Video Shows Asian Police Officer Violently Attacked in San Francisco
On 5/31/21 at 5:37 PM EDT
Video from surveillance cameras shows a man violently attacking an Asian female police officer in San Francisco s Chinatown Friday night.
The attacker, who has since been identified as Geraldo Contreras, had allegedly been standing on the street corner near Clay and Kearny Streets just before 7 p.m. on Friday. Witnesses reportedly saw him vandalizing rental scooters and shouting threats at passersby. One witness reported hearing Contreras yell Chinese people don t belong here. The officer who arrived on the scene was responding to calls of a drunk and disheveled man making threats.
OTTAWA A well-respected longtime staff member at an Ottawa community health centre has died after he was stabbed in Chinatown Friday morning. Officers responded to a call at just after 9:40 a.m. for a stabbing at the intersection of Somerset Street West and Arthur Street. Police say officers found a man that had been stabbed. He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police say the suspect also stabbed a second person nearby around 11:50 a.m. That person was seriously injured and taken to hospital. Police have identified the homicide victim as Carl Reinboth, 64, of Ottawa. Reinboth was a harm reduction worker at the nearby Somerset West Community Health Centre, officials there confirmed.