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He was attacked on June 19, 1982, and died four days later from his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His killers were fined $3,000 and sentenced to three years of probation. \u003ca href=\"https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2017/06/24/vincent-chin-th-anniversary/103167672/\">They never served time in prison.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The light sentencing galvanized not only Asian American communities, but solidarity from the Black community as well, particularly from Rev. Jesse Jackson, who came to San Francisco in the 1980s to join hands with coalitions advocating for Chin’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11917484 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-515138928-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three women, left, and one man, right, walk down a hallway in a black and white photo. A woman third form left is crying in anguish, as the woman amd man to her immediate sides carry her by the arms.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-515138928-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-515138928-1-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-515138928-1-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-515138928-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-515138928-1-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily Chin, mother of Vincent chin who was clubbed to death by two white men in a scuffle in June 1982, breaks down as a relative (L), helps her walk while leaving Detroit’s City County Building. Mrs. Chin along with the American Citizens for Justice asked Judge Charles Kaufman, who heard the case and passed sentence, to resentence the two involved in the slayings. \u003ccite>(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anti-Asian hate rose during the pandemic amid hateful rhetoric, including from former President Donald Trump, who stoked racist coronavirus fears of Asian Americans. At least 10,905 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were recorded from March 19, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021, according to the coalition \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-december-31-2021/\">Stop AAPI Hate.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"anti-asian\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rising hate has also awakened Asian American voters in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915634/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges\">who cited increasing violence against their communities\u003c/a> in the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng has been there through it all — pushing for recognition for Asian American communities in the wake of Chin’s death, to the present day, where she recently called for solidarity between the Black and Asian communities \u003ca href=\"https://www.singtaousa.com/2022-06-18/%E9%99%B3%E6%9E%9C%E4%BB%81%E9%81%87%E5%AE%B340%E5%91%A8%E5%B9%B4-%E5%8F%8D%E6%80%9D%E6%97%8F%E8%A3%94%E5%92%8C%E8%AB%A7%E5%9C%98%E7%B5%90/4130733#page7\">in the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily newspaper\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, Teng served as co-chair of the Chinese Progressive Association, one of a bevy of Asian American organizations that rose up in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and played a pivotal advocacy role following Chin’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in the 80s, Teng joined Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition, which pushed nationally for more rights for ethnic groups who felt they were ignored by the policies of then-President Ronald Reagan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teng since had a storied San Francisco career, serving on the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees in 1990, then later becoming the first Asian woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1994. Later, as San Francisco assessor-recorder, her office processed the first marriages of same-sex couples in City Hall. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-c-c.org/menu-about/staff/staff-executive-director/\">now serves\u003c/a> as the interim executive director of the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917481\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands inbetween two men, who are all on the steps of City Hall shouting with smiles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-1020x850.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-1536x1280.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Country Court Recorder Mabel Teng (C) and California Assemblyman Mark Leno (R) attend a rally August 12, 2004 in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this wide-ranging interview with KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Teng describes her own social justice awakening, lessons learned from the coalitions built in the wake of Chin’s death, and how those lessons could heal divisions between the Asian American and Black communities today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: Where were you in your perception of activism and social justice before the Rainbow Coalition?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mabel Teng:\u003c/b> I think where I was in the 1980s, I was becoming an activist. My eyes were opened. I saw injustice. I saw discrimination. I came from it. Since my family immigrated to America. It’s been a journey of discrimination and exploitation and being treated as a second-class citizen. So the 80s was my kind of awakening that maybe I can be part of changing that reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me your earliest memory of discrimination.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I came from Hong Kong in 1970, or ‘71. I came with my mom and my sister, the three of us. We immigrated here and I went to live with my older sister in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My high school in my memory was mostly white, even though it was it wasn’t all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I was made to feel like an alien because I looked like an immigrant and I couldn’t speak English. And I remember the first day in school, I was so prepared to make friends. So I learned, ‘How are you?’ and ‘My name is Mabel.’ I was greeted with ‘Ching chong Chinaman, never eat your vitamin.’ I didn’t know what it meant. So I said ‘Thank you.’ That live[S?] in my memory vividly. And I remember going to high school, I had to take all these classes in English. And my teacher knew I couldn’t speak English. And she would pick on me and have me stand up in class and answer questions that I couldn’t answer. And I felt very humiliated. People laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the perception of yourself when you were young and what was the perception others gave you and how did those eventually reconcile?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a tough question. Before I came to America, I always have this kind of like magazine picture that America is sunshine, flowers, everybody has a dog and you have a house and everybody is happy. But when I came, it wasn’t the same, right? It looks like everybody else had a dog. Everybody else had sunshine. They’re happy. But for immigrants, we don’t have a dog. We don’t have a house. And life is not so happy. So my perception is, clearly, there are two Americas. One America for the white people and one America for the rest of us who are not white. That was very, very clear in my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take us to the 1970s, to give us an idea of the activism in the Asian American community before Chin’s death. Would you say that some of the early efforts to organize in Asian American communities you were involved in, were any of them inspired by the social justice movements that were happening in the previous decade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, definitely. So people who introduced me to Chinatown, they were older, part of the social justice movement. They were part of the war against poverty. Back then, but I was kind of like the young ones being mentored and being taught by these older activists. So some of them already kind of have a consciousness of working with African Americans and the Black Power movement at that time. But I was just cutting my teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web.jpg\" alt=\"Two men hold signs at a rally in a black and white photo.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Hing and Rocky Chin hold signs supporting Jesse Jackson for president in New York City in 1988. They came to support him after the Rainbow Coalition showed up to support the Chin family and Asian American communities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mabel Teng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you remember where you were when you heard Vincent Chin was killed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in a newspaper, and I was in San Francisco by then. I was the co-chair of the Chinese Progressive Association here and what I was working on the immigrant rights movement. President Ronald Reagan came into office, and working with him was so clearly in my mind, Congressman (Romano) Mazzoli and Senator (Alan) Simpson, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/31/opinion/l-immigration-law-shouldn-t-keep-families-apart-200796.html\">proposed to eliminate family immigration by cutting off brothers and sisters\u003c/a>. They said brothers and sisters are not a core part of the American family. And then if you look at the stats, it’s the Asians, the Chinese, the Filipinos, we’re using most “fifth preference” (nominating brothers or sisters) to bring their family over. So I became a champion to oppose the bill and I was in coalition with a whole bunch of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when word came that Vincent Chin was killed, I think we were devastated. But a lot of Asians were going through this, like we want to live the “American dream,” right? So a lot of the parents were encouraging the kids to be professional, to be doctors, into accounting. ‘Don’t cause trouble, and don’t bring grief to the family and be like a model for the family.’ So a lot of Asians did not share our activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917483\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11917483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-800x1038.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a man with long hair, wearing a tie. The photo is in black and white. He is smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-800x1038.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-1020x1323.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-1184x1536.jpg 1184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-1579x2048.jpg 1579w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent Chin. \u003ccite>(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the immigration write-in campaign did not spread like wildfire even though it was in the self-interest of Asians to fight. But then when the Vincent Chen killing came, it really changed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me more about the emotional and political fallout at the time.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we heard the news that Vincent Chin was killed, a professional person, American born, I remember I was just lost. It wasn’t like he was a working-class, like immigrant who spoke with an accent, but he was accomplished. He was a well-liked Asian guy. And how could he be killed? I mean, if he could be killed, we could all be killed, right? So that was the first shell shock. I think the other shell shock was when we heard the killers went through a trial, a so-called speedy trial, and the judge gave a sentence of $3,000 fine and three years of probation to the two killers in the brutal killing. So I think that gross miscarriage of justice was what whipped the entire Asian-American community into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why was it so important and how helpful was it to have the Rainbow Coalition come together to have different ethnic groups come and join with each other to push back against that injustice?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the Rainbow Coalition experience to me is a whole different realm. It’s like me getting a first-hand education from African American leaders, Civil Rights leaders and just people like me. If we turn off the light, we all look alike. We all feel alike. So Jesse Jackson took me to his hometown, took me to his church. It was a whole different experience. I already could feel his commitment to Vincent Chin and Mrs. Chin. For nine years of our struggle, he stayed with us. He worked with us. So when he took me and other Asians in the Rainbow, we learned so much from African-Americans, right? I mean, I would never have known the story about Emmett Till. Never. I think we actually influenced Jesse Jackson as much as he influenced us. And he always talked about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqG7Y2nb_M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking it back to San Francisco, how do you think it shaped activism in San Francisco that moment, Vincent Chin and the coalitions that formed then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it transformed San Francisco. It raised the bar of organizing to a whole new level in San Francisco. I remember after Reverend Jackson came to San Francisco to meet with us at Cameron House, organizations started to work together. We are not well known for working together for many years. At that time, you have the Chinese Progressive Association, the Asian Law Caucus, Cameron House and American Citizens for Justice. These organizations started working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you speak to how useful it has been to have those connections formed and to have them persist throughout San Francisco’s history?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in Chinatown working with each other empowered the entire community. But when Chinatown worked in unison with other races and other ethnicities and other groups, it’s empowering for everyone. So I think our charge moving forward is to come out of our own silos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11917482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6.jpg\" alt=\"A group of dozens of youth pose for a photo with Jesse Jackson inside a room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-800x371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-1536x713.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Jackson in conversation with youth, sponsored by Rainbow Coalition. Event was held at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mabel Teng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I think in the last few years with that white supremacist in the White House, people were looking for ways to survive, looking for new ways to organize. But I think some of us realize we already got the way, it’s to work together and not in silos. But not everybody realized it yet because it’s just so hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We have these two social justice movies happening in silos. We have the Black Lives Matter protests, the protests that came out of George Floyd’s death, the call for less policing, the call for more reform in policing. But then we also have this movement against rising anti-Asian hate. And some of that comes up with a call from certain folks who wish for more policing in recognition of the need for more safety. Sometimes it can feel like those two ideas are in contest with each other. What do you think is the way forward for that common ground?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the communities need to look at the costs of public safety, because public safety is not as simple as having more police. I mean, look at all the African Americans that were killed by the police. So every community and ethnicity has a different relationship with the police. I think the solution is for a different community, which may not look the same in terms of the color of our skins, but these communities to come together and to understand better each other’s aspiration. What are the solution to safety? You know, African American families aspire for safety. The Asian community also feels unsafe. So we face a common oppression, right? We face a common situation. What are the root cause? Let’s work together on those root cause. Because I don’t think more policing is the simple solution to public safety. I think that in fact is an oversimplification of the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 787px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11917465 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Mabel3.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of people seated on a stage with a protest banner hanging behind them. \" width=\"787\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Mabel3.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Mabel3-160x139.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Jackson speaks with Lily Chin, at a gathering for justice for Vincent Chin at Cameron House, SF, May 1983. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mabel Teng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You cannot deal with safety without dealing with the social issue. It’s poverty that we need to deal with in San Francisco. The income gap. It’s widening. Are we really happy that San Francisco is so divided and so polarized? So what is our common aspiration solution? Because I think for a lot of the African American families, Asian families, we are in the “have nots,” right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesson of the Rainbow Coalition, I think are many and they are meaningful. I think one is people coming together, working together and out of their own silos are powerful. We have seen it in the eighties. We have seen it in the nineties. We need to see it today. I think the second lesson is when people come together, we need to be patient and respectful of each other because our culture, our heritage may be different. We need to listen to each other without the lights on so that the color of our skin is not an issue, but how we feel. The common oppression is what drives us. I think the third lesson is we need to be open to each other’s heritage and culture. Learn them and make it part of yourself so that we have adopted from each other the best of our culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalition building takes time. I mean, it’s not like a one-month thing or a one-year thing. I think coalition building is measured maybe in ten years. It’s a decades thing. It’s really a commitment. So I think we have to be patient and give it time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Wynne Davis contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story identified Teng as executive director of the Chinese Culture Center. She has since moved on to a new position at another organization. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rising hate has also awakened Asian American voters in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915634/why-high-profile-attacks-on-sfs-asian-communities-rarely-lead-to-hate-crime-charges\">who cited increasing violence against their communities\u003c/a> in the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng has been there through it all — pushing for recognition for Asian American communities in the wake of Chin’s death, to the present day, where she recently called for solidarity between the Black and Asian communities \u003ca href=\"https://www.singtaousa.com/2022-06-18/%E9%99%B3%E6%9E%9C%E4%BB%81%E9%81%87%E5%AE%B340%E5%91%A8%E5%B9%B4-%E5%8F%8D%E6%80%9D%E6%97%8F%E8%A3%94%E5%92%8C%E8%AB%A7%E5%9C%98%E7%B5%90/4130733#page7\">in the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily newspaper\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, Teng served as co-chair of the Chinese Progressive Association, one of a bevy of Asian American organizations that rose up in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and played a pivotal advocacy role following Chin’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in the 80s, Teng joined Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition, which pushed nationally for more rights for ethnic groups who felt they were ignored by the policies of then-President Ronald Reagan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teng since had a storied San Francisco career, serving on the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees in 1990, then later becoming the first Asian woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1994. Later, as San Francisco assessor-recorder, her office processed the first marriages of same-sex couples in City Hall. She \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-c-c.org/menu-about/staff/staff-executive-director/\">now serves\u003c/a> as the interim executive director of the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917481\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands inbetween two men, who are all on the steps of City Hall shouting with smiles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-1020x850.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-51164227-1-1536x1280.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Country Court Recorder Mabel Teng (C) and California Assemblyman Mark Leno (R) attend a rally August 12, 2004 in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this wide-ranging interview with KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Teng describes her own social justice awakening, lessons learned from the coalitions built in the wake of Chin’s death, and how those lessons could heal divisions between the Asian American and Black communities today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: Where were you in your perception of activism and social justice before the Rainbow Coalition?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mabel Teng:\u003c/b> I think where I was in the 1980s, I was becoming an activist. My eyes were opened. I saw injustice. I saw discrimination. I came from it. Since my family immigrated to America. It’s been a journey of discrimination and exploitation and being treated as a second-class citizen. So the 80s was my kind of awakening that maybe I can be part of changing that reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me your earliest memory of discrimination.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I came from Hong Kong in 1970, or ‘71. I came with my mom and my sister, the three of us. We immigrated here and I went to live with my older sister in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My high school in my memory was mostly white, even though it was it wasn’t all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I was made to feel like an alien because I looked like an immigrant and I couldn’t speak English. And I remember the first day in school, I was so prepared to make friends. So I learned, ‘How are you?’ and ‘My name is Mabel.’ I was greeted with ‘Ching chong Chinaman, never eat your vitamin.’ I didn’t know what it meant. So I said ‘Thank you.’ That live[S?] in my memory vividly. And I remember going to high school, I had to take all these classes in English. And my teacher knew I couldn’t speak English. And she would pick on me and have me stand up in class and answer questions that I couldn’t answer. And I felt very humiliated. People laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the perception of yourself when you were young and what was the perception others gave you and how did those eventually reconcile?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a tough question. Before I came to America, I always have this kind of like magazine picture that America is sunshine, flowers, everybody has a dog and you have a house and everybody is happy. But when I came, it wasn’t the same, right? It looks like everybody else had a dog. Everybody else had sunshine. They’re happy. But for immigrants, we don’t have a dog. We don’t have a house. And life is not so happy. So my perception is, clearly, there are two Americas. One America for the white people and one America for the rest of us who are not white. That was very, very clear in my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take us to the 1970s, to give us an idea of the activism in the Asian American community before Chin’s death. Would you say that some of the early efforts to organize in Asian American communities you were involved in, were any of them inspired by the social justice movements that were happening in the previous decade?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, definitely. So people who introduced me to Chinatown, they were older, part of the social justice movement. They were part of the war against poverty. Back then, but I was kind of like the young ones being mentored and being taught by these older activists. So some of them already kind of have a consciousness of working with African Americans and the Black Power movement at that time. But I was just cutting my teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11917489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web.jpg\" alt=\"Two men hold signs at a rally in a black and white photo.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel8web-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Hing and Rocky Chin hold signs supporting Jesse Jackson for president in New York City in 1988. They came to support him after the Rainbow Coalition showed up to support the Chin family and Asian American communities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mabel Teng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you remember where you were when you heard Vincent Chin was killed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in a newspaper, and I was in San Francisco by then. I was the co-chair of the Chinese Progressive Association here and what I was working on the immigrant rights movement. President Ronald Reagan came into office, and working with him was so clearly in my mind, Congressman (Romano) Mazzoli and Senator (Alan) Simpson, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/31/opinion/l-immigration-law-shouldn-t-keep-families-apart-200796.html\">proposed to eliminate family immigration by cutting off brothers and sisters\u003c/a>. They said brothers and sisters are not a core part of the American family. And then if you look at the stats, it’s the Asians, the Chinese, the Filipinos, we’re using most “fifth preference” (nominating brothers or sisters) to bring their family over. So I became a champion to oppose the bill and I was in coalition with a whole bunch of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when word came that Vincent Chin was killed, I think we were devastated. But a lot of Asians were going through this, like we want to live the “American dream,” right? So a lot of the parents were encouraging the kids to be professional, to be doctors, into accounting. ‘Don’t cause trouble, and don’t bring grief to the family and be like a model for the family.’ So a lot of Asians did not share our activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917483\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11917483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-800x1038.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a man with long hair, wearing a tie. The photo is in black and white. He is smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-800x1038.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-1020x1323.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-1184x1536.jpg 1184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1-1579x2048.jpg 1579w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/GettyImages-1312357982-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent Chin. \u003ccite>(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the immigration write-in campaign did not spread like wildfire even though it was in the self-interest of Asians to fight. But then when the Vincent Chen killing came, it really changed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me more about the emotional and political fallout at the time.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we heard the news that Vincent Chin was killed, a professional person, American born, I remember I was just lost. It wasn’t like he was a working-class, like immigrant who spoke with an accent, but he was accomplished. He was a well-liked Asian guy. And how could he be killed? I mean, if he could be killed, we could all be killed, right? So that was the first shell shock. I think the other shell shock was when we heard the killers went through a trial, a so-called speedy trial, and the judge gave a sentence of $3,000 fine and three years of probation to the two killers in the brutal killing. So I think that gross miscarriage of justice was what whipped the entire Asian-American community into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why was it so important and how helpful was it to have the Rainbow Coalition come together to have different ethnic groups come and join with each other to push back against that injustice?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the Rainbow Coalition experience to me is a whole different realm. It’s like me getting a first-hand education from African American leaders, Civil Rights leaders and just people like me. If we turn off the light, we all look alike. We all feel alike. So Jesse Jackson took me to his hometown, took me to his church. It was a whole different experience. I already could feel his commitment to Vincent Chin and Mrs. Chin. For nine years of our struggle, he stayed with us. He worked with us. So when he took me and other Asians in the Rainbow, we learned so much from African-Americans, right? I mean, I would never have known the story about Emmett Till. Never. I think we actually influenced Jesse Jackson as much as he influenced us. And he always talked about it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5yqG7Y2nb_M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5yqG7Y2nb_M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking it back to San Francisco, how do you think it shaped activism in San Francisco that moment, Vincent Chin and the coalitions that formed then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it transformed San Francisco. It raised the bar of organizing to a whole new level in San Francisco. I remember after Reverend Jackson came to San Francisco to meet with us at Cameron House, organizations started to work together. We are not well known for working together for many years. At that time, you have the Chinese Progressive Association, the Asian Law Caucus, Cameron House and American Citizens for Justice. These organizations started working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you speak to how useful it has been to have those connections formed and to have them persist throughout San Francisco’s history?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in Chinatown working with each other empowered the entire community. But when Chinatown worked in unison with other races and other ethnicities and other groups, it’s empowering for everyone. So I think our charge moving forward is to come out of our own silos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11917482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6.jpg\" alt=\"A group of dozens of youth pose for a photo with Jesse Jackson inside a room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-800x371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-1020x473.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/mabel6-1536x713.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Jackson in conversation with youth, sponsored by Rainbow Coalition. Event was held at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mabel Teng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I think in the last few years with that white supremacist in the White House, people were looking for ways to survive, looking for new ways to organize. But I think some of us realize we already got the way, it’s to work together and not in silos. But not everybody realized it yet because it’s just so hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We have these two social justice movies happening in silos. We have the Black Lives Matter protests, the protests that came out of George Floyd’s death, the call for less policing, the call for more reform in policing. But then we also have this movement against rising anti-Asian hate. And some of that comes up with a call from certain folks who wish for more policing in recognition of the need for more safety. Sometimes it can feel like those two ideas are in contest with each other. What do you think is the way forward for that common ground?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the communities need to look at the costs of public safety, because public safety is not as simple as having more police. I mean, look at all the African Americans that were killed by the police. So every community and ethnicity has a different relationship with the police. I think the solution is for a different community, which may not look the same in terms of the color of our skins, but these communities to come together and to understand better each other’s aspiration. What are the solution to safety? You know, African American families aspire for safety. The Asian community also feels unsafe. So we face a common oppression, right? We face a common situation. What are the root cause? Let’s work together on those root cause. Because I don’t think more policing is the simple solution to public safety. I think that in fact is an oversimplification of the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 787px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11917465 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Mabel3.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of people seated on a stage with a protest banner hanging behind them. \" width=\"787\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Mabel3.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Mabel3-160x139.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Jackson speaks with Lily Chin, at a gathering for justice for Vincent Chin at Cameron House, SF, May 1983. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mabel Teng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You cannot deal with safety without dealing with the social issue. It’s poverty that we need to deal with in San Francisco. The income gap. It’s widening. Are we really happy that San Francisco is so divided and so polarized? So what is our common aspiration solution? Because I think for a lot of the African American families, Asian families, we are in the “have nots,” right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesson of the Rainbow Coalition, I think are many and they are meaningful. I think one is people coming together, working together and out of their own silos are powerful. We have seen it in the eighties. We have seen it in the nineties. We need to see it today. I think the second lesson is when people come together, we need to be patient and respectful of each other because our culture, our heritage may be different. We need to listen to each other without the lights on so that the color of our skin is not an issue, but how we feel. The common oppression is what drives us. I think the third lesson is we need to be open to each other’s heritage and culture. Learn them and make it part of yourself so that we have adopted from each other the best of our culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalition building takes time. I mean, it’s not like a one-month thing or a one-year thing. I think coalition building is measured maybe in ten years. It’s a decades thing. It’s really a commitment. So I think we have to be patient and give it time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR’s Wynne Davis contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story identified Teng as executive director of the Chinese Culture Center. She has since moved on to a new position at another organization. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Why High-Profile Attacks on SF's Asian Communities Rarely Lead to Hate Crime Charges",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a partnership between \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains photos, links to videos, embedded videos and textual descriptions depicting hateful violence against members of San Francisco's Asian communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] month before the pandemic hit California, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1233158095515185152\">a video\u003c/a> went viral on social media showing an older Asian man crying. A crowd surrounded him to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified in Chinese media as “Mr. Zhou” and in court documents as “Ximing Z.,” was walking his usual route through San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood on Feb. 22, 2020, collecting recyclables to trade in for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that particular Saturday, as Zhou, then 68, made his way to the small, one-block stretch of Osceola Lane, he was attacked and robbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 20-year-old, Dwayne Grayson, stood nearby, capturing the incident on his cellphone in footage that later would be viewed by millions as it made the rounds online and on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson can be heard\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbufWls8QRM\"> on the video saying\u003c/a>, “I hate Asians, n— [N-word].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a time of rising hate against Asian communities. Just two days before the attack on Zhou, 84-year-old Rong Xin Liao \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-attack-sf-stop-hate-aapi/10449226/\">was assaulted\u003c/a>. Liao still isn’t sure why someone knocked him to the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible because I am Asian, or I am disabled, so I got picked on,” Liao told The San Francisco Standard in mid-May. He was waiting at a bus stop in the Tenderloin neighborhood, when 22-year-old Eric Ramos-Hernandez was recorded on camera jump-kicking Liao to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2021, Thai immigrant Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, was killed after being forcefully shoved to the ground during his morning walk in San Francisco. The violent incident was caught on video and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/magazine/vicha-ratanapakdee.html\">shocked the world\u003c/a>. Ratanapakdee later became the public face of the movement demanding justice and safety for Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratanapakdee’s daughter, Monthanus Ratanapakdee, told The SF Standard that she believed the fatal violence was “racially motivated” because the pandemic has flared up the hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these cases, which attracted a huge wave of media coverage, were among many across the country igniting the national Stop Asian Hate movement. But that hate is rarely reflected in criminal charges, in part because it can be hard to prove an attacker was motivated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard partnered to review a dozen high-profile criminal cases in San Francisco involving Asian and Asian American victims during 2020 and 2021 to unpack the essence of the fear from Asian communities — that the crimes are racially motivated — while shining a light on the aftermath of incidents that quickly enter the public consciousness and then fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 12 cases, many were initially investigated as hate crimes, but only two were eventually charged as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, five of the 12 defendants have entered mental health diversion programs, meaning the criminal prosecution may be suspended based on the treatment results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 12 are pending, languishing in a court system still reeling from the pandemic. In recent weeks, Black and Asian community leaders have called on law enforcement to push for hate crime enhancements to stem the tide of anti-Asian hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the dozen reviewed cases, even where alternatives to incarceration were pursued, the promises of that process were ultimately unfulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#12cases\">12 high-profile criminal cases reviewed by The SF Standard and KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2020 and 2021, anger over these crimes helped fuel an effort to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. According to a poll conducted by Embold Research for The SF Standard in May, a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/asian-american-voters-support-recall-da-chesa-boudin/\">greater percentage of Asian American voters\u003c/a> support the recall against Boudin than any other ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While community discussion between Black and Asian leaders has sometimes centered on increasing hate crime charges in San Francisco, other Black leaders say that locking people up only harms communities in the long run, perpetuating a cycle of mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, more data collection about hate incidents may lead to better community protection. A new state bill may make that information gathering mandatory if it is ultimately signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A crime victim looks for healing instead of prosecution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Zhou, the man assaulted while collecting recyclables, lives on the edge — like so many other Asian immigrants in San Francisco who can’t or won’t get government aid, whose limited English makes job-hunting difficult, and who lift blue lids in neighborhoods across the city to sustain themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News reports said Zhou’s experience before the attack in the Hunters Point neighborhood was largely warm and welcoming. In a historically Black neighborhood all-too-familiar with living on the margins, residents would often go out of their way to ensure Zhou’s plastic garbage bag was filled to bursting with discarded cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also a neighborhood with a growing Asian population, leading to some animus between the communities. Those raw feelings have become all too public of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent San Francisco redistricting meeting in City Hall, anger exploded between Asian and Black residents of southeast San Francisco, debating which communities should be granted more representation in a new map of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You say you have solidarity with us when you call us racists, and Nazis, and corporate shills?” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcbJeK9OVrA/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">said Drew Min, executive director at San Francisco Community Alliance for Unity, Safety, and Education, speaking to the Black community\u003c/a>. He was speaking at a lectern during public comment on the redistricting process, but called out what he saw as a lack of community solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have the guts to speak up for our people, when your people say something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the audience yelled in anger. “He says there’s going to be a new [District 10], that’s what he said. There’s going to be a new D10,” cried out one woman, speaking to the idea of one community being replaced by another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sentiments have long simmered in San Francisco. For years, community institutions like the Cameron House in Chinatown and Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition have tried to bridge the gaps between Asian and Black people in their respective neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with rising attacks against the AAPI community leading up to and during the pandemic, those tensions came to the fore again in public discussions of hateful incidents. That brings us back to 2020, as an Asian man is thrust into the spotlight as he collects cans in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou’s attacker, Jonathan Amerson, 56, was recorded standing by a pile of Zhou’s trash bags. He swung at Zhou with what on video looks like a garbage picker, as a crowd looked on. Amerson then allegedly took Zhou’s cart of recycling bags, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police later arrested both Amerson and Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Grayson — the young man who filmed the incident, mocked Zhou, and expressed his hatred in clear terms — the handling of prosecution was more complex since he wasn’t directly involved in the attack; he only recorded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Chesa-Boudin-crime-video-Bayview-Asian-attack-DA-15099780.php#taboola-1\">dropped charges against Grayson\u003c/a> to pursue a more rehabilitation-oriented alternative to traditional prosecution — at Zhou’s request — the media followed closely, framing the story in a way that suggested Boudin was letting Grayson off too easily, even though he was not one of the attackers. Some headlines were misleading, often claiming “charges dropped” against a suspect in the attack, leading many to think charges were dropped against Amerson, the attacker, not Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED’s Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on stage at KQED in May, Boudin defended his decision on Grayson, saying recording the attack against Zhou without intervening was “not a good thing,” and his behavior was \"offensive, horrific, racist, disrespectful\" — but “not criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913102 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Chesa2-1020x678.jpg']Brooke Jenkins, a former assistant district attorney who is now a spokesperson for the recall effort against Boudin, is also a former hate crimes prosecutor in the DA’s office. She said hate crime charges could have been pursued in Zhou’s case using the hateful slur captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my view, in that case, it did meet the bar,” Jenkins said. “There were statements that made the intentions very clear, and [made] the motivations very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson and Zhou ultimately did not participate in a restorative justice process together, as they initially intended. That process would’ve seen the two men reconcile their differences, sitting together and talking out what happened. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/restorative-justice/\">In their description of the goal of the San Francisco Restorative Justice Collaborative\u003c/a>, the DA’s office specifically points to the method as a practice to encourage multiracial consensus, and global racial solidarity, particularly aiming to repair the relationship between Asian American and African American communities in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, it was a process designed to address moments of hate just like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, authorities steered Grayson into another restorative justice path: neighborhood courts. It’s known as a “diversion” program that focuses on rehabilitation and urges participants to take accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou and Grayson couldn’t be reached for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amerson, who was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, was released on his own recognizance with a GPS-tracked ankle monitor. His case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Amerson lacked a permanent home when he was arrested for attacking Zhou. He was “mostly transient,” his attorney wrote in a 2020 declaration to the court. Only after his arrest was he able to secure housing, his lawyer wrote, and has been “doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Boudin touts hate-crime charges, even when he's dropped them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The question of when to charge hate crimes has become a source of contention in the recall election against Boudin. In his own defense, Boudin’s current \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1524906812952047617\">pinned Tweet\u003c/a> highlights a video quoting The San Francisco Chronicle, “ ... beating of Asian father was a hate crime, Boudin decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg\" alt='A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad features a San Francisco Chronicle article saying, \"beating of Asian Father as a hate crime, Boudin Decides.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad featuring a San Francisco Chronicle article. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chesa No on H campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a review of court records by The SF Standard and KQED shows the hate crime he charged against suspect Sidney Hammond, who allegedly assaulted an Asian American father with a baby stroller on April 30, 2021, were eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office verified as much and explained that, after charging, they received additional evidence that did not support hate crime charges, including a San Francisco police officer stating in a report that the incidents were not hate motivated. As such, the office was “ethically obligated” to dismiss the hate crime enhancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And no hate-related charges were pursued against the suspect who kicked Liao out of his walker in the Tenderloin. According to the latest court documents, Ramos-Hernandez has been referred to mental health treatment and was released with a GPS tracking monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect pushing Ratanapakdee to death, Antoine Watson, remains in custody and is charged with murder. No hate crime-related charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, who is one of Boudin’s toughest critics, pointed out the importance of charging hate crimes but also acknowledged that hate crimes are notoriously difficult to charge because they hinge on proving intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you feel like you’re being targeted for that reason, they want to feel vindicated,” said Jenkins. She added that victims of the crime want to see charges that truly capture and reflect the “full scope of someone's conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hate crimes are “one of the only charges that require the DA’s office to prove motive for the underlying crime,” she said. In other words, it requires that someone has made a verbal expression regarding the victim’s identity, or shows a clear pattern of targeting over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two cases with hate crime charges, among the dozen reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard, and both of them reflect those patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A serial vandalism suspect, Derik Barreto, was charged by DA Boudin for nearly 30 counts of hate crimes as he allegedly targeted Asian-owned businesses, breaking their windows. Barreto provided a lengthy interview with the police explicitly saying he had some delusions “around the surveillance capabilities of Chinese,” court documents reveal. In this case, Barreto verbally admitted targeting Chinese-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge in the case ordered Barreto to be released, even though the DA’s office opposed the decision. After missing his court date, he’s now facing a bench warrant arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other case where hate crime charges emerged involved a suspect robbing multiple Asian women. The suspect, O’Sean Garcia, allegedly showed a pattern of targeting victims with the same racial identity. Garcia was released, too, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the DA’s office showed that a total of 20 cases included hate crime charges in 2021, both standalone misdemeanors and hate crime enhancements, which are tacked onto felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many of those 20 cases in 2021 are categorized as anti-Asian as opposed to hate directed toward other identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not every hateful incident is a crime, as the California Attorney General’s Office laid out in a memo explaining the difference between the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Constitution allows hate speech as long as it does not interfere with the civil rights of others,” the office\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\"> wrote in the advisory\u003c/a>. “While these acts are certainly hurtful, they do not rise to the level of criminal violations and thus may not be prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Solving hate through community — and data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In mid-May, leaders from San Francisco’s Asian and Black communities came together at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition to urge authorities to pursue more hate crime charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is every human being’s birthright,” SFPD Capt. Yulanda Williams said. “Exploitation of our Asian-Pacific Islander community will no longer be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two Asian men and a Black woman sit at a long white table in a church's gymnasium, facing left, speaking to a crowd off-camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Captain Yulanda Williams, speaking in her capacity as a civilian, addresses anti-AAPI hate crimes at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on May 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That joint press conference between Black and Asian leaders at Third Baptist Church was convened with the idea that the Black community needed to stand in solidarity with Asian people in calling for more hate crime enhancements, upping the charges suspects face. But Tinisch Hollins, head of Californians for Safety and Justice, said sometimes people react to crime with efforts that ultimately perpetuate racism, and racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a very real sentiment that there are populations of individuals who cause problems and make the city and community unsafe and less desirable,” Hollins said. “And Black people, specifically Black men and boys, are at the top of that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the high-profile cases reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard feature a mix of suspects, across ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While public discussion around Asian communities frequently references the need for more safety — pushing that word, \"safety,\" in particular — Hollins said that can be a societally palatable code for pushing out Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Public safety’ right now, I feel like it’s a very covert way of naming it,” she said. It also focuses solutions on incarceration instead of giving mental health help, housing and education to people who may need it in order to reduce incentives for crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, research shows that steeper charges — which hate crime enhancements would bring — and longer sentencing don’t reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnus Lofstrom, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/proposition-47s-impact-on-racial-disparity-in-criminal-justice-outcomes-june-2020.pdf\">his research on Proposition 47\u003c/a>, which reduced some felony thefts and drug offenses to misdemeanors, has shown that reducing prison populations doesn’t lead to a rise in violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins was raised in the Bayview, near where Zhou was attacked, and said she wasn’t surprised that initial attempts to make peace between Zhou and Grayson bore no fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we at all agreed that there are better ways to resolve the kind of social conflicts that come up in our communities, especially when racial tensions are involved,” she said, “you might have a lot more buy-in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both hate crimes and hate incidents are significantly underreported, Lofstrom added. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant communities face particular barriers to reporting due to insufficient language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underreporting is a phenomenon state officials are trying to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='stop-aapi-hate']Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, authored AB 1947, which would require California law enforcement agencies to standardize data collection on hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting frequently touts San Bernardino as an example of lax data collection. In 2021 the Southern California county didn’t report a single hate crime. “And in a population so large, given everything that’s going on, it’s really hard to believe,” Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting that data is especially important, Ting said, so communities can be level-headed about real threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often with law enforcement, with public safety, we’re driven by fear,” Ting said, “and we’re driven by anecdotal stories and anecdotal incidents and not really by trends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of incidents are top of mind for Rita Sinha, a 67-year-old South Asian immigrant living in the SoMa neighborhood for 10 years, who said she already feels less safe in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used to visit churches like Glide Memorial, libraries, parks, grocery stores and medical facilities, she said, “without fear of being robbed or assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, however, “It’s very scary when you walk outside,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting’s bill passed the Assembly at the end of May. While data may one day drive solutions, for now fear remains persuasive.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"12cases\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>High-profile assaults against the AAPI community, revisited\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard revisited these 12 high-profile assaults against Asian people in San Francisco in 2020 and 2021, checking the status of those cases in court, following AAPI community concern over the prosecution of hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>84-year-old man assaulted — suspect released after mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg\" alt=\"An older man seen here in a black jacket and sunglasses, with a pond behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1020x1203.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1303x1536.jpg 1303w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1737x2048.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rong Xin Liao was viciously kicked out of his seated walker onto the ground in San Francisco's Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Franciscans for Public Safety Supporting the Recall of Chesa Boudin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On February 20, 2020, Rong Xin Liao, an immigrant and senior, was kicked to the ground while he was waiting at a bus stop, standing with his walker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, was arrested and charged with assault and inflicting injury on an elder. He was initially placed on mental health diversion and released, later switched to behavioral health court, and recently released, in early April 2022. His next court date is in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Senior collecting recycling robbed and assaulted — suspect released, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1233158095515185152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, right before the pandemic, a 68-year-old Asian man was robbed and assaulted in Hunters Point while collecting recycling cans to resell. The incident was recorded and posted on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Dwayne Grayson, who recorded the video and made anti-Asian statements in the recording, and Jonathan Amerson, who swung what appeared to be a garbage picker at the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson’s charges were dropped at the request of the victim, who asked for a restorative justice approach. Amerson was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, both felonies. He’s been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The killing of Kelvin Chew — pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of a young man's face, his expression is neutral and he is wearing glasses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-1020x579.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo3_Kelvin-Chew-1536x872.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelvin Chew, 19, was gunned down while having a walk outside his home on May 7, 2020, in a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting. The police arrested two suspects, Fagamalama Pasene and Zion Young; both are charged with murder. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chew family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/kelvin-chew-memorial-fundraiser\">Kelvin Chew\u003c/a>, 19, was gunned down while walking outside his home in the Portola District on May 7, 2020, in a robbery-turned-fatal-shooting. Police arrested two suspects, Fagamalama Pasene and Zion Young. Both are charged with murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial of the case is believed to start soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The killing of Grandpa Vicha — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lihanlihan/status/1432081076080427012\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On January 28, 2021, 84-year-old Thai man Vicha Ratanapakdee was knocked to the pavement and killed in San Francisco's Anza Vista neighborhood. The incident was caught on camera, galvanizing the national Stop Asian Hate movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Antoine Watson, was arrested and charged with murder and is pending trial. The next court date is June 14, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The grandma who fought back — suspect in mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie.jpg\" alt=\"A senior woman, who is Asian, poses for a photo in a red and white striped shirt, she has an injured eye and face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo05_Xiao-Zhen-Xie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 'Asian Grandma' Xiao Zhen Xie fought back her attacker, becoming an international news topic. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Xie family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, 74-year-old Xiao Zhen Xie's story became international news and raised more than $1 million after a video showed that she fought back against her alleged attacker, Steve Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dad with baby stroller assaulted — hate crime charges dropped\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage shows a man on the ground during as he is attacked.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo06_Father-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from an incident on April 30, 2021, when an Asian father with a baby stroller was assaulted in front of a grocery store. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes. Later the charges were dropped.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 30, 2021, an Asian father with a baby stroller \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-hate-crime-man-attacked-grocery-store-sf/10575684/\">was assaulted in front of a grocery store\u003c/a>. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes, and later the charges were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammond remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Two senior women stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chui Fong Eng, 85 (left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Run Qin Xie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 5, 2021, two elder Asian women, including 85-year-old Chui Fong Eng, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills\">were stabbed in broad daylight in a downtown bus station\u003c/a>. The incident in the Tenderloin neighborhood was caught on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Patrick Thompson, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He remains in custody and the case is pending trial. Thompson has a history of mental health issues, according to news reports, and previously went through mental health diversion programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital assaults\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital.jpg\" alt=\"A hospital walkway is seen at the top of the frame as people walk through the area in front of San Francisco General Hospital in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo08_Hospital-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through San Francisco General Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 24, 2021, Angelina Balenzuela allegedly assaulted two Asian American women staff members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. According to court documents, Balenzuela spat on one victim and called her a “bitch,” then pulled the hair of another victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balenzuela was arrested and the case was initially investigated as a hate crime, but hate crime charges were not brought. Balenzuela was released later and failed to show up at court. The court has revoked the release decision and issued a bench warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chinatown officer attacked — suspect in mental health treatment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1399209097946288128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2021, an SFPD officer was attacked on Kearny Street in Chinatown by the suspect she was trying to arrest, Gerardo Contreras. The incident was caught on video and went viral. It was initially investigated as a hate crime by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras remains in custody since his arrest and was placed in a mental health treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>94-year-old woman stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg\" alt=\"A split screen shot of an older woman, the left of her in a hospital bed, the right of her standing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1536x858.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Peng Taylor, the 94-year-old victim stabbed in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the family of Anh Peng Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On June 16, 2021, 94-year-old Asian immigrant woman Anh Peng Taylor was stabbed in broad daylight in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Daniel Cauich, was on an ankle monitor and later arrested for the attempted murder charge. The case is pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Man accused of half of San Francisco's hate crime surge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11915745 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage from outside a storefront shows a man pulling back a slingshot.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from June 15, 2021, of Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism and is considered responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism, is allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/anti-asian-hate-crimes-spiked-in-sf-by-more-than-500-in-2021-but-just-1-man-accused-of-half-the-crimes/\">responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021\u003c/a>. He was granted mental health treatment and later released. The district attorney’s office argued to reject the motion to release him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After release, Barreto failed to show up in court. His release was revoked in January last year. The court has now changed his status to “fugitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Robberies targeting Asian women — suspect charged with hate crime, released while case is pending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg\" alt='Women at a stop Asian hate rally hold a protest sign reading \"PROUD ASIAN AMERICAN.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters during a rally to show solidarity with Asian Americans at Embarcadero Plaza on March 26, 2021, in San Francisco. Hundreds of people marched through downtown San Francisco and held a rally at Embarcadero Plaza in solidarity with Asian Americans who had recently been the targets of hate crimes across the United States. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced multiple charges of robbery with hate crime enhancement against O’Sean Garcia, who is accused of targeting Asian women. He was released and the case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Note: This story is a partnership between \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to cover the district attorney recall election.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Han Li can be reached at han@sfstandard.com or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@lihanlihan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez can be reached at jrodriguez@kqed.org or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.twitter.com/FitztheReporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@FitztheReporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a partnership between \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains photos, links to videos, embedded videos and textual descriptions depicting hateful violence against members of San Francisco's Asian communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> month before the pandemic hit California, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1233158095515185152\">a video\u003c/a> went viral on social media showing an older Asian man crying. A crowd surrounded him to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified in Chinese media as “Mr. Zhou” and in court documents as “Ximing Z.,” was walking his usual route through San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood on Feb. 22, 2020, collecting recyclables to trade in for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on that particular Saturday, as Zhou, then 68, made his way to the small, one-block stretch of Osceola Lane, he was attacked and robbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 20-year-old, Dwayne Grayson, stood nearby, capturing the incident on his cellphone in footage that later would be viewed by millions as it made the rounds online and on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson can be heard\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbufWls8QRM\"> on the video saying\u003c/a>, “I hate Asians, n— [N-word].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a time of rising hate against Asian communities. Just two days before the attack on Zhou, 84-year-old Rong Xin Liao \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-attack-sf-stop-hate-aapi/10449226/\">was assaulted\u003c/a>. Liao still isn’t sure why someone knocked him to the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s possible because I am Asian, or I am disabled, so I got picked on,” Liao told The San Francisco Standard in mid-May. He was waiting at a bus stop in the Tenderloin neighborhood, when 22-year-old Eric Ramos-Hernandez was recorded on camera jump-kicking Liao to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2021, Thai immigrant Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, was killed after being forcefully shoved to the ground during his morning walk in San Francisco. The violent incident was caught on video and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/magazine/vicha-ratanapakdee.html\">shocked the world\u003c/a>. Ratanapakdee later became the public face of the movement demanding justice and safety for Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratanapakdee’s daughter, Monthanus Ratanapakdee, told The SF Standard that she believed the fatal violence was “racially motivated” because the pandemic has flared up the hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these cases, which attracted a huge wave of media coverage, were among many across the country igniting the national Stop Asian Hate movement. But that hate is rarely reflected in criminal charges, in part because it can be hard to prove an attacker was motivated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard partnered to review a dozen high-profile criminal cases in San Francisco involving Asian and Asian American victims during 2020 and 2021 to unpack the essence of the fear from Asian communities — that the crimes are racially motivated — while shining a light on the aftermath of incidents that quickly enter the public consciousness and then fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 12 cases, many were initially investigated as hate crimes, but only two were eventually charged as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, five of the 12 defendants have entered mental health diversion programs, meaning the criminal prosecution may be suspended based on the treatment results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 12 are pending, languishing in a court system still reeling from the pandemic. In recent weeks, Black and Asian community leaders have called on law enforcement to push for hate crime enhancements to stem the tide of anti-Asian hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the dozen reviewed cases, even where alternatives to incarceration were pursued, the promises of that process were ultimately unfulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#12cases\">12 high-profile criminal cases reviewed by The SF Standard and KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2020 and 2021, anger over these crimes helped fuel an effort to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. According to a poll conducted by Embold Research for The SF Standard in May, a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/asian-american-voters-support-recall-da-chesa-boudin/\">greater percentage of Asian American voters\u003c/a> support the recall against Boudin than any other ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While community discussion between Black and Asian leaders has sometimes centered on increasing hate crime charges in San Francisco, other Black leaders say that locking people up only harms communities in the long run, perpetuating a cycle of mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, more data collection about hate incidents may lead to better community protection. A new state bill may make that information gathering mandatory if it is ultimately signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A crime victim looks for healing instead of prosecution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Zhou, the man assaulted while collecting recyclables, lives on the edge — like so many other Asian immigrants in San Francisco who can’t or won’t get government aid, whose limited English makes job-hunting difficult, and who lift blue lids in neighborhoods across the city to sustain themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News reports said Zhou’s experience before the attack in the Hunters Point neighborhood was largely warm and welcoming. In a historically Black neighborhood all-too-familiar with living on the margins, residents would often go out of their way to ensure Zhou’s plastic garbage bag was filled to bursting with discarded cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also a neighborhood with a growing Asian population, leading to some animus between the communities. Those raw feelings have become all too public of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent San Francisco redistricting meeting in City Hall, anger exploded between Asian and Black residents of southeast San Francisco, debating which communities should be granted more representation in a new map of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You say you have solidarity with us when you call us racists, and Nazis, and corporate shills?” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcbJeK9OVrA/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\">said Drew Min, executive director at San Francisco Community Alliance for Unity, Safety, and Education, speaking to the Black community\u003c/a>. He was speaking at a lectern during public comment on the redistricting process, but called out what he saw as a lack of community solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have the guts to speak up for our people, when your people say something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the audience yelled in anger. “He says there’s going to be a new [District 10], that’s what he said. There’s going to be a new D10,” cried out one woman, speaking to the idea of one community being replaced by another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sentiments have long simmered in San Francisco. For years, community institutions like the Cameron House in Chinatown and Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition have tried to bridge the gaps between Asian and Black people in their respective neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with rising attacks against the AAPI community leading up to and during the pandemic, those tensions came to the fore again in public discussions of hateful incidents. That brings us back to 2020, as an Asian man is thrust into the spotlight as he collects cans in Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou’s attacker, Jonathan Amerson, 56, was recorded standing by a pile of Zhou’s trash bags. He swung at Zhou with what on video looks like a garbage picker, as a crowd looked on. Amerson then allegedly took Zhou’s cart of recycling bags, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police later arrested both Amerson and Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Grayson — the young man who filmed the incident, mocked Zhou, and expressed his hatred in clear terms — the handling of prosecution was more complex since he wasn’t directly involved in the attack; he only recorded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the DA’s office \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Chesa-Boudin-crime-video-Bayview-Asian-attack-DA-15099780.php#taboola-1\">dropped charges against Grayson\u003c/a> to pursue a more rehabilitation-oriented alternative to traditional prosecution — at Zhou’s request — the media followed closely, framing the story in a way that suggested Boudin was letting Grayson off too easily, even though he was not one of the attackers. Some headlines were misleading, often claiming “charges dropped” against a suspect in the attack, leading many to think charges were dropped against Amerson, the attacker, not Grayson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED’s Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on stage at KQED in May, Boudin defended his decision on Grayson, saying recording the attack against Zhou without intervening was “not a good thing,” and his behavior was \"offensive, horrific, racist, disrespectful\" — but “not criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Brooke Jenkins, a former assistant district attorney who is now a spokesperson for the recall effort against Boudin, is also a former hate crimes prosecutor in the DA’s office. She said hate crime charges could have been pursued in Zhou’s case using the hateful slur captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my view, in that case, it did meet the bar,” Jenkins said. “There were statements that made the intentions very clear, and [made] the motivations very clear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson and Zhou ultimately did not participate in a restorative justice process together, as they initially intended. That process would’ve seen the two men reconcile their differences, sitting together and talking out what happened. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/restorative-justice/\">In their description of the goal of the San Francisco Restorative Justice Collaborative\u003c/a>, the DA’s office specifically points to the method as a practice to encourage multiracial consensus, and global racial solidarity, particularly aiming to repair the relationship between Asian American and African American communities in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, it was a process designed to address moments of hate just like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, authorities steered Grayson into another restorative justice path: neighborhood courts. It’s known as a “diversion” program that focuses on rehabilitation and urges participants to take accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhou and Grayson couldn’t be reached for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amerson, who was charged with second-degree robbery and inflicting injury on an elder, was released on his own recognizance with a GPS-tracked ankle monitor. His case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Amerson lacked a permanent home when he was arrested for attacking Zhou. He was “mostly transient,” his attorney wrote in a 2020 declaration to the court. Only after his arrest was he able to secure housing, his lawyer wrote, and has been “doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Boudin touts hate-crime charges, even when he's dropped them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The question of when to charge hate crimes has become a source of contention in the recall election against Boudin. In his own defense, Boudin’s current \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1524906812952047617\">pinned Tweet\u003c/a> highlights a video quoting The San Francisco Chronicle, “ ... beating of Asian father was a hate crime, Boudin decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg\" alt='A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad features a San Francisco Chronicle article saying, \"beating of Asian Father as a hate crime, Boudin Decides.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.05.25-PM-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from a No on H campaign ad featuring a San Francisco Chronicle article. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chesa No on H campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a review of court records by The SF Standard and KQED shows the hate crime he charged against suspect Sidney Hammond, who allegedly assaulted an Asian American father with a baby stroller on April 30, 2021, were eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DA’s office verified as much and explained that, after charging, they received additional evidence that did not support hate crime charges, including a San Francisco police officer stating in a report that the incidents were not hate motivated. As such, the office was “ethically obligated” to dismiss the hate crime enhancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And no hate-related charges were pursued against the suspect who kicked Liao out of his walker in the Tenderloin. According to the latest court documents, Ramos-Hernandez has been referred to mental health treatment and was released with a GPS tracking monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect pushing Ratanapakdee to death, Antoine Watson, remains in custody and is charged with murder. No hate crime-related charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, who is one of Boudin’s toughest critics, pointed out the importance of charging hate crimes but also acknowledged that hate crimes are notoriously difficult to charge because they hinge on proving intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you feel like you’re being targeted for that reason, they want to feel vindicated,” said Jenkins. She added that victims of the crime want to see charges that truly capture and reflect the “full scope of someone's conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hate crimes are “one of the only charges that require the DA’s office to prove motive for the underlying crime,” she said. In other words, it requires that someone has made a verbal expression regarding the victim’s identity, or shows a clear pattern of targeting over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two cases with hate crime charges, among the dozen reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard, and both of them reflect those patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A serial vandalism suspect, Derik Barreto, was charged by DA Boudin for nearly 30 counts of hate crimes as he allegedly targeted Asian-owned businesses, breaking their windows. Barreto provided a lengthy interview with the police explicitly saying he had some delusions “around the surveillance capabilities of Chinese,” court documents reveal. In this case, Barreto verbally admitted targeting Chinese-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge in the case ordered Barreto to be released, even though the DA’s office opposed the decision. After missing his court date, he’s now facing a bench warrant arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other case where hate crime charges emerged involved a suspect robbing multiple Asian women. The suspect, O’Sean Garcia, allegedly showed a pattern of targeting victims with the same racial identity. Garcia was released, too, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the DA’s office showed that a total of 20 cases included hate crime charges in 2021, both standalone misdemeanors and hate crime enhancements, which are tacked onto felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many of those 20 cases in 2021 are categorized as anti-Asian as opposed to hate directed toward other identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not every hateful incident is a crime, as the California Attorney General’s Office laid out in a memo explaining the difference between the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Constitution allows hate speech as long as it does not interfere with the civil rights of others,” the office\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes\"> wrote in the advisory\u003c/a>. “While these acts are certainly hurtful, they do not rise to the level of criminal violations and thus may not be prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Solving hate through community — and data\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In mid-May, leaders from San Francisco’s Asian and Black communities came together at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in the Western Addition to urge authorities to pursue more hate crime charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is every human being’s birthright,” SFPD Capt. Yulanda Williams said. “Exploitation of our Asian-Pacific Islander community will no longer be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two Asian men and a Black woman sit at a long white table in a church's gymnasium, facing left, speaking to a crowd off-camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/20220509_134548-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Captain Yulanda Williams, speaking in her capacity as a civilian, addresses anti-AAPI hate crimes at a press conference at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on May 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That joint press conference between Black and Asian leaders at Third Baptist Church was convened with the idea that the Black community needed to stand in solidarity with Asian people in calling for more hate crime enhancements, upping the charges suspects face. But Tinisch Hollins, head of Californians for Safety and Justice, said sometimes people react to crime with efforts that ultimately perpetuate racism, and racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a very real sentiment that there are populations of individuals who cause problems and make the city and community unsafe and less desirable,” Hollins said. “And Black people, specifically Black men and boys, are at the top of that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the high-profile cases reviewed by KQED and The SF Standard feature a mix of suspects, across ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While public discussion around Asian communities frequently references the need for more safety — pushing that word, \"safety,\" in particular — Hollins said that can be a societally palatable code for pushing out Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Public safety’ right now, I feel like it’s a very covert way of naming it,” she said. It also focuses solutions on incarceration instead of giving mental health help, housing and education to people who may need it in order to reduce incentives for crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, importantly, research shows that steeper charges — which hate crime enhancements would bring — and longer sentencing don’t reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnus Lofstrom, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/proposition-47s-impact-on-racial-disparity-in-criminal-justice-outcomes-june-2020.pdf\">his research on Proposition 47\u003c/a>, which reduced some felony thefts and drug offenses to misdemeanors, has shown that reducing prison populations doesn’t lead to a rise in violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins was raised in the Bayview, near where Zhou was attacked, and said she wasn’t surprised that initial attempts to make peace between Zhou and Grayson bore no fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we at all agreed that there are better ways to resolve the kind of social conflicts that come up in our communities, especially when racial tensions are involved,” she said, “you might have a lot more buy-in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both hate crimes and hate incidents are significantly underreported, Lofstrom added. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant communities face particular barriers to reporting due to insufficient language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underreporting is a phenomenon state officials are trying to fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, authored AB 1947, which would require California law enforcement agencies to standardize data collection on hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting frequently touts San Bernardino as an example of lax data collection. In 2021 the Southern California county didn’t report a single hate crime. “And in a population so large, given everything that’s going on, it’s really hard to believe,” Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting that data is especially important, Ting said, so communities can be level-headed about real threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often with law enforcement, with public safety, we’re driven by fear,” Ting said, “and we’re driven by anecdotal stories and anecdotal incidents and not really by trends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of incidents are top of mind for Rita Sinha, a 67-year-old South Asian immigrant living in the SoMa neighborhood for 10 years, who said she already feels less safe in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used to visit churches like Glide Memorial, libraries, parks, grocery stores and medical facilities, she said, “without fear of being robbed or assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, however, “It’s very scary when you walk outside,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting’s bill passed the Assembly at the end of May. While data may one day drive solutions, for now fear remains persuasive.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"12cases\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>High-profile assaults against the AAPI community, revisited\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED and The SF Standard revisited these 12 high-profile assaults against Asian people in San Francisco in 2020 and 2021, checking the status of those cases in court, following AAPI community concern over the prosecution of hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>84-year-old man assaulted — suspect released after mental health program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg\" alt=\"An older man seen here in a black jacket and sunglasses, with a pond behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1020x1203.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1303x1536.jpg 1303w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo01_Rong-Xin-Liao-1737x2048.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rong Xin Liao was viciously kicked out of his seated walker onto the ground in San Francisco's Tenderloin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Franciscans for Public Safety Supporting the Recall of Chesa Boudin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On February 20, 2020, Rong Xin Liao, an immigrant and senior, was kicked to the ground while he was waiting at a bus stop, standing with his walker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, was arrested and charged with assault and inflicting injury on an elder. He was initially placed on mental health diversion and released, later switched to behavioral health court, and recently released, in early April 2022. His next court date is in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Senior collecting recycling robbed and assaulted — suspect released, pending trial\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes. Later the charges were dropped.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 30, 2021, an Asian father with a baby stroller \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-asian-hate-crime-man-attacked-grocery-store-sf/10575684/\">was assaulted in front of a grocery store\u003c/a>. The suspect, Sidney Hammond, was initially charged with hate crimes, and later the charges were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammond remains in custody and was granted permission by a judge to enter a mental health diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Two senior women stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng.jpeg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Chui-Fong-Eng-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chui Fong Eng, 85 (left). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Run Qin Xie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 5, 2021, two elder Asian women, including 85-year-old Chui Fong Eng, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills\">were stabbed in broad daylight in a downtown bus station\u003c/a>. The incident in the Tenderloin neighborhood was caught on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Patrick Thompson, was arrested and charged with attempted murder. He remains in custody and the case is pending trial. 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It was initially investigated as a hate crime by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras remains in custody since his arrest and was placed in a mental health treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>94-year-old woman stabbed — suspect in custody, pending trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg\" alt=\"A split screen shot of an older woman, the left of her in a hospital bed, the right of her standing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo10_Anh-1536x858.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Peng Taylor, the 94-year-old victim stabbed in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the family of Anh Peng Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On June 16, 2021, 94-year-old Asian immigrant woman Anh Peng Taylor was stabbed in broad daylight in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, Daniel Cauich, was on an ankle monitor and later arrested for the attempted murder charge. The case is pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Man accused of half of San Francisco's hate crime surge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11915745 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance footage from outside a storefront shows a man pulling back a slingshot.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo11_Vandalism-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance footage from June 15, 2021, of Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism and is considered responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derik Barreto, who has been accused of targeting dozens of Asian-owned businesses for vandalism, is allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/anti-asian-hate-crimes-spiked-in-sf-by-more-than-500-in-2021-but-just-1-man-accused-of-half-the-crimes/\">responsible for half of the anti-Asian hate crime surge in San Francisco in 2021\u003c/a>. He was granted mental health treatment and later released. The district attorney’s office argued to reject the motion to release him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After release, Barreto failed to show up in court. His release was revoked in January last year. The court has now changed his status to “fugitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Robberies targeting Asian women — suspect charged with hate crime, released while case is pending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11915746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg\" alt='Women at a stop Asian hate rally hold a protest sign reading \"PROUD ASIAN AMERICAN.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Photo12_Women-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters during a rally to show solidarity with Asian Americans at Embarcadero Plaza on March 26, 2021, in San Francisco. Hundreds of people marched through downtown San Francisco and held a rally at Embarcadero Plaza in solidarity with Asian Americans who had recently been the targets of hate crimes across the United States. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced multiple charges of robbery with hate crime enhancement against O’Sean Garcia, who is accused of targeting Asian women. He was released and the case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Note: This story is a partnership between \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to cover the district attorney recall election.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Han Li can be reached at han@sfstandard.com or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@lihanlihan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">\u003cem>Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez can be reached at jrodriguez@kqed.org or on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.twitter.com/FitztheReporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>@FitztheReporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]uneral director Brian Kestenblatt stepped up to the microphone last October with a glass of red wine in his hand and a top hat on his head. “Happy Halloween,” he said dryly to the audience, the four tiers of the San Francisco Columbarium rising up around him like a wizard’s tower. Beside him stood a table decorated with real pieces of tombstone – and copies of the book “Silent Cities: San Francisco,” ready to be signed by author Jessica Ferri. Urns full of candy stood like sentries by the entry at the Halloween-themed book event, one of many types of public gatherings that take place at the columbarium. The crowd, some dressed as skeletons and vampires, milled about with plates of cheese and fruit, their conversations drifting up the neoclassical rotunda where thousands of cremains rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elegant columbarium — officially the San Francisco Columbarium and Funeral Home, owned and operated by Dignity Memorial — occupies its corner of San Francisco’s Richmond District with a stoic beauty, its verdigris dome poking out from graceful hedges, trickling fountains and rose-draped trellises. The building was constructed in 1898 as a centerpiece for the Odd Fellows Cemetery, one of the “Big Four” burial grounds that stretched across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to have a grand entrance with steps leading up to it from Geary Boulevard just east of Arguello Boulevard; now it's only accessible from Loraine Court. Tucked away in the pocket of a dead-end street, the columbarium is one of the most famous San Francisco places you’ve probably never heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Heather Cann, former columbarium office manager\"]'You feel San Francisco in these walls. The rich history of its beginnings, the eccentricity of its residents and the passion for this city that binds it all together.'[/pullquote]\"I hear it every day,\" Kestenblatt told KQED. \"Someone comes in and says they've lived in the city their whole life and never knew about this place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium has rooms named after mythological winds and constellations, and an addition called “The Hall of Olympians” to continue with the classical theme. A 1899 Odd Fellows publication describes it as “without exception the most beautiful and elaborate building in the world, used exclusively as a repository for the ashes of the dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 1914, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to remove all human remains from the city. This led to a long and complicated process to relocate bodies to the necropolis of Colma, where the dead outnumber the living 999 to 1. The cemeteries were gone, but the columbarium and its ashes — now a designated historic landmark — remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_10779164 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2026/12/exhume-1440x1218.jpg']The columbarium, the only place where anyone can leave their heart forever in San Francisco, is a nesting doll of stories. There are the stories of the people whose ashes line the walls of the rotunda, people like \u003ca href=\"https://dante-the-magician.com/\">Dante the Magician\u003c/a> (1883-1955) who performed for kings, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lindahall.org/dorothea-klumpke-roberts/\">Dorothea Klumpke Roberts\u003c/a> (1861-1942), a groundbreaking astronomer who has two asteroids named after her. There are also the stories of the stewards of this place — celebrants and caretakers, funeral directors and managers — characters who bring creativity and humor to conducting the business of death in a most unusual place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tales of the columbarium’s forever tenants don’t stay behind the glass-fronted doors of the niches that contain their cremains. They float through the four tiers of the golden rotunda, haunting the stewards charged with their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stewards of the columbarium not only take care of the building and memorials; they protect its residents’ stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t do tours, I tell stories,” Crystal Hoffman said, her dark eyes flashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman moved from China to San Francisco in 2003 and has been working as a family service counselor at the columbarium for eight years, a job she can’t seem to quit. Hoffman organizes events where those who have purchased a niche can meet their future forever neighbors — people who have purchased adjoining or nearby niches. The event, usually held in the summer, was suspended for the past two years because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-800x727.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-1020x927.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-160x145.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-1536x1396.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal Hoffman, family service counselor at the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoffman acknowledged the difficulty of her line of work but also the great rewards. Tears sprang to her eyes when she told the story of a man who died one week before he was supposed to get married. “His wedding became a funeral,” she said, gesturing to his niche, which contained a bundle of letters tied with pink fluorescent yarn, photographs, miniature black-and-white Nikes, and a Casio watch. It was still ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrant Paul Harpring, who described his job at the columbarium as half emcee, half minister or rabbi, loves telling the stories of people who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little details that bring someone back, not the biographical facts of their life,” he said. When preparing for a service, he talks to as many people as possible to get the full spectrum of someone’s history. “Everyone has their own unique relationship to the person who passed. The same person can be a different person to kids, friends, colleagues,” he said. He likens his work at the columbarium to a weighted blanket — heavy, but also grounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most haunting story for Hoffman is about a young woman from China, an immigrant who reminds her of herself, who worked night and day to take care of her family. The woman looked young in her photograph, but when Hoffman saw her body at an open-casket ceremony, she seemed old and shriveled. While the columbarium holds only ashes, many families choose to have an open casket funeral on-site and then do a smaller placement ceremony once the ashes return from an off-site crematorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman couldn’t get the image out of her mind. The night after the young woman’s funeral, Hoffman saw her ghost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was sitting next to me with long hair, touching my head very gently, telling me not to work so hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-800x1019.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-1020x1299.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-160x204.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-1206x1536.jpg 1206w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-1608x2048.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior rotunda of the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The intense demands of the funerary profession — “people don’t die nine to five” and “there’s no holidays in this business” are sayings within the industry — lead many to see it as a service position akin to a firefighter, teacher or police officer. It’s a calling, not a career, and it’s one that often feels preordained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high school aptitude test suggested funeral director as a job for both Harpring and Kestenblatt. After shadowing a funeral director in his native Rochester, New York, Kestenblatt became so enamored with the work that he ran home and told his dad what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. “Couldn’t you pick something a little more lively?” his dad asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those working in the funerary profession have been on the front lines of the pandemic, though they are often not recognized in the way that grocery clerks, mail carriers and doctors have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are essential workers,” Harpring said, “and we never stopped working during the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ferri, author of “Silent Cities: San Francisco,” agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Funeral directors are the best people. They remind me of teachers — they wouldn’t do it if they didn’t love it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the intense challenges come deep rewards. Kestenblatt, who has mentored numerous people for careers in the funerary profession, is always trying to find more people to work in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so rewarding when you get a letter from a family saying, we couldn’t have gotten through this without you,” he said. “That’s more rewarding than any paycheck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the rigorous demands of the job, funeral directors have learned how to imbue levity into their profession, in what is perhaps a necessary survival technique. “They take their work seriously but also have a great sense of humor,” Ferri said. Kestenblatt served coffee in a mug that said “Embalming Fluid (concentrated)” and Hoffman joked that her “neighbors” who have niches next to hers can’t die until they pay off their “forever apartment.” Hoffman, who bought her own niche years ago, proudly shows it off to other potential customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harpring loves to make people laugh during services and tries to get stories from family members that will elicit giggles. “You get the full emotional spectrum at a service,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the creativity and the freedom I have here,” said Kim Rifredi, caretaker of the columbarium. She organized the Halloween book signing and has photoshopped the landmark’s dome pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The families who choose the columbarium tend to be creative as well, according to Rifredi. “I often find myself thinking, gee, I wish I knew that person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-800x729.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-1020x930.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-1536x1400.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Rifredi, caretaker of the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Creativity, perhaps, is baked into the funerary profession. During the training for his funeral director license, Harpring did an activity in which he and a partner pulled three characteristics of a death — who died, where and how — from a bowl full of options. They then had to use their imagination to devise a service appropriate to the person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium is a crucible of creativity, “every niche a poem, every room a novel,” as Bob Yount from Green Street Mortuary said. Yet perhaps the biggest tale the historical landmark is trying to tell is one of San Francisco itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The columbarium is a love letter to San Francisco,” said Serena Brockelman, a former family service counselor at the columbarium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a beautiful piece of San Francisco history,” Harpring agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-800x649.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-1020x828.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-1536x1246.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Coit Tower-shaped fountain adorns the grounds of the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a Coit Tower-shaped fountain on the grounds, urns in the form of the painted ladies of Alamo Square and a longstanding embrace of the queer community, the columbarium and its tenants embody the spirit of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An array of characters inhabit its walls — people like Harry August Jansen, a Danish-born professional magician known as Dante the Magician, who traveled the world in the early 1900s and invented the famous catchphrase “Sim, Sala, Bim.” Dante the Magician and a grocery store owner are forever neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s somewhat random, but it just feels right,” Harpring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-1536x1012.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A niche at the columbarium pays tribute to slain San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. Milk's ashes no longer reside in the building, but his family kept the niche in his honor. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are also San Francisco celebrities: Harvey Milk, influential political powerbroker Rose Pak, and the father of Carlos Santana. Milk’s family has since decided to move his ashes elsewhere, but they kept the memorial niche in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anchor Steam brewery founders Otto Schinkel and Ernst Baruth are side by side in the Notus room, Schinkel having died the most San Francisco of deaths — he was thrown from a streetcar that had slammed on its brakes — after making what would become the most San Francisco of beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you have left when you die? The stories others tell about you. We spend our lives trying to accomplish and obtain, trying to live within the parameters of what looks good. But in the end it’s often the flaws and foibles, the anecdotes, that live on forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel San Francisco in these walls,” said Heather Cann, a former office manager at the columbarium. “The rich history of its beginnings, the eccentricity of its residents and the passion for this city that binds it all together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The columbarium, the only place where anyone can leave their heart forever in San Francisco, is a nesting doll of stories. There are the stories of the people whose ashes line the walls of the rotunda, people like \u003ca href=\"https://dante-the-magician.com/\">Dante the Magician\u003c/a> (1883-1955) who performed for kings, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lindahall.org/dorothea-klumpke-roberts/\">Dorothea Klumpke Roberts\u003c/a> (1861-1942), a groundbreaking astronomer who has two asteroids named after her. There are also the stories of the stewards of this place — celebrants and caretakers, funeral directors and managers — characters who bring creativity and humor to conducting the business of death in a most unusual place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tales of the columbarium’s forever tenants don’t stay behind the glass-fronted doors of the niches that contain their cremains. They float through the four tiers of the golden rotunda, haunting the stewards charged with their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stewards of the columbarium not only take care of the building and memorials; they protect its residents’ stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t do tours, I tell stories,” Crystal Hoffman said, her dark eyes flashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman moved from China to San Francisco in 2003 and has been working as a family service counselor at the columbarium for eight years, a job she can’t seem to quit. Hoffman organizes events where those who have purchased a niche can meet their future forever neighbors — people who have purchased adjoining or nearby niches. The event, usually held in the summer, was suspended for the past two years because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-800x727.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-1020x927.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-160x145.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HoffmanColumbarium-1536x1396.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal Hoffman, family service counselor at the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoffman acknowledged the difficulty of her line of work but also the great rewards. Tears sprang to her eyes when she told the story of a man who died one week before he was supposed to get married. “His wedding became a funeral,” she said, gesturing to his niche, which contained a bundle of letters tied with pink fluorescent yarn, photographs, miniature black-and-white Nikes, and a Casio watch. It was still ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrant Paul Harpring, who described his job at the columbarium as half emcee, half minister or rabbi, loves telling the stories of people who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little details that bring someone back, not the biographical facts of their life,” he said. When preparing for a service, he talks to as many people as possible to get the full spectrum of someone’s history. “Everyone has their own unique relationship to the person who passed. The same person can be a different person to kids, friends, colleagues,” he said. He likens his work at the columbarium to a weighted blanket — heavy, but also grounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most haunting story for Hoffman is about a young woman from China, an immigrant who reminds her of herself, who worked night and day to take care of her family. The woman looked young in her photograph, but when Hoffman saw her body at an open-casket ceremony, she seemed old and shriveled. While the columbarium holds only ashes, many families choose to have an open casket funeral on-site and then do a smaller placement ceremony once the ashes return from an off-site crematorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman couldn’t get the image out of her mind. The night after the young woman’s funeral, Hoffman saw her ghost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was sitting next to me with long hair, touching my head very gently, telling me not to work so hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-800x1019.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-1020x1299.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-160x204.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-1206x1536.jpg 1206w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/ColumbariumRotunda-1608x2048.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior rotunda of the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The intense demands of the funerary profession — “people don’t die nine to five” and “there’s no holidays in this business” are sayings within the industry — lead many to see it as a service position akin to a firefighter, teacher or police officer. It’s a calling, not a career, and it’s one that often feels preordained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high school aptitude test suggested funeral director as a job for both Harpring and Kestenblatt. After shadowing a funeral director in his native Rochester, New York, Kestenblatt became so enamored with the work that he ran home and told his dad what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. “Couldn’t you pick something a little more lively?” his dad asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those working in the funerary profession have been on the front lines of the pandemic, though they are often not recognized in the way that grocery clerks, mail carriers and doctors have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are essential workers,” Harpring said, “and we never stopped working during the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ferri, author of “Silent Cities: San Francisco,” agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Funeral directors are the best people. They remind me of teachers — they wouldn’t do it if they didn’t love it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside the intense challenges come deep rewards. Kestenblatt, who has mentored numerous people for careers in the funerary profession, is always trying to find more people to work in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so rewarding when you get a letter from a family saying, we couldn’t have gotten through this without you,” he said. “That’s more rewarding than any paycheck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the rigorous demands of the job, funeral directors have learned how to imbue levity into their profession, in what is perhaps a necessary survival technique. “They take their work seriously but also have a great sense of humor,” Ferri said. Kestenblatt served coffee in a mug that said “Embalming Fluid (concentrated)” and Hoffman joked that her “neighbors” who have niches next to hers can’t die until they pay off their “forever apartment.” Hoffman, who bought her own niche years ago, proudly shows it off to other potential customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harpring loves to make people laugh during services and tries to get stories from family members that will elicit giggles. “You get the full emotional spectrum at a service,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the creativity and the freedom I have here,” said Kim Rifredi, caretaker of the columbarium. She organized the Halloween book signing and has photoshopped the landmark’s dome pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The families who choose the columbarium tend to be creative as well, according to Rifredi. “I often find myself thinking, gee, I wish I knew that person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-800x729.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-1020x930.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-160x146.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RefridiColumbarium-1536x1400.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Rifredi, caretaker of the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Creativity, perhaps, is baked into the funerary profession. During the training for his funeral director license, Harpring did an activity in which he and a partner pulled three characteristics of a death — who died, where and how — from a bowl full of options. They then had to use their imagination to devise a service appropriate to the person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium is a crucible of creativity, “every niche a poem, every room a novel,” as Bob Yount from Green Street Mortuary said. Yet perhaps the biggest tale the historical landmark is trying to tell is one of San Francisco itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The columbarium is a love letter to San Francisco,” said Serena Brockelman, a former family service counselor at the columbarium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a beautiful piece of San Francisco history,” Harpring agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-800x649.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-1020x828.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CoitTowerFountain-1536x1246.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Coit Tower-shaped fountain adorns the grounds of the San Francisco Columbarium. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a Coit Tower-shaped fountain on the grounds, urns in the form of the painted ladies of Alamo Square and a longstanding embrace of the queer community, the columbarium and its tenants embody the spirit of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An array of characters inhabit its walls — people like Harry August Jansen, a Danish-born professional magician known as Dante the Magician, who traveled the world in the early 1900s and invented the famous catchphrase “Sim, Sala, Bim.” Dante the Magician and a grocery store owner are forever neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s somewhat random, but it just feels right,” Harpring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/HarveyMilkNiche-1536x1012.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A niche at the columbarium pays tribute to slain San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. Milk's ashes no longer reside in the building, but his family kept the niche in his honor. \u003ccite>(Julie Zigoris/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are also San Francisco celebrities: Harvey Milk, influential political powerbroker Rose Pak, and the father of Carlos Santana. Milk’s family has since decided to move his ashes elsewhere, but they kept the memorial niche in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anchor Steam brewery founders Otto Schinkel and Ernst Baruth are side by side in the Notus room, Schinkel having died the most San Francisco of deaths — he was thrown from a streetcar that had slammed on its brakes — after making what would become the most San Francisco of beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you have left when you die? The stories others tell about you. We spend our lives trying to accomplish and obtain, trying to live within the parameters of what looks good. But in the end it’s often the flaws and foibles, the anecdotes, that live on forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You feel San Francisco in these walls,” said Heather Cann, a former office manager at the columbarium. “The rich history of its beginnings, the eccentricity of its residents and the passion for this city that binds it all together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913549/mayor-breed-taps-sf-police-spokesperson-matt-dorsey-to-fill-vacant-board-of-supervisors-seat\">swore in Matt Dorsey\u003c/a> as the newest member of the city’s Board of Supervisors, filling the District 6 seat left vacant after Matt Haney was elected to the state Assembly last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey has worked for years as director of strategic communications for the San Francisco Police Department and, before that, served as press secretary for then-City Attorney Dennis Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In choosing Dorsey, who is considered a relative moderate, Breed will likely get a more reliable ally on the board than she had in Haney, who often criticized her management of the city. But she also risks alienating some of her constituents who are likely to consider Dorsey’s police affiliation a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The location of the swearing-in ceremony — the \u003ca href=\"http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/\">Delancey Street Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides rehabilitation services and vocational training programs for formerly incarcerated people and those recovering from substance use disorder — was chosen to acknowledge Dorsey’s own recovery experience, and as a symbol of his intent to address the city’s overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s appointment of Dorsey also sets the stage for a battle over the seat in November, when Haney’s preferred choice, and his former chief of staff, Honey Mahogany, is expected to run for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Natalia Navarro sat down with KQED Politics and Government Editor Scott Shafer, who attended Monday’s swearing-in ceremony, to discuss what Dorsey’s appointment means for San Francisco’s District 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NATALIA NAVARRO: \u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p0-0\"}]'>Scott, the swearing-in took place at Delancey Street on the Embarcadero, which is well known as a substance abuse recovery program for people who leave prison. Why did Mayor London Breed choose that location? \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER: \u003c/strong>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p1-0\"}]'>Delancey Street has very strong ties to the Democratic establishment in the city. Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, John Burton — you could go on and on about all the people who have held press conferences there on Election Night. And it’s also very symbolic. Matt Dorsey, who is the new supervisor, has struggled with addiction. He calls himself a three-time graduate of recovery programs, and he’s had lapses as recently as a couple of years ago. And he talked about that. One other thing about Dorsey is he’s openly gay, he’s HIV-positive. And I think those are kind of real-life experiences that may have appealed to the mayor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I mentioned that Dorsey is transitioning now from director of strategic communications for the Police Department to becoming a city supervisor, which is bringing a lot of criticism from progressives. Is that right?\u003c/strong>[aside postID=\"news_11913549\" label=\"Related Post\"]Yeah, just recently, Supervisor Dean Preston held an oversight hearing looking into the kind of miscommunications that the Police Department’s been putting out, some allegations that maybe it wasn’t always forthright or honest. You know, in fairness, that’s what PR departments do in agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other aspects to Dorsey’s experience. He worked 14 years in the City Attorney’s Office as communications head. So I think he does know the city well. He’s an operative in government and politics and campaigns. But yeah, that Police Department role does rub some people the wrong way for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Should we expect crime and policing to play a bigger role in the upcoming election for the seat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p7-0\"}]'>Yeah, it is already a big issue everywhere in the city. We have the recall of the district attorney, Chesa Boudin, on the ballot in June. I talked to Mayor Breed about that and why she chose Matt Dorsey. And she said she had talked to a lot of people who live in District 6. Dorsey will be on the ballot in November, where he’ll face the voters for the first time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does this appointment change the dynamics on the board and how it gets along with Mayor Breed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t much. He is replacing Matt Haney. Haney was a sometimes-ally of the mayor. Dorsey’s a little more conservative by San Francisco standards, but it really doesn’t change that. I mean, the mayor does not have a great relationship with the board. She does not have a majority of votes, and I don’t think that will change with this appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many people were hoping that Breed would appoint Honey Mahogany, a Black transgender woman who served as Matt Haney’s political aide. And she’s now expected to run against Dorsey in the next election. Why do you think Breed opted for Dorsey over Mahogany?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think because Dorsey will be a more reliable ally on the board than Honey Mahogany will be. She’s, I think, much more independent. I talked to Mahogany earlier today. She was disappointed. But you can tell she’s already getting her campaign for the fall ready. She is going to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you expect that race between them to stack up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany’s very charismatic. There will be a historic aspect to her candidacy, being Black and transgender. We also don’t know who’s going to jump in to the race, so it may not just be the two of them. And then, of course, it is also a ranked-choice election. So we don’t know yet what the dynamics are going to be, but it’ll be lively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>District 6 has changed as a result of recent redistricting, and it no longer includes the Tenderloin. How is that likely to change the district in one political direction or another?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new district includes South of Market, South Beach, Rincon Hill, the mid-Market area, but no longer includes the Tenderloin. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has tapped Matt Dorsey, the openly gay director of strategic communications for the San Francisco Police Department who has also struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol, to fill the Board of Supervisors District 6 seat left vacant by the election of Matt Haney to the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a longtime public servant, Matt Dorsey knows how the city works, and as a member of the recovery community, he can bring new energy and commitment to the crisis of addiction that is fueling our overdose crisis and impacting neighborhoods throughout this city,” the mayor said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In choosing the relatively moderate Dorsey, the mayor will likely get a more reliable ally on the board than Haney, who often criticized Breed’s management of the city. But she also runs the risk of alienating constituents who will see Dorsey’s relationship with the SFPD as a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, including Assemblymember Haney, were hoping Breed would appoint Honey Mahogany to lead District 6. Mahogany served as Haney’s chief of staff and would have been the first transgender member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I do understand why she would want to appoint someone maybe that was closer to her,” Mahogany told KQED. “But I think that the residents of District 6 actually need someone who knows what they’re doing, who has experience\u003ci>.” \u003c/i>She cited her work in Haney’s office on behalf of issues including public safety and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment of Dorsey sets up an electoral conflict for November with Mahogany. But as some have noted, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/05/sources-mayor-to-tap-matt-dorsey-for-d6-supervisor-triggering-high-stakes-political-brawl/\">it may also serve as a proxy battle\u003c/a> between Mayor Breed and the newly elected Haney, backing Dorsey and Mahogany, respectively, at a time when Breed is gearing up for her own election. Breed appears to be banking on the electorate’s mood shifting to favor a candidate with strong ties to the police, like Dorsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, who has experienced decades of substance use disorder and recovery, hopes to use that experience in his new position.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Honey Mahogany, District 6 supervisor candidate\"]‘I think that the residents of District 6 actually need someone who knows what they’re doing, who has experience.’[/pullquote]“I’ve been open about being in recovery before, but I never thought to be this open about it,” Dorsey told KQED. “But at this moment with the public health crisis that we have, I hope I can make a difference,” he said, referring to the relentless numbers of overdose deaths on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco recorded 640 accidental overdose deaths in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-05/2021%2005_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner\u003c/a>. Roughly 20% of those deaths were in the South of Market neighborhood, which Dorsey will now represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey sees a direct connection between rampant open-air drug dealing, addiction and overdose deaths in San Francisco and some of its other most vexing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think when you consider things like homelessness and street conditions and theft and recent auto burglaries, a lot of this stuff, if we can make progress on drug use, getting more people into recovery, I think we’ll see progress on a lot of things. I’m optimistic about what we can do,” Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not well known to the general public, Dorsey has been a fixture in San Francisco politics, campaigns and government for decades. He spent four years on the San Francisco Democratic Party board. After 14 years as press secretary to City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Dorsey became a partner in a local communications company. He returned to the public sector in 2020 to head the SFPD’s strategic communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment of a former SFPD staffer comes at a time of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\">rising fear of crime in San Francisco\u003c/a>, leading to contentious debates over whether increased policing is needed in the city. And from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897148/rash-of-organized-weekend-robberies-target-luxury-stores-across-the-bay-area\">smash-and-grab robberies at luxury stores in Union Square\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/elderly-asian-woman-beats-up-man-attacking-her-in-san-francisco/\">to high-profile attacks against members of the Asian American community\u003c/a>, that debate is taking place in neighborhoods Dorsey will represent, including downtown, South of Market and Mission Bay.[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]“There’s obviously some concern around Mr. Dorsey and some of his work for the police,” said former San Francisco Police Commissioner John Hamasaki. Hamasaki referred specifically to a public relations campaign to discredit District Attorney Chesa Boudin while Boudin’s office was prosecuting a police officer for excessive use of force. The SFPD alleged that Boudin’s office had violated a memorandum of understanding between the police and the DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamasaki, who is a critic of the SFPD, said “it created this aura that the district attorney was cheating in this case. But the facts that it was based on were misrepresented. It called into question, you know, what the police were doing with their taxpayer money and the resources in the media unit, and then also how that ultimately affected the trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who worked with Dorsey in the City Attorney’s office is state Sen. Scott Wiener, who called Dorsey “a rock-solid choice” for the job. Wiener, who like Dorsey went to the Board of Supervisors from the City Attorney’s office, said it’s useful experience for a supervisor to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can say that being in the City Attorney’s Office, you see how city government works and how it’s not working,” Wiener said. “You’re involved in every aspect of city government, and you truly see the good, the bad and the ugly. So Matt is not going to need a huge education in terms of how the different departments are functioning and what needs to be done better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dorsey, who said San Francisco must do more to address the lack of affordable housing in the city, said he’ll bring his own experiences as a resident to help prioritize the issues he’ll emphasize. “I choose not to own a car. I commute generally by Bikeshare. I am a renter, so I think transportation will be important,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dorsey, who also is HIV-positive, sees a resemblance to the city’s drug problems with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s. “The stigma of who is dying is masking the horror of how many are dying,” Dorsey said. “And as somebody who remembers what those days were like, I just keep thinking that this is where a voice from this recovery community is needed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, Dorsey is a staunch defender of the SFPD, saying that under Chief Bill Scott the police department has made tremendous strides implementing reforms that have reduced unlawful use of force and policies and practices that landed the previous police chief in hot water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">t is a better police department than people think it is,” Dorsey said, adding that the rank-and-file officers don’t get the credit other first responders have gotten during the pandemic. “They were making a lot of the same sacrifices that nurses and firefighters and EMTs and others were — just not being appreciated.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just last week, Dorsey’s future colleagues, led by Supervisor Dean Preston, criticized the media relations job Dorsey’s office is doing, saying the SFPD was highlighting information that made the police look good with the goal of getting more city funding, while underplaying persistent problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand to what extent taxpayer funds are being used to help shape media and public narrative on these controversial issues,” Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s comment came at a meeting of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee that he called to explore issues related to the SFPD’s communications operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Bill Scott has often sparred with District Attorney Chesa Boudin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913102\">who is facing a recall election\u003c/a>. Asked whether he supports Proposition H, the June 7 measure to recall Boudin, Dorsey hedged, saying he is “authentically undecided,” adding that “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have some complicated issues around my [SFPD] department’s relationship with the district attorney. And, we’ll see.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to give some thought to it and pray on it and talk to the DA and talk to some others and hear from my residents,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Dorsey’s opponents are already gearing up to face him in his first election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney, who said “I have nothing bad to say about Matt,” noted that Mahogany was better suited to represent the district given her experience dealing with issues like affordable housing, homelessness and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1523544352949039106\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Dorsey] writes press releases for the police and for a lobbying firm,” he said. “That’s very different than someone who has been in the trenches working to keep a community safe, to build housing. 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