Daylight Attack on 2 Asian Women in San Francisco Increases Fears
The stabbing on Market Street this week and other attacks have caused some older Asian-American residents in the Bay Area to fear going outdoors, community leaders said.
The stabbing of two women at a bus stop in San Francisco on Tuesday has added to the anxiety of the city’s large Asian-American population.Credit.Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
May 5, 2021Updated 8:15 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO From her flower stand on Market Street, Patricia Lee saw the glint of a large blade and then feathers from a winter jacket fly through the air. An older woman buckled to her knees.
SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES) - From her flower stand on Market Street, Patricia Lee saw the glint of a large blade and then feathers from a winter jacket fly through the air. An older woman buckled to her knees.
In broad daylight, on one of the busiest streets in San Francisco, two unsuspecting Asian women, one of them 84, had just been attacked by a man with a large military-style knife, officials and witnesses said. He walked right next to me - I could have been the one who got stabbed, said Lee, who witnessed the attack Tuesday afternoon. Police arrested Patrick Thompson, 54, who they say carried out the attack, although the motive remained unknown.
Moment Asian dad pushing baby son in stroller is punched 14 times during unprovoked attack outside San Francisco supermarket by assailant freed less than a month earlier for shoving man onto train tracks
A 36-year-old father, who identified himself as only Bruce , was walking his baby in the Mission bay neighborhood of San Francisco on Friday afternoon when a man came up to him and punched him from behind
Surveillance footage captured the 36-year-old blocking the 14 blows to his head and back from a random attacker as his son s stroller slowly rolls away My sense of security has been shattered, Bruce said about the attack
Deputy Public Defender Eric McBurneyâs statement on the case for his client Steven Jenkins
May 3, 2021
by Valerie Ibarra
My name is Eric McBurney, the deputy public defender representing Steven Jenkins, who was arrested on March 17, 2021, after witnesses saw him strike Xiao Zhen Xie at the corner of Market and Seventh Street in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins is also accused of hitting Ngoc Pham that same day.
These are two deeply troubling assaults of elderly Asian Americans in our community at a time when Asian Americans locally and nationally are suffering from an escalation of violence and anti-Asian racism. As an immigrant from Taiwan myself, I understand why there has been so much concern about this case and I have great sympathy for Mr. Pham, Ms. Xiao and their families.