Oakland Mayor Blames Crime Wave Against Asians on Defunded Police; Black and Asian Activists Disagree
On 2/11/21 at 9:51 AM EST
As Asian Americans reel from a recent string of attacks in the Bay Area, some in Oakland have accused the city of pitting them against the Black population.
At a press conference in Chinatown, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf addressed the series of robberies and assaults targeting elderly members of the Asian American community. But her remarks quickly drew criticism when she blamed the violent incidences on defunding the police and budget cuts made to public safety, pointing a finger specifically to City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas.
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Back in a makeshift kitchen in the garage of her rented home, she began whisking together fish sauce, lime juice and sugar in a small bowl, blending in salt, pepper, chile paste and lemongrass. Then she heated oil in a worn skillet and sliced the steak into thin strips before gently laying them in the sizzling pan and adding the vinaigrette.
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LOS ANGELES Mimi Truong took some time to scour Westminster’s T & K Food Market for ingredients to make her spicy beef salad (an in-demand dish among her 11 private customers), adding fresh mint, shallots, sprouts and crispy cucumbers to her cart.
Back in a makeshift kitchen in the garage of her rented home, she began whisking together fish sauce, lime juice and sugar in a small bowl, blending in salt, pepper, chile paste and lemongrass. Then she heated oil in a worn skillet and sliced the steak into thin strips before gently laying them in the sizzling pan and adding the vinaigrette.
Catching Up With Sarah Mizes-Tan
CapRadio’s Race and Equity reporter joined the station a year ago.
Sarah-Mizes-Tan
It’s become almost cliché to say that COVID-19 has laid bare the racial and economic inequality in America, but one reason we can even talk about that fact is that intrepid journalists interpret data for us. On a local level, CapRadio’s first-ever Race and Equity reporter, Sarah Mizes-Tan, has been producing multiple stories each week on the intersection of race, health and politics.
Mizes-Tan moved to Sacramento to take the job at CapRadio in February 2020. When asked about her most memorable story in her relatively brief tenure thus far, she mentioned an April piece on inequity in the City Council’s distribution of pandemic-relief loans to small businesses. Her story contained the shocking fact that not a cent of the $1 million in loans went to any business in the Little Saigon district along Stockton Boulevard. Nick Miller, t