This wasn’t a robbery. This 91-year-old man apparently was attacked because he’s Asian. Or maybe the attacker is just mad at the world. Moments later, he assaulted two other people.
In a similar attack in San Francisco a few days earlier, an 84-year-old Thai man was killed. That assailant was caught. The motive in that case apparently was that the victim looked at him while he was vandalizing a car.
Read about these incidents here, here, and here.
⚠️ WARNING: this video is hard to watch. Another shocking attack in Oakland’s Chinatown. 8th and Harrison Streets. Outside the Asian Resource Center.
20+ robbery/assault incidents in the neighborhood according to the Chinatown Chamber president. https://t.co/9bo9PzuqiL pic.twitter.com/8h6dkNA1TG
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) February 4, 2021