In Oakland s Chinatown, community leaders are going public with their pleas for help in combating an increase in violent crime, an effort deemed especially important with the Lunar New Year celebration kicking into high gear.
On Thursday, Feb. 11 his security cameras captured one of his customers being robbed as she left the shop.
She was about to get into her car when another car pulled up and a suspect got out and stole her purse. She had her son in the back seat, said Nguyen. Two or three minutes later, my mom came with my daughter. I don t know how I d feel if that happened to my mom. I d go crazy.