Nobody came, nobody helped : Fears of anti-Asian violence rattle the community sfgate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfgate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Violent attacks against Asian American elders have left the community reeling, especially across Chinatowns from New York to San Francisco. Now they re looking for ways to protect themselves.
‘We’re being scapegoated’: Asian Americans speak out against spate of violence
Asian American communities stand up amid string of violent attacks
Replay Video Monthanus Ratanapakdee will always remember her father as a gentle soul. Vicha Ratanapakdee had moved to San Francisco from Thailand four years ago to help his daughter and son-in-law, Eric Lawson, take care of their two sons. During that time, he came to be known as “grandpa” throughout his neighborhood, where he’d made it a ritual to go on morning walks each day. On Jan. 28, the 84-year-old was on one of those walks when a man rushed him and forcefully knocked him to the ground, surveillance video shows. Vicha Ratanapakdee went to the hospital, where he died two days later.
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The pandemic and attacks against Asian-Americans mute Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco.
The pandemic has devastated businesses in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where banquet halls are closed and few shoppers are in the mood to buy Lunar New Year decorations.Credit.Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Feb. 12, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO The fish and crab tanks at the back of the wood-paneled restaurant are empty, and chairs are stacked here and there. Bill Lee, the owner of the Far East Café in San Francisco’s Chinatown, surveyed the empty second-floor banquet hall that during any other Lunar New Year would be packed with hundreds of customers.