restorative justice approach. Amerson was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, both felonies. He’s been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The killing of Kelvin Chew — pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a young man's face, his expression is neutral and he is wearing glasses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-1020x579.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-1536x872.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelvin Chew, 19, was gunned down while having a walk outside his home on May 7, 2020, in a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting. The police arrested two suspects, Fagamalama Pasene and Zion Young; both are charged with murder. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chew family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/kelvin-chew-memorial-fundraiser\">Kelvin Chew\u003c/a>, 19, was gunned down while walking outside his home in the Portola District on May 7, 2020, in a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting. Police arrested two suspects, Fagamalama Pasene and Zion Young. Both are charged with murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial of the case is believed to start soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The killing of Grandpa Vicha — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lihanlihan/status/1432081076080427012\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On January 28, 2021, 84-year-old Thai man Vicha Ratanapakdee was knocked to the pavement and killed in San Francisco's Anza Vista neighborhood. The incident was caught on camera, galvanizing the national Stop Asian Hate movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Antoine Watson, was arrested and charged with murder and is pending trial. The next court date is June 14, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The grandma who fought back — suspect in mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie.jpg\" alt=\"A senior woman, who is Asian, poses for a photo in a red and white striped shirt, she has an injured eye and face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 'Asian Grandma' Xiao Zhen Xie fought back her attacker, becoming an international news topic. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Xie family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, 74-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie's story became international news and raised more than $1 million after a video showed that she fought back against her alleged attacker, Steve Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dad with baby stroller assaulted — hate crime charges dropped\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage shows a man on the ground during as he is attacked.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from an incident on April 30, 2021, when an Asian father with a baby stroller was assaulted in front of a grocery store. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes. Later the charges were dropped.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 30, 2021, an Asian father with a baby stroller \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-hate-crime-man-attacked-grocery-store-sf/10575684/\">was assaulted in front of a grocery store\u003c/a>. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes, and later the charges were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammond remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Two senior women stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chui Fong Eng, 85 (left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Run Qin Xie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 5, 2021, two elder Asian women, including 85-year-old Chui Fong Eng, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills\">were stabbed in broad daylight in a downtown bus station\u003c/a>. The incident in the Tenderloin neighborhood was caught on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Patrick Thompson, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He remains in custody and the case is pending trial. Thompson has a history of mental health issues, according to news reports, and previously went through mental health diversion programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital assaults\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital.jpg\" alt=\"A hospital walkway is seen at the top of the frame as people walk through the area in front of San Francisco General Hospital in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through San Francisco General Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 24, 2021, Angelina Balenzuela allegedly assaulted two Asian American women staff members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. According to court documents, Balenzuela spat on one victim and called her a “bitch,” then pulled the hair of another victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balenzuela was arrested and the case was initially investigated as a hate crime, but hate crime charges were not brought. Balenzuela was released later and failed to show up at court. The court has revoked the release decision and issued a bench warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chinatown officer attacked — suspect in mental health treatment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1399209097946288128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2021, an SFPD officer was attacked on Kearny Street in Chinatown by the suspect she was trying to arrest, Gerardo Contreras. The incident was caught on video and went viral. It was initially investigated as a hate crime by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras remains in custody since his arrest and was placed in a mental health treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>94-year-old woman stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg\" alt=\"A split screen shot of an older woman, the left of her in a hospital bed, the right of her standing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1536x858.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Peng Taylor, the 94-year-old victim stabbed in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the family of Anh Peng Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On June 16, 2021, 94-year-old Asian immigrant woman Anh Peng Taylor was stabbed in broad daylight in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Daniel Cauich, was on an ankle monitor and later arrested for the attempted murder charge. The case is pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Man accused of half of San Francisco's hate crime surge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11915745 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage from outside a storefront shows a man pulling back a slingshot.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from June 15, 2021, of Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism and is considered responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism, is allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/anti-asian-hate-crimes-spiked-in-sf-by-more-than-500-in-2021-but-just-1-man-accused-of-half-the-crimes/\">responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021\u003c/a>. He was granted mental health treatment and later released. The district attorney’s office argued to reject the motion to release him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After release, Barreto failed to show up in court. His release was revoked in January last year. The court has now changed his status to “fugitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Robberies targeting Asian women — suspect charged with hate crime, released while case is pending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg\" alt='Women at a stop Asian hate rally hold a protest sign reading \"PROUD ASIAN AMERICAN.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters during a rally to show solidarity with Asian Americans at Embarcadero Plaza on March 26, 2021, in San Francisco. Hundreds of people marched through downtown San Francisco and held a rally at Embarcadero Plaza in solidarity with Asian Americans who had recently been the targets of hate crimes across the United States. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced multiple charges of robbery with hate crime enhancement against O’Sean Garcia, who is accused of targeting Asian women. He was released and the case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Note: This story is a partnership between \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to cover the district attorney recall election.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Han Li can be reached at han@sfstandard.com or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@lihanlihan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez can be reached at jrodriguez@kqed.org or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.twitter.com/FitztheReporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@FitztheReporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED and The San Francisco Standard reviewed 12 high-profile criminal cases involving Asian victims during 2020 and 2021 to shine a light on the aftermath of incidents that quickly enter the public consciousness and then fade.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654657069,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":107,"wordCount":4425},"headData":{"title":"Why High-Profile Attacks on SF's Asian Communities Rarely Lead to Hate Crime Charges | KQED","description":"KQED and The San Francisco Standard reviewed 12 high-profile criminal cases involving Asian victims during 2020 and 2021 to shine a light on the aftermath of incidents that quickly enter the public consciousness and then fade.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11915634 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11915634","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/02/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges/","disqusTitle":"Why High-Profile Attacks on SF's Asian Communities Rarely Lead to Hate Crime Charges","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/ff83745c-70d1-4e48-a2be-aea7012d2894/audio.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jrodriguez\">Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, KQED\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/author/han-li/\">Han Li, SF Standard\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11915634/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a partnership between \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains photos, links to videos, embedded videos and textual descriptions depicting hateful violence against members of San Francisco's Asian communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> month before the pandemic hit California, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1233158095515185152\">a video\u003c/a> went viral on social media showing an older Asian man crying. A crowd surrounded him to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified in Chinese media as “Mr. Zhou” and in court documents as “Ximing Z.,” was walking his usual route through San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood on Feb. 22, 2020, collecting recyclables to trade in for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that particular Saturday, as Zhou, then 68, made his way to the small, one-block stretch of Osceola Lane, he was attacked and robbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 20-year-old, Dwayne Grayson, stood nearby, capturing the incident on his cellphone in footage that later would be viewed by millions as it made the rounds online and on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson can be heard\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbufWls8QRM\"> on the video saying\u003c/a>, “I hate Asians, n— [N-word].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a time of rising hate against Asian communities. Just two days before the attack on Zhou, 84-year-old Rong Xin Liao \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-attack-sf-stop-hate-aapi/10449226/\">was assaulted\u003c/a>. Liao still isn’t sure why someone knocked him to the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible because I am Asian, or I am disabled, so I got picked on,” Liao told The San Francisco Standard in mid-May. He was waiting at a bus stop in the Tenderloin neighborhood, when 22-year-old Eric Ramos-Hernandez was recorded on camera jump-kicking Liao to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2021, Thai immigrant Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, was killed after being forcefully shoved to the ground during his morning walk in San Francisco. The violent incident was caught on video and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/magazine/vicha-ratanapakdee.html\">shocked the world\u003c/a>. Ratanapakdee later became the public face of the movement demanding justice and safety for Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratanapakdee’s daughter, Monthanus Ratanapakdee, told The SF Standard that she believed the fatal violence was “racially motivated” because the pandemic has flared up the hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these cases, which attracted a huge wave of media coverage, were among many across the country igniting the national Stop Asian Hate movement. But that hate is rarely reflected in criminal charges, in part because it can be hard to prove an attacker was motivated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard partnered to review a dozen high-profile criminal cases in San Francisco involving Asian and Asian American victims during 2020 and 2021 to unpack the essence of the fear from Asian communities — that the crimes are racially motivated — while shining a light on the aftermath of incidents that quickly enter the public consciousness and then fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 12 cases, many were initially investigated as hate crimes, but only two were eventually charged as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, five of the 12 defendants have entered mental health diversion programs, meaning the criminal prosecution may be suspended based on the treatment results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 12 are pending, languishing in a court system still reeling from the pandemic. In recent weeks, Black and Asian community leaders have called on law enforcement to push for hate crime enhancements to stem the tide of anti-Asian hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the dozen reviewed cases, even where alternatives to incarceration were pursued, the promises of that process were ultimately unfulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#12cases\">12 high-profile criminal cases reviewed by The SF Standard and KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2020 and 2021, anger over these crimes helped fuel an effort to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. According to a poll conducted by Embold Research for The SF Standard in May, a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/asian-american-voters-support-recall-da-chesa-boudin/\">greater percentage of Asian American voters\u003c/a> support the recall against Boudin than any other ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While community discussion between Black and Asian leaders has sometimes centered on increasing hate crime charges in San Francisco, other Black leaders say that locking people up only harms communities in the long run, perpetuating a cycle of mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, more data collection about hate incidents may lead to better community protection. A new state bill may make that information gathering mandatory if it is ultimately signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A crime victim looks for healing instead of prosecution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Zhou, the man assaulted while collecting recyclables, lives on the edge — like so many other Asian immigrants in San Francisco who can’t or won’t get government aid, whose limited English makes job-hunting difficult, and who lift blue lids in neighborhoods across the city to sustain themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News reports said Zhou’s experience before the attack in the Hunters Point neighborhood was largely warm and welcoming. In a historically Black neighborhood all-too-familiar with living on the margins, residents would often go out of their way to ensure Zhou’s plastic garbage bag was filled to bursting with discarded cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also a neighborhood with a growing Asian population, leading to some animus between the communities. Those raw feelings have become all too public of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent San Francisco redistricting meeting in City Hall, anger exploded between Asian and Black residents of southeast San Francisco, debating which communities should be granted more representation in a new map of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You say you have solidarity with us when you call us racists, and Nazis, and corporate shills?” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcbJeK9OVrA/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">said Drew Min, executive director at San Francisco Community Alliance for Unity, Safety, and Education, speaking to the Black community\u003c/a>. He was speaking at a lectern during public comment on the redistricting process, but called out what he saw as a lack of community solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have the guts to speak up for our people, when your people say something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the audience yelled in anger. “He says there’s going to be a new [District 10], that’s what he said. There’s going to be a new D10,” cried out one woman, speaking to the idea of one community being replaced by another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sentiments have long simmered in San Francisco. For years, community institutions like the Cameron House in Chinatown and Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition have tried to bridge the gaps between Asian and Black people in their respective neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with rising attacks against the AAPI community leading up to and during the pandemic, those tensions came to the fore again in public discussions of hateful incidents. That brings us back to 2020, as an Asian man is thrust into the spotlight as he collects cans in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou’s attacker, Jonathan Amerson, 56, was recorded standing by a pile of Zhou’s trash bags. He swung at Zhou with what on video looks like a garbage picker, as a crowd looked on. Amerson then allegedly took Zhou’s cart of recycling bags, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police later arrested both Amerson and Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Grayson — the young man who filmed the incident, mocked Zhou, and expressed his hatred in clear terms — the handling of prosecution was more complex since he wasn’t directly involved in the attack; he only recorded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Chesa-Boudin-crime-video-Bayview-Asian-attack-DA-15099780.php#taboola-1\">dropped charges against Grayson\u003c/a> to pursue a more rehabilitation-oriented alternative to traditional prosecution — at Zhou’s request — the media followed closely, framing the story in a way that suggested Boudin was letting Grayson off too easily, even though he was not one of the attackers. Some headlines were misleading, often claiming “charges dropped” against a suspect in the attack, leading many to think charges were dropped against Amerson, the attacker, not Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED’s Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on stage at KQED in May, Boudin defended his decision on Grayson, saying recording the attack against Zhou without intervening was “not a good thing,” and his behavior was \"offensive, horrific, racist, disrespectful\" — but “not criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11913102","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Chesa2-1020x678.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Brooke Jenkins, a former assistant district attorney who is now a spokesperson for the recall effort against Boudin, is also a former hate crimes prosecutor in the DA’s office. She said hate crime charges could have been pursued in Zhou’s case using the hateful slur captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my view, in that case, it did meet the bar,” Jenkins said. “There were statements that made the intentions very clear, and [made] the motivations very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson and Zhou ultimately did not participate in a restorative justice process together, as they initially intended. That process would’ve seen the two men reconcile their differences, sitting together and talking out what happened. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/restorative-justice/\">In their description of the goal of the San Francisco Restorative Justice Collaborative\u003c/a>, the DA’s office specifically points to the method as a practice to encourage multiracial consensus, and global racial solidarity, particularly aiming to repair the relationship between Asian American and African American communities in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, it was a process designed to address moments of hate just like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, authorities steered Grayson into another restorative justice path: neighborhood courts. It’s known as a “diversion” program that focuses on rehabilitation and urges participants to take accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou and Grayson couldn’t be reached for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amerson, who was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, was released on his own recognizance with a GPS-tracked ankle monitor. His case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Amerson lacked a permanent home when he was arrested for attacking Zhou. He was “mostly transient,” his attorney wrote in a 2020 declaration to the court. Only after his arrest was he able to secure housing, his lawyer wrote, and has been “doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Boudin touts hate-crime charges, even when he's dropped them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The question of when to charge hate crimes has become a source of contention in the recall election against Boudin. In his own defense, Boudin’s current \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1524906812952047617\">pinned Tweet\u003c/a> highlights a video quoting The San Francisco Chronicle, “ ... beating of Asian father was a hate crime, Boudin decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg\" alt='A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad features a San Francisco Chronicle article saying, \"beating of Asian Father as a hate crime, Boudin Decides.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad featuring a San Francisco Chronicle article. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chesa No on H campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a review of court records by The SF Standard and KQED shows the hate crime he charged against suspect Sidney Hammond, who allegedly assaulted an Asian American father with a baby stroller on April 30, 2021, were eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office verified as much and explained that, after charging, they received additional evidence that did not support hate crime charges, including a San Francisco police officer stating in a report that the incidents were not hate motivated. As such, the office was “ethically obligated” to dismiss the hate crime enhancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And no hate-related charges were pursued against the suspect who kicked Liao out of his walker in the Tenderloin. According to the latest court documents, Ramos-Hernandez has been referred to mental health treatment and was released with a GPS tracking monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect pushing Ratanapakdee to death, Antoine Watson, remains in custody and is charged with murder. No hate crime-related charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, who is one of Boudin’s toughest critics, pointed out the importance of charging hate crimes but also acknowledged that hate crimes are notoriously difficult to charge because they hinge on proving intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you feel like you’re being targeted for that reason, they want to feel vindicated,” said Jenkins. She added that victims of the crime want to see charges that truly capture and reflect the “full scope of someone's conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hate crimes are “one of the only charges that require the DA’s office to prove motive for the underlying crime,” she said. In other words, it requires that someone has made a verbal expression regarding the victim’s identity, or shows a clear pattern of targeting over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two cases with hate crime charges, among the dozen reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard, and both of them reflect those patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A serial vandalism suspect, Derik Barreto, was charged by DA Boudin for nearly 30 counts of hate crimes as he allegedly targeted Asian-owned businesses, breaking their windows. Barreto provided a lengthy interview with the police explicitly saying he had some delusions “around the surveillance capabilities of Chinese,” court documents reveal. In this case, Barreto verbally admitted targeting Chinese-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge in the case ordered Barreto to be released, even though the DA’s office opposed the decision. After missing his court date, he’s now facing a bench warrant arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other case where hate crime charges emerged involved a suspect robbing multiple Asian women. The suspect, O’Sean Garcia, allegedly showed a pattern of targeting victims with the same racial identity. Garcia was released, too, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the DA’s office showed that a total of 20 cases included hate crime charges in 2021, both standalone misdemeanors and hate crime enhancements, which are tacked onto felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many of those 20 cases in 2021 are categorized as anti-Asian as opposed to hate directed toward other identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not every hateful incident is a crime, as the California Attorney General’s Office laid out in a memo explaining the difference between the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Constitution allows hate speech as long as it does not interfere with the civil rights of others,” the office\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\"> wrote in the advisory\u003c/a>. “While these acts are certainly hurtful, they do not rise to the level of criminal violations and thus may not be prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Solving hate through community — and data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In mid-May, leaders from San Francisco’s Asian and Black communities came together at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition to urge authorities to pursue more hate crime charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is every human being’s birthright,” SFPD Capt. Yulanda Williams said. “Exploitation of our Asian-Pacific Islander community will no longer be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two Asian men and a Black woman sit at a long white table in a church's gymnasium, facing left, speaking to a crowd off-camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Captain Yulanda Williams, speaking in her capacity as a civilian, addresses anti-AAPI hate crimes at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on May 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That joint press conference between Black and Asian leaders at Third Baptist Church was convened with the idea that the Black community needed to stand in solidarity with Asian people in calling for more hate crime enhancements, upping the charges suspects face. But Tinisch Hollins, head of Californians for Safety and Justice, said sometimes people react to crime with efforts that ultimately perpetuate racism, and racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a very real sentiment that there are populations of individuals who cause problems and make the city and community unsafe and less desirable,” Hollins said. “And Black people, specifically Black men and boys, are at the top of that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the high-profile cases reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard feature a mix of suspects, across ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While public discussion around Asian communities frequently references the need for more safety — pushing that word, \"safety,\" in particular — Hollins said that can be a societally palatable code for pushing out Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Public safety’ right now, I feel like it’s a very covert way of naming it,” she said. It also focuses solutions on incarceration instead of giving mental health help, housing and education to people who may need it in order to reduce incentives for crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, research shows that steeper charges — which hate crime enhancements would bring — and longer sentencing don’t reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnus Lofstrom, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/proposition-47s-impact-on-racial-disparity-in-criminal-justice-outcomes-june-2020.pdf\">his research on Proposition 47\u003c/a>, which reduced some felony thefts and drug offenses to misdemeanors, has shown that reducing prison populations doesn’t lead to a rise in violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins was raised in the Bayview, near where Zhou was attacked, and said she wasn’t surprised that initial attempts to make peace between Zhou and Grayson bore no fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we at all agreed that there are better ways to resolve the kind of social conflicts that come up in our communities, especially when racial tensions are involved,” she said, “you might have a lot more buy-in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both hate crimes and hate incidents are significantly underreported, Lofstrom added. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant communities face particular barriers to reporting due to insufficient language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underreporting is a phenomenon state officials are trying to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"stop-aapi-hate"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, authored AB 1947, which would require California law enforcement agencies to standardize data collection on hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting frequently touts San Bernardino as an example of lax data collection. In 2021 the Southern California county didn’t report a single hate crime. “And in a population so large, given everything that’s going on, it’s really hard to believe,” Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting that data is especially important, Ting said, so communities can be level-headed about real threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often with law enforcement, with public safety, we’re driven by fear,” Ting said, “and we’re driven by anecdotal stories and anecdotal incidents and not really by trends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of incidents are top of mind for Rita Sinha, a 67-year-old South Asian immigrant living in the SoMa neighborhood for 10 years, who said she already feels less safe in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used to visit churches like Glide Memorial, libraries, parks, grocery stores and medical facilities, she said, “without fear of being robbed or assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, however, “It’s very scary when you walk outside,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting’s bill passed the Assembly at the end of May. While data may one day drive solutions, for now fear remains persuasive.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"12cases\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>High-profile assaults against the AAPI community, revisited\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard revisited these 12 high-profile assaults against Asian people in San Francisco in 2020 and 2021, checking the status of those cases in court, following AAPI community concern over the prosecution of hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>84-year-old man assaulted — suspect released after mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg\" alt=\"An older man seen here in a black jacket and sunglasses, with a pond behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1020x1203.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1303x1536.jpg 1303w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1737x2048.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rong Xin Liao was viciously kicked out of his seated walker onto the ground in San Francisco's Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Franciscans for Public Safety Supporting the Recall of Chesa Boudin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On February 20, 2020, Rong Xin Liao, an immigrant and senior, was kicked to the ground while he was waiting at a bus stop, standing with his walker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, was arrested and charged with assault and inflicting injury on an elder. He was initially placed on mental health diversion and released, later switched to behavioral health court, and recently released, in early April 2022. His next court date is in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Senior collecting recycling robbed and assaulted — suspect released, pending trial\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1233158095515185152"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, right before the pandemic, a 68-year-old Asian man was robbed and assaulted in Hunters Point while collecting recycling cans to resell. The incident was recorded and posted on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Dwayne Grayson, who recorded the video and made anti-Asian statements in the recording, and Jonathan Amerson, who swung what appeared to be a garbage picker at the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson’s charges were dropped at the request of the victim, who asked for a restorative justice approach. Amerson was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, both felonies. He’s been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The killing of Kelvin Chew — pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a young man's face, his expression is neutral and he is wearing glasses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-1020x579.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-1536x872.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelvin Chew, 19, was gunned down while having a walk outside his home on May 7, 2020, in a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting. The police arrested two suspects, Fagamalama Pasene and Zion Young; both are charged with murder. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chew family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/kelvin-chew-memorial-fundraiser\">Kelvin Chew\u003c/a>, 19, was gunned down while walking outside his home in the Portola District on May 7, 2020, in a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting. Police arrested two suspects, Fagamalama Pasene and Zion Young. Both are charged with murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial of the case is believed to start soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The killing of Grandpa Vicha — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432081076080427012"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>On January 28, 2021, 84-year-old Thai man Vicha Ratanapakdee was knocked to the pavement and killed in San Francisco's Anza Vista neighborhood. The incident was caught on camera, galvanizing the national Stop Asian Hate movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Antoine Watson, was arrested and charged with murder and is pending trial. The next court date is June 14, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The grandma who fought back — suspect in mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie.jpg\" alt=\"A senior woman, who is Asian, poses for a photo in a red and white striped shirt, she has an injured eye and face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 'Asian Grandma' Xiao Zhen Xie fought back her attacker, becoming an international news topic. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Xie family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, 74-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie's story became international news and raised more than $1 million after a video showed that she fought back against her alleged attacker, Steve Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dad with baby stroller assaulted — hate crime charges dropped\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage shows a man on the ground during as he is attacked.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from an incident on April 30, 2021, when an Asian father with a baby stroller was assaulted in front of a grocery store. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes. Later the charges were dropped.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 30, 2021, an Asian father with a baby stroller \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-hate-crime-man-attacked-grocery-store-sf/10575684/\">was assaulted in front of a grocery store\u003c/a>. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes, and later the charges were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammond remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Two senior women stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chui Fong Eng, 85 (left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Run Qin Xie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 5, 2021, two elder Asian women, including 85-year-old Chui Fong Eng, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills\">were stabbed in broad daylight in a downtown bus station\u003c/a>. The incident in the Tenderloin neighborhood was caught on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Patrick Thompson, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He remains in custody and the case is pending trial. Thompson has a history of mental health issues, according to news reports, and previously went through mental health diversion programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital assaults\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital.jpg\" alt=\"A hospital walkway is seen at the top of the frame as people walk through the area in front of San Francisco General Hospital in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through San Francisco General Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 24, 2021, Angelina Balenzuela allegedly assaulted two Asian American women staff members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. According to court documents, Balenzuela spat on one victim and called her a “bitch,” then pulled the hair of another victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balenzuela was arrested and the case was initially investigated as a hate crime, but hate crime charges were not brought. Balenzuela was released later and failed to show up at court. The court has revoked the release decision and issued a bench warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chinatown officer attacked — suspect in mental health treatment\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1399209097946288128"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2021, an SFPD officer was attacked on Kearny Street in Chinatown by the suspect she was trying to arrest, Gerardo Contreras. The incident was caught on video and went viral. It was initially investigated as a hate crime by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras remains in custody since his arrest and was placed in a mental health treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>94-year-old woman stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg\" alt=\"A split screen shot of an older woman, the left of her in a hospital bed, the right of her standing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1536x858.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Peng Taylor, the 94-year-old victim stabbed in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the family of Anh Peng Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On June 16, 2021, 94-year-old Asian immigrant woman Anh Peng Taylor was stabbed in broad daylight in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Daniel Cauich, was on an ankle monitor and later arrested for the attempted murder charge. The case is pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Man accused of half of San Francisco's hate crime surge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11915745 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage from outside a storefront shows a man pulling back a slingshot.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from June 15, 2021, of Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism and is considered responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism, is allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/anti-asian-hate-crimes-spiked-in-sf-by-more-than-500-in-2021-but-just-1-man-accused-of-half-the-crimes/\">responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021\u003c/a>. He was granted mental health treatment and later released. The district attorney’s office argued to reject the motion to release him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After release, Barreto failed to show up in court. His release was revoked in January last year. The court has now changed his status to “fugitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Robberies targeting Asian women — suspect charged with hate crime, released while case is pending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg\" alt='Women at a stop Asian hate rally hold a protest sign reading \"PROUD ASIAN AMERICAN.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters during a rally to show solidarity with Asian Americans at Embarcadero Plaza on March 26, 2021, in San Francisco. Hundreds of people marched through downtown San Francisco and held a rally at Embarcadero Plaza in solidarity with Asian Americans who had recently been the targets of hate crimes across the United States. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced multiple charges of robbery with hate crime enhancement against O’Sean Garcia, who is accused of targeting Asian women. He was released and the case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Note: This story is a partnership between \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to cover the district attorney recall election.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Han Li can be reached at han@sfstandard.com or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@lihanlihan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez can be reached at jrodriguez@kqed.org or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.twitter.com/FitztheReporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@FitztheReporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11915634/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges","authors":["byline_news_11915634"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29182","news_31040","news_24162","news_17725","news_30830","news_30879","news_31072","news_27626","news_4273","news_20720","news_17968","news_38","news_29159","news_31168"],"featImg":"news_11915685","label":"news"},"news_11908440":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11908440","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11908440","score":null,"sort":[1647554903000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-event-celebrates-strength-of-asian-women-1-year-after-atlanta-spa-shootings","title":"SF Event Celebrates Strength of Asian Women, 1 Year After Atlanta Spa Shootings","publishDate":1647554903,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Wednesday marked one year since a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spa businesses in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. Rallies and other events were held in the Bay Area and across the country to remember the victims of the shootings and promote awareness about ongoing violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \"Break the Silence\" event at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum — featuring a robust speaker lineup of influential Asian American women — provided free legal and mental health resources, including group discussions led by a therapist, and a self-defense workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeien Cheung, co-founder of the group \u003ca href=\"https://asiansarestrong.org/\">Asians Are Strong\u003c/a>, said she helped organize the event both to commemorate the Atlanta spa victims, and to create a safe space for Asian American women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman with 'asians are strong' t-shirt speaks at microphone with mural of strong female asian faces in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Event organizer Zeien Cheung speaks during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We need to remember, we need to acknowledge the pain,\" Cheung told KQED. \"But yet at the same time, how are we moving forward together and collectively doing something to change this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung said the event was not only a time to grieve, but also to acknowledge and celebrate the experience and strength of Asian American women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What can we do, how can we be together, how can we stand together stronger?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling women seated next to each other look up as speakers make remarks\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashlyn So, youth activist and fashion designer, and her mom, Angela, listen to speakers during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between March 2020 and December 2021, nearly 11,000 anti-Asian hate incidents were reported to the California-based coalition \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876972/inside-the-california-organization-tracking-anti-asian-hate-incidents\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>. More than 60% of those incidents were reported by women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The spa shootings were] a reminder for Asian women that we experience violence and discrimination in a particular way, the objectification of women, the stereotypes,\" said Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, which is calling for more government investments to support victims of violence and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of [the spa shootings], America was finally shocked awake to the reality of anti-Asian hate,\" Southern California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu, chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908414/america-was-finally-shocked-awake-one-year-after-atlanta-spa-shootings-democratic-leaders-condemn-anti-asian-hate\">at a news event on the U.S. Capitol steps on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in reality, for over a year, xenophobic slurs like 'China virus' and 'kung flu' have been terrorizing Asian American communities across the country with thousands of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women talk over a table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Tong (right) speaks with Diana Vuong about the Southeast Asian Community Center during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday's Asian Art Museum event, Cheung said she was frustrated that more hadn't been done — locally and nationally — over the last year to make Asian American women feel more secure in their own communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I personally haven’t seen any improvements [to safety]. I absolutely do not feel safe,\" she said. \"I definitely have given up a piece of my freedom because I used to go out very freely, but nowadays I have to think multiple times and visualize where I’m going and whether it’s safe to go by myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a raw and emotional address to attendees, Shinhong Byun, the president of the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California, described the trauma she continues to regularly experience 15 years after being sexually assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is embraced by a young man and woman\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shinhong Byun (center), president of the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California, is comforted by friends and family after an emotional address during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My purpose here, I realize, is to show you what violence looks like. What PTSD looks like,\" she said. \"It’s not [just] in our heads. It’s in the body, too. It gets trapped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Li, the executive director of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council, applauded Byun for her bravery and honesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice to recognize somebody else who’s showing their vulnerability. And that tells us it’s OK to feel those things,\" she said. \"Seeing her share that vulnerability with us was just a really nice reminder that we’re human beings, and to humanize ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li said the event highlighted the growing level of engagement in the Asian American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two dancers perform on a stage.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The K-pop dance group Groobue performs during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In the past year, I feel like the Asian American community has really started to activate,\" she said. \"People who have never been in community organizing or activism have started to spring up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy Polkadot Quock, who recently turned 88, said she was grateful to attend the event, despite the echo in the museum that made it hard for her to hear the speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m very encouraged that the Asian community had the support and the spirit to have an event like this,\" she said. \"I assumed they would have something that would be nominal in memory of the anniversary. But to see the number of people that were here and also the response ... is very, very encouraging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Farida Jhabvala Romero, Juan Carlos Lara, Beth LaBerge and David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A 'Break the Silence' event at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum featured a robust lineup of influential speakers and provided free legal and mental health resources, including group discussions led by a therapist, and a self-defense workshop.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654124282,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":923},"headData":{"title":"SF Event Celebrates Strength of Asian Women, 1 Year After Atlanta Spa Shootings | KQED","description":"A 'Break the Silence' event at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum featured a robust lineup of influential speakers and provided free legal and mental health resources, including group discussions led by a therapist, and a self-defense workshop.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11908440 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11908440","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/17/sf-event-celebrates-strength-of-asian-women-1-year-after-atlanta-spa-shootings/","disqusTitle":"SF Event Celebrates Strength of Asian Women, 1 Year After Atlanta Spa Shootings","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/43b8934d-bfa2-499a-a67a-ae5a011f1df8/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11908440/sf-event-celebrates-strength-of-asian-women-1-year-after-atlanta-spa-shootings","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wednesday marked one year since a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spa businesses in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. Rallies and other events were held in the Bay Area and across the country to remember the victims of the shootings and promote awareness about ongoing violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \"Break the Silence\" event at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum — featuring a robust speaker lineup of influential Asian American women — provided free legal and mental health resources, including group discussions led by a therapist, and a self-defense workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeien Cheung, co-founder of the group \u003ca href=\"https://asiansarestrong.org/\">Asians Are Strong\u003c/a>, said she helped organize the event both to commemorate the Atlanta spa victims, and to create a safe space for Asian American women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman with 'asians are strong' t-shirt speaks at microphone with mural of strong female asian faces in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54500_039_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Event organizer Zeien Cheung speaks during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We need to remember, we need to acknowledge the pain,\" Cheung told KQED. \"But yet at the same time, how are we moving forward together and collectively doing something to change this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheung said the event was not only a time to grieve, but also to acknowledge and celebrate the experience and strength of Asian American women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What can we do, how can we be together, how can we stand together stronger?\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908531\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling women seated next to each other look up as speakers make remarks\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54490_019_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashlyn So, youth activist and fashion designer, and her mom, Angela, listen to speakers during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between March 2020 and December 2021, nearly 11,000 anti-Asian hate incidents were reported to the California-based coalition \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876972/inside-the-california-organization-tracking-anti-asian-hate-incidents\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>. More than 60% of those incidents were reported by women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The spa shootings were] a reminder for Asian women that we experience violence and discrimination in a particular way, the objectification of women, the stereotypes,\" said Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, which is calling for more government investments to support victims of violence and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of [the spa shootings], America was finally shocked awake to the reality of anti-Asian hate,\" Southern California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu, chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908414/america-was-finally-shocked-awake-one-year-after-atlanta-spa-shootings-democratic-leaders-condemn-anti-asian-hate\">at a news event on the U.S. Capitol steps on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But in reality, for over a year, xenophobic slurs like 'China virus' and 'kung flu' have been terrorizing Asian American communities across the country with thousands of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women talk over a table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54475_006_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Tong (right) speaks with Diana Vuong about the Southeast Asian Community Center during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday's Asian Art Museum event, Cheung said she was frustrated that more hadn't been done — locally and nationally — over the last year to make Asian American women feel more secure in their own communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I personally haven’t seen any improvements [to safety]. I absolutely do not feel safe,\" she said. \"I definitely have given up a piece of my freedom because I used to go out very freely, but nowadays I have to think multiple times and visualize where I’m going and whether it’s safe to go by myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a raw and emotional address to attendees, Shinhong Byun, the president of the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California, described the trauma she continues to regularly experience 15 years after being sexually assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is embraced by a young man and woman\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54492_033_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shinhong Byun (center), president of the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California, is comforted by friends and family after an emotional address during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My purpose here, I realize, is to show you what violence looks like. What PTSD looks like,\" she said. \"It’s not [just] in our heads. It’s in the body, too. It gets trapped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Li, the executive director of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council, applauded Byun for her bravery and honesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice to recognize somebody else who’s showing their vulnerability. And that tells us it’s OK to feel those things,\" she said. \"Seeing her share that vulnerability with us was just a really nice reminder that we’re human beings, and to humanize ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li said the event highlighted the growing level of engagement in the Asian American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two dancers perform on a stage.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54502_043_KQED_JusticeforAsianWomen_03162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The K-pop dance group Groobue performs during the 'Break the Silence' event at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"In the past year, I feel like the Asian American community has really started to activate,\" she said. \"People who have never been in community organizing or activism have started to spring up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy Polkadot Quock, who recently turned 88, said she was grateful to attend the event, despite the echo in the museum that made it hard for her to hear the speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m very encouraged that the Asian community had the support and the spirit to have an event like this,\" she said. \"I assumed they would have something that would be nominal in memory of the anniversary. But to see the number of people that were here and also the response ... is very, very encouraging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Farida Jhabvala Romero, Juan Carlos Lara, Beth LaBerge and David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11908440/sf-event-celebrates-strength-of-asian-women-1-year-after-atlanta-spa-shootings","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_29182","news_29711","news_29173","news_29272","news_30807","news_24788","news_27953","news_29270","news_27626","news_4273","news_29159"],"featImg":"news_11908506","label":"news"},"news_11890341":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11890341","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11890341","score":null,"sort":[1632875792000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-to-apologize-for-the-1887-burning-of-the-citys-chinatown","title":"San José Formally Apologizes for the 1887 Burning of the City's Chinatown","publishDate":1632875792,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877801/san-jose-had-5-chinatowns-why-did-they-vanish\">San José once was home to one of the largest Chinatowns in California\u003c/a>. In the heart of downtown, it was the center of life for Chinese immigrants who worked on nearby farms and in orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877801\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1119-1020x792.jpg\"]More than a century after arsonists burned it to the ground in 1887, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzze0ZMYv4\">San José City Council approved in a unanimous vote a resolution on Tuesday afternoon to apologize to Chinese immigrants\u003c/a> and their descendants for the role the city played in “systemic and institutional racism, xenophobia, and discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José, with a population of over 1 million, is the largest city in the country to formally apologize to Chinese communities for its treatment of their ancestors. In May, the city of Antioch apologized for its mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, who built tunnels to get home from work because they were banned from walking the streets after sundown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's important that every generation express their own contrition,” San José Mayor Sam Liccardo said at Tuesday's meeting. \"We've seen [this history] repeat itself in our own community of San José.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apologies come amid a wave of attacks against Asian and Asian American communities since the start of the pandemic last year. A resolution ceremony, which will include a space for members of the Chinese American community to respond to the apology, is set to take place at noon on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sam Liccardo, mayor of San José\"]'It's important that every generation express their own contrition.'[/pullquote]Other cities, specifically in the Pacific Northwest, have issued apologies in decades past. California, too, apologized in 2009 to Chinese workers and Congress has apologized for the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was approved in 1882 and made Chinese residents the targets of the nation’s first law limiting immigration based on race or nationality\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877801/san-jose-had-5-chinatowns-why-did-they-vanish\">had five Chinatowns, but the largest one was built in 1872\u003c/a>. But in 1877, The San José Mercury News featured front page testimony from city leaders including the fire and police chiefs, the street commissioner and the mayor with one message: Chinatown must go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was of their opinion that the general condition of the locality in a sanitary point of view could not be worse and in an aesthetic or moral sense, it was revolting,\" the testimony read.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThen-Mayor Charles Breyfogle and the city council voted unanimously to get rid of the Second Market Street Chinatown. But before any official action was taken, the Chinatown was burned down. That made it the third Chinatown in San José that residents burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tuesday's resolution, hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed and around 1,400 people were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An apology for grievous injustices cannot erase the past, but admission of the historic wrongdoings committed can aid us in solving the critical problems of racial discrimination facing America today,” the resolution reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese immigrants started coming to California in large numbers during the Gold Rush in the mid-1800s. They worked in mines, built the transcontinental railroad, toiled in farms and helped develop the abalone and shrimp industries. By 1870, there were about 63,000 Chinese people in the United States, 77% of them residing in California, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese immigrants faced racism and were forced out of towns. They were denied the right to own property, marry white people and attend public schools. They also were subjected to violence and intimidation and denied equal protection by the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, an Episcopal church where Chinese immigrants attended Sunday school was burned to the ground, Chinese laundries were condemned based on being housed in wooden buildings and the first state convention of the Anti-Chinese League was held in 1886, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Connie Young Yu, historian and author\"]'This is beyond an apology. It is taking responsibility, which is a beautiful thing to me.'[/pullquote]Connie Young Yu, a historian and author of “Chinatown, San Jose, USA,” said her grandfather was a teenage refugee from the 1887 fire. Her father was born in the last existing Chinatown built in San José. The community was established in a new location with the help of German immigrant John Heinlen, despite threats to his life. But that Chinatown, known as Heninlenville, disappeared after the Chinese population dwindled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu said the official apology gives her an “enormous sense of reconciliation and a sense of peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is beyond an apology. It is taking responsibility, which is a beautiful thing to me,” Yu added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Stories from the South Bay' tag='san-jose']Gerrye Wong, who helped found the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project in San José, said she, Yu and other community members will formally accept the apology at a ceremony Wednesday near the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San José, which was built where the destroyed Chinatown once existed. In 1987, city officials dedicated a plaque at the site to mark the fire’s 100th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, a retired teacher, said the apology from the 10th largest city in the country is a teaching moment because this history was not in textbooks or taught in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a fourth-generation Chinese American myself, I didn’t know any of this and Chinese people never talked about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this anti-Asian hate environment that we see today, it’s a great step forward because it will bring attention to not only our hardships but also what Chinese communities have contributed to this country,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Adhiti Bandlamudi and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San José is the largest city in the country to formally apologize to Chinese and Chinese American communities for its treatment of their ancestors.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654124319,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1000},"headData":{"title":"San José Formally Apologizes for the 1887 Burning of the City's Chinatown | KQED","description":"San José is the largest city in the country to formally apologize to Chinese and Chinese American communities for its treatment of their ancestors.","ogTitle":"San Jose Formally Apologizes for the 1887 Burning of the City's Chinatown","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"San Jose Formally Apologizes for the 1887 Burning of the City's Chinatown","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11890341 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11890341","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/28/san-jose-to-apologize-for-the-1887-burning-of-the-citys-chinatown/","disqusTitle":"San José Formally Apologizes for the 1887 Burning of the City's Chinatown","nprByline":"Olga R. 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In the heart of downtown, it was the center of life for Chinese immigrants who worked on nearby farms and in orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11877801","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1119-1020x792.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than a century after arsonists burned it to the ground in 1887, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzze0ZMYv4\">San José City Council approved in a unanimous vote a resolution on Tuesday afternoon to apologize to Chinese immigrants\u003c/a> and their descendants for the role the city played in “systemic and institutional racism, xenophobia, and discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José, with a population of over 1 million, is the largest city in the country to formally apologize to Chinese communities for its treatment of their ancestors. In May, the city of Antioch apologized for its mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, who built tunnels to get home from work because they were banned from walking the streets after sundown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's important that every generation express their own contrition,” San José Mayor Sam Liccardo said at Tuesday's meeting. \"We've seen [this history] repeat itself in our own community of San José.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apologies come amid a wave of attacks against Asian and Asian American communities since the start of the pandemic last year. A resolution ceremony, which will include a space for members of the Chinese American community to respond to the apology, is set to take place at noon on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's important that every generation express their own contrition.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sam Liccardo, mayor of San José","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Other cities, specifically in the Pacific Northwest, have issued apologies in decades past. California, too, apologized in 2009 to Chinese workers and Congress has apologized for the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was approved in 1882 and made Chinese residents the targets of the nation’s first law limiting immigration based on race or nationality\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877801/san-jose-had-5-chinatowns-why-did-they-vanish\">had five Chinatowns, but the largest one was built in 1872\u003c/a>. But in 1877, The San José Mercury News featured front page testimony from city leaders including the fire and police chiefs, the street commissioner and the mayor with one message: Chinatown must go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was of their opinion that the general condition of the locality in a sanitary point of view could not be worse and in an aesthetic or moral sense, it was revolting,\" the testimony read.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThen-Mayor Charles Breyfogle and the city council voted unanimously to get rid of the Second Market Street Chinatown. But before any official action was taken, the Chinatown was burned down. That made it the third Chinatown in San José that residents burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tuesday's resolution, hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed and around 1,400 people were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An apology for grievous injustices cannot erase the past, but admission of the historic wrongdoings committed can aid us in solving the critical problems of racial discrimination facing America today,” the resolution reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese immigrants started coming to California in large numbers during the Gold Rush in the mid-1800s. They worked in mines, built the transcontinental railroad, toiled in farms and helped develop the abalone and shrimp industries. By 1870, there were about 63,000 Chinese people in the United States, 77% of them residing in California, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese immigrants faced racism and were forced out of towns. They were denied the right to own property, marry white people and attend public schools. They also were subjected to violence and intimidation and denied equal protection by the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, an Episcopal church where Chinese immigrants attended Sunday school was burned to the ground, Chinese laundries were condemned based on being housed in wooden buildings and the first state convention of the Anti-Chinese League was held in 1886, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This is beyond an apology. 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It is taking responsibility, which is a beautiful thing to me,” Yu added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories from the South Bay ","tag":"san-jose"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gerrye Wong, who helped found the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project in San José, said she, Yu and other community members will formally accept the apology at a ceremony Wednesday near the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San José, which was built where the destroyed Chinatown once existed. In 1987, city officials dedicated a plaque at the site to mark the fire’s 100th anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, a retired teacher, said the apology from the 10th largest city in the country is a teaching moment because this history was not in textbooks or taught in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a fourth-generation Chinese American myself, I didn’t know any of this and Chinese people never talked about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this anti-Asian hate environment that we see today, it’s a great step forward because it will bring attention to not only our hardships but also what Chinese communities have contributed to this country,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Adhiti Bandlamudi and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11890341/san-jose-to-apologize-for-the-1887-burning-of-the-citys-chinatown","authors":["byline_news_11890341"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_29711","news_393","news_23078","news_29772","news_23114","news_4273","news_6413","news_18541","news_29159"],"featImg":"news_11890357","label":"news"},"news_11880026":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11880026","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11880026","score":null,"sort":[1625095824000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hate-crimes-in-california-jumped-by-31-last-year","title":"Hate Crimes in California Jumped by 31% Last Year","publishDate":1625095824,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Hate crimes in California surged 31% in 2020, fueled mainly by a big jump in incidents targeting Black people and, to a lesser extent, Asian Americans, during a pandemic year that saw the worst racial strife in decades, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/Hate%20Crime%20In%20CA%202020.pdf\">an annual report\u003c/a> released Wednesday by the state's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall hate crimes increased from 1,015 to 1,330 last year, while the number of victims increased 23%, from 1,247 to 1,536. Black people account for 6.5% of California's nearly 40 million people, but were victims in 30% of all hate crimes — totaling 456 — up 87% from the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see from these reports is what we have seen and felt all year — we are in the midst of a racial justice reckoning in this country. It’s multifaceted, and it cannot be solved overnight,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California saw some of the largest protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. And it also saw a surge in attacks on people of Asian descent following the emergence of the coronavirus in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of hate crimes reported in the state last year was the most since 2008, when there were 1,397. That, in turn, was topped several times in prior years, including 2001, when there were 2,261 hate crimes reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 89 reported hate crimes targeting Asians in 2020, more than double the number in 2019. The highest number of incidents in 2020 were reported in March and April, just as the statewide shutdown and other pandemic restrictions took hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too many, 2020 wasn’t just about a deadly virus, it was about an epidemic of hate as well,” Bonta said at a press event in Oakland’s Chinatown. “For many, the past year wasn't just worrying about your health, your job, seeing your friends and family. It was also about wondering whether you or someone you love would be attacked simply because of the way you look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the pandemic is easing, that fear still resides in the Asian American community, said Bonta, the state’s first Filipino American attorney general. He related that he feared even for his mother going alone into an urban area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"hate-crimes\"]“There was a surge in anti-Asian violence correlated with the words of leaders who sought to divide us when we were at our most vulnerable,” said Bonta, a Democrat, in an apparent reference to former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crime incidents driven by anti-Asian hate increased from 32 in 2019 to 72 in 2020, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foag.ca.gov%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Fmedia%2Fanti-asian-hc-report.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cdthompson%40ap.org%7Cd5ca76aff7bc4a3faaa008d93be509b2%7Ce442e1abfd6b4ba3abf3b020eb50df37%7C1%7C1%7C637606677169473038%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=I7kFOEgo6gPWiKe5gv5dyImFjeiwtuX4gwLYWGmbnAA%3D&reserved=0\">companion report\u003c/a> that aims to put that violence into modern and historical context dating to the Gold Rush days of the mid-19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California defines hate crimes as those targeting victims because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender or disability. The definitions have been expanded at various times in recent years. Each hate crime event can include more than one related offense against more than one victim, and by more than one offender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such crimes targeting Latinos increased from 110 in 2019 to 152 last year, while those against white people rose from 39 to 82.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While hate crimes based on race increased, those prompted by religion dropped 13.5%. Anti-Jewish incidents fell from 141 in 2019 to 115 in 2020, and anti-Islamic incidents decreased from 25 to 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involving sexual orientation fell from 233 to 205. However, those with a gender bias increased, led by a jump in anti-transgender incidents, from 29 in 2019 to 54 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Bonta noted that more than half of hate crimes are believed to go unreported, he said he has confidence in local investigators and prosecutors to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He nonetheless distributed a new law enforcement bulletin and guidance for prosecutors intended to help them identify and investigate hate crimes, increase immediate and consistent contact with victims and their communities, and promote alternative forms of sentencing and restorative justice approaches when dealing with perpetrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Chan, president of Oakland’s Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, praised Bonta's office for also releasing updated brochures in 25 languages advising victims on how to report hate crimes and seek assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/04/30/carl-chan-asian-american-attacks-oakland-chinatown-arrest/\">was attacked\u003c/a> from behind and knocked to the ground in April, said the brochures will help spur more reporting of such incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown has seen \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cfd77ca7d4b0c63890f2a087c160d03a\">a decrease in visitors\u003c/a> amid anti-Asian rhetoric, said Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao. \"People are fearful of walking the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is seeking $300 million to address hate crimes, with one-third going to support victims and the remainder for community-based responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Emily Hung contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The rise in hate crimes in 2020 was fueled mainly by a big jump in incidents targeting Black people. Crimes against Asian people also doubled.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1625097148,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":829},"headData":{"title":"Hate Crimes in California Jumped by 31% Last Year | KQED","description":"The rise in hate crimes in 2020 was fueled mainly by a big jump in incidents targeting Black people. 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Black people account for 6.5% of California's nearly 40 million people, but were victims in 30% of all hate crimes — totaling 456 — up 87% from the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see from these reports is what we have seen and felt all year — we are in the midst of a racial justice reckoning in this country. It’s multifaceted, and it cannot be solved overnight,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California saw some of the largest protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. And it also saw a surge in attacks on people of Asian descent following the emergence of the coronavirus in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of hate crimes reported in the state last year was the most since 2008, when there were 1,397. That, in turn, was topped several times in prior years, including 2001, when there were 2,261 hate crimes reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 89 reported hate crimes targeting Asians in 2020, more than double the number in 2019. The highest number of incidents in 2020 were reported in March and April, just as the statewide shutdown and other pandemic restrictions took hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too many, 2020 wasn’t just about a deadly virus, it was about an epidemic of hate as well,” Bonta said at a press event in Oakland’s Chinatown. “For many, the past year wasn't just worrying about your health, your job, seeing your friends and family. It was also about wondering whether you or someone you love would be attacked simply because of the way you look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the pandemic is easing, that fear still resides in the Asian American community, said Bonta, the state’s first Filipino American attorney general. He related that he feared even for his mother going alone into an urban area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"hate-crimes"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There was a surge in anti-Asian violence correlated with the words of leaders who sought to divide us when we were at our most vulnerable,” said Bonta, a Democrat, in an apparent reference to former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crime incidents driven by anti-Asian hate increased from 32 in 2019 to 72 in 2020, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Foag.ca.gov%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Fmedia%2Fanti-asian-hc-report.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cdthompson%40ap.org%7Cd5ca76aff7bc4a3faaa008d93be509b2%7Ce442e1abfd6b4ba3abf3b020eb50df37%7C1%7C1%7C637606677169473038%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=I7kFOEgo6gPWiKe5gv5dyImFjeiwtuX4gwLYWGmbnAA%3D&reserved=0\">companion report\u003c/a> that aims to put that violence into modern and historical context dating to the Gold Rush days of the mid-19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California defines hate crimes as those targeting victims because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender or disability. 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However, those with a gender bias increased, led by a jump in anti-transgender incidents, from 29 in 2019 to 54 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Bonta noted that more than half of hate crimes are believed to go unreported, he said he has confidence in local investigators and prosecutors to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He nonetheless distributed a new law enforcement bulletin and guidance for prosecutors intended to help them identify and investigate hate crimes, increase immediate and consistent contact with victims and their communities, and promote alternative forms of sentencing and restorative justice approaches when dealing with perpetrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Chan, president of Oakland’s Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, praised Bonta's office for also releasing updated brochures in 25 languages advising victims on how to report hate crimes and seek assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/04/30/carl-chan-asian-american-attacks-oakland-chinatown-arrest/\">was attacked\u003c/a> from behind and knocked to the ground in April, said the brochures will help spur more reporting of such incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown has seen \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cfd77ca7d4b0c63890f2a087c160d03a\">a decrease in visitors\u003c/a> amid anti-Asian rhetoric, said Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao. \"People are fearful of walking the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is seeking $300 million to address hate crimes, with one-third going to support victims and the remainder for community-based responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Emily Hung contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11880026/hate-crimes-in-california-jumped-by-31-last-year","authors":["byline_news_11880026"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_29173","news_4273","news_3674"],"featImg":"news_11880034","label":"news"},"news_11870713":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11870713","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11870713","score":null,"sort":[1619120259000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bill-to-combat-anti-asian-hate-approved-by-senate-in-rare-moment-of-unity","title":"Bill to Combat Anti-Asian Hate Approved by Senate in Rare Moment of Unity","publishDate":1619120259,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Capping \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/986749681/enough-is-enough-democrats-push-for-gop-support-on-asian-american-hate-crimes-bi\">nearly two weeks of talks\u003c/a> between Democrats and Republicans, the Senate approved legislation on Thursday to ramp up law enforcement efforts to better protect Asian American and Pacific Islander communities from hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks a rare moment of bipartisan unity needed to approve the Senate legislation despite a new political era marked by increasingly bitter party divisions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which needed 60 votes for passage in the evenly divided Senate, was approved by a vote of 94 to 1. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vote today on the anti-Asian hate crimes bill is proof that when the Senate is given the opportunity to work, the Senate can work to solve important issues,\" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said ahead of the vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill next heads to the House, where it's being led by New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng and is expected to gain approval. Following House passage, it will go to President Biden's desk. Biden had urged approval for hate crimes legislation in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/03/22/what-the-georgia-shootings-reveal-about-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s\">March shooting in Georgia\u003c/a> that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/1109160554.pdf\">legislation\u003c/a>, introduced by Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono in the Senate, saw a breakthrough late Wednesday during negotiations with Republicans. Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins helped lead efforts to broaden the original scope of the bill to go beyond hate crimes initiated during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/maziehirono/status/1385299494842081281?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Collins and I identified changes that will broaden support for the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act while retaining the bill's core purpose to combat anti-Asian hate,\" Hirono said in a statement after the breakthrough in talks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation does highlight that in a nearly one-year period ending in Feb. 28, the country has seen about 3,800 cases of related discrimination and hate crime incidents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crimes motivated by bias against race, national origin and other characteristics cannot be tolerated,\" Collins said. \"Our amendment both denounces those acts and marshals additional resources toward addressing and stopping these horrible crimes.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was held up in recent days over which amendments Republicans could offer up for floor votes ahead of Thursday's final passage. About 20 were filed, many of which had nothing to do with the bill, Hirono has said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the parties agreed to vote on three of those GOP amendments that all failed to garner the 60 votes needed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer, D-New York, said the legislation was the mark of progress since \"dark chapters in our history,\" with accounts of discrimination against the AAPI community rising under former President Donald Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the past several years, the forces of hate and bigotry seemed to have gained strength too often encouraged by our former president,\" Schumer said on the Senate floor. \"The Senate makes it very clear that hate and discrimination against any group has no place in America. Bigotry against one is bigotry against all.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='anti-asian-attacks']Through grant programs and other efforts, the legislation incentivizes law enforcement agencies to better track instances of hate crimes and establish related hotlines. It also requires the attorney general designate a Department of Justice official to quickly initiate a review of such hate crime reports for law enforcement departments across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general would also direct guidance for agencies to take part in new, related online reporting requirements and efforts to expand public awareness campaigns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the measure also includes a bipartisan provision authored by Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Kansas GOP Sen. Jerry Moran to allow alternative sentencing during prosecution. In such instances, a defendant could complete educational courses or community service in the communities harmed by the defendant's action. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer said the bill's passage sends two messages: one, the government is in solidarity with the AAPI community and, two, that hate crimes will not be tolerated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also the bill bodes well for the Senate to work across the aisle again soon, including plans to take up legislation focused on boosting U.S. competition with China in the coming weeks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the past six years, we've had too few opportunities to work together on timely bipartisan legislation,\" Schumer said. \"Let this be a reminder that when senators of good will work with each other, at the end of the day we can achieve a good result. We can do it again.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Josh Hawley voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vote today on the anti-Asian hate crimes bill is proof that when the Senate is given the opportunity to work, the Senate can work to solve important issues,\" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said ahead of the vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill next heads to the House, where it's being led by New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng and is expected to gain approval. Following House passage, it will go to President Biden's desk. Biden had urged approval for hate crimes legislation in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/03/22/what-the-georgia-shootings-reveal-about-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s\">March shooting in Georgia\u003c/a> that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/1109160554.pdf\">legislation\u003c/a>, introduced by Hawaii Democrat Mazie Hirono in the Senate, saw a breakthrough late Wednesday during negotiations with Republicans. Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins helped lead efforts to broaden the original scope of the bill to go beyond hate crimes initiated during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1385299494842081281"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Collins and I identified changes that will broaden support for the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act while retaining the bill's core purpose to combat anti-Asian hate,\" Hirono said in a statement after the breakthrough in talks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation does highlight that in a nearly one-year period ending in Feb. 28, the country has seen about 3,800 cases of related discrimination and hate crime incidents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crimes motivated by bias against race, national origin and other characteristics cannot be tolerated,\" Collins said. \"Our amendment both denounces those acts and marshals additional resources toward addressing and stopping these horrible crimes.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was held up in recent days over which amendments Republicans could offer up for floor votes ahead of Thursday's final passage. About 20 were filed, many of which had nothing to do with the bill, Hirono has said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the parties agreed to vote on three of those GOP amendments that all failed to garner the 60 votes needed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer, D-New York, said the legislation was the mark of progress since \"dark chapters in our history,\" with accounts of discrimination against the AAPI community rising under former President Donald Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the past several years, the forces of hate and bigotry seemed to have gained strength too often encouraged by our former president,\" Schumer said on the Senate floor. \"The Senate makes it very clear that hate and discrimination against any group has no place in America. Bigotry against one is bigotry against all.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"anti-asian-attacks"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Through grant programs and other efforts, the legislation incentivizes law enforcement agencies to better track instances of hate crimes and establish related hotlines. It also requires the attorney general designate a Department of Justice official to quickly initiate a review of such hate crime reports for law enforcement departments across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general would also direct guidance for agencies to take part in new, related online reporting requirements and efforts to expand public awareness campaigns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the measure also includes a bipartisan provision authored by Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Kansas GOP Sen. Jerry Moran to allow alternative sentencing during prosecution. 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