In the days leading up to the Lunar New Year holiday last week, San Francisco’s Chinatown had young people on foot, patrolling its streets. They said they weren’t there to do anything but keep an eye on things.
“What we want to do is make our elderly feel safe,” William Lex Han told a NBC affiliate in San Francisco. “There are a lot who are out and about right because of the Chinese New Year- the new year want them to feel safe.”
This comes after there have been more than two dozen attacks and robberies in Oakland and San Francisco in the months prior.
In late January an 84-year-old San Francisco man who had immigrated from Thailand was killed after he was shoved on his morning walk.
Attacks like these have continued despite President Biden’s executive action banning the federal government from employing “inflammatory and xenophobic” language like “China plague” and “kung flu.”
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In the days leading up to the Lunar New Year holiday last week, San Francisco’s Chinatown had young people on foot, patrolling its streets. They said they weren’t there to do anything but keep an eye on things. “What we want to do is make our elderly feel safe,” William Lex Han told a NBC affiliate in San Francisco. “There are a lot who are out and about right because of the Chinese New Year- the new year want them to feel safe.” This comes after there have been more than two dozen attacks and robberies in Oakland and San Francisco in the months prior. In late January an 84-year-old San Francisco man who had immigrated from Thailand was killed after he was shoved on his morning walk. Attacks like these have continued despite President Biden’s executive action banning the federal government from employing “inflammatory and xenophobic” language like “China plague” and “kung flu.” Asian Americans continue Asian Americans continue
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