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A recent rash of anti-Asian hate crimes in California is continuing, with more verbal and physical assaults reported in the last week.
An Asian American woman was spat on and called racial slurs in her own garage. Another woman was punched and bombarded with racial comments in a park.
On a bus in Eagle Rock, an attacker apparently mistook an elderly Latina woman for Asian, calling her an anti-Chinese slur before reportedly pulling her hair and breaking her nose.
Seemingly bothered by the drumbeat of hate, a Korean man in Orange County allegedly kidnapped a woman he thought was white but who turned out to be Asian.
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Man facing hate crime, battery charges for allegedly spitting on Asian woman inside her El Cerrito garage
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A Richmond man faces hate crime and battery charges after police said he followed an Asian woman into her El Cerrito garage, spit in her face and shouted race-based insults.
Ricky Allen Amos, 56, was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of battery and vandalism with a hate crime enhancement, Lauren Caputo, a lieutenant with El Cerrito Police, said in a statement. Amos also faces charges for being out of compliance with sex offender registration requirements. He remained in custody Tuesday evening at the Martinez Detention Facility, according to jail records.