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Asian American residents in Oakland Hills, California, are on high alert due to a string of home invasions targeting Asian families. Police’s internal advisory: There have been about 50 home invasion robberies cases involving elderly Asian families, reported ABC7 News after obtaining an internal advisory from the Oakland Police Department. According to law enforcement, the robberies may be connected to a group of criminals. Elderly victims: In one harrowing account, an 80-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife were at home with their two grandchildren when robbers broke through a window on Monday. The couple was reportedly held at gunpoint for...

Shocking video shows three teens harassing an Asian family of tourists aboard a New York City subway train before attacking one visitor and a Good Samaritan who was trying to film the encounter. Now, the NYPD is seeking the identities of the suspects - who were all black - in an assault being investigated as a hate crime. Sue Young, 51, and her family, were visiting the Big Apple from Nevada, when they were approached by three teens who were laughing and pointing at them on Thursday night around 8pm while they were riding the F train at the West...

A video circulating on social media over the weekend shows a group of people brutally beating an Asian man inside a lower Manhattan subway station. The video, which appeared to be filmed at the Fulton Street station, showed the man being pummeled by two men as a third holds him up as if a human punching bag. One of the men rounds up and slaps the man in the face. His body appears to go limp until a second man delivers a round of punches to his head. The group cheers and applauds the beating.

More than half a century since they were modernized, hate crime laws in the U.S. are inconsistent and provide incomplete methods for addressing bias-motivated violence, according to a new report by advocates for better protections. The report, first shared with The Associated Press ahead of its Wednesday release, is a comprehensive national review of hate crime laws that shows gaps and variances in the laws. Due to the complexity of hate violence, certain statutes meant to protect racial minorities and marginalized groups are less effective, as a consequence of bias in the criminal justice system, the report says. The existing...

A woman attacked two Cleveland beauty store owners last Friday after her prepaid debit card had been declined. Video obtained by WJW-TV, Cleveland's Fox affiliate, captures the attack at Chic Plus Beauty Supply. The surveillance video showed the woman, who has not been identified, knocking down a male owner and dragging a female owner from behind the counter by the hair while punching her. She also destroyed counters and displays. WJW reported the owners are originally from South Korea, but have lived in the Cleveland area for 25 years. Police told the station the woman would face assault and vandalism...

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A frightening scene caught on camera as an elderly Asian couple is attacked and robbed returning home from grocery shopping. Then a hero emerges, their own son – wielding a machete. Surveillance video showed four black people approach an elderly couple of Asian heritage and attempt to rob them while beating them. The son of the couple, who did not want to be identified and did not want his neighborhood revealed, said the incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. PDT on Monday Video below: Twitter LinkThe son says he’s glad he was home at the time. “I heard my mom...

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating a video showing a man beating an Asian man relentlessly aboard a subway car before choking him until he appears to be unconscious. Originally posted on Twitter by user @AsianDawn4 early Monday, the tweet of the video purports the violent incident took place aboard a Manhattan-bound J train at the Kosciuszko Street station in Bushwick. Police have not confirmed these details. The nearly minute-long video appears to begin with a scuffle between the two men already in progress. The footage shows a man dressed in all black then begins to repeatedly punch the...

A man went on an anti-Asian tirade after being asked to wear a mask while riding a bus in Florida earlier this month. The incident, which was partially caught on video, occurred on a Miami-Dade Transit bus on the evening of March 9. Lai, who is Chinese American, asked the man and his companion, a white woman, to wear masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.(snip) Lai told the Miami New Times. “My dad is 76, and I can’t afford to bring COVID home.” However, the pair of commuters still refused to cover their faces. This forced Lai to...

Despite the fact that the massage parlor massacre, in which six Asian women were killed, was not officially declared a hate crime by the authorities, public outrage over anti-Asian sentiments remains high all across the nation. New York mayor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, had to leave the anti-racism rally due to the outraged participants, which on Friday have taken to the city streets to protest the Georgia massacre and the possible racial motive behind it. In the very beginning of the video shared on social media, the mayor is being escorted away from the protest, while someone in the crowd...