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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: SVPete on April 16, 2026, 11:32:27 AM
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Why justice keeps failing Asian hate victims
https://thevoicesf.org/the-surprising-reason-anti-asian-hate-is-going-unpunished/ (https://thevoicesf.org/the-surprising-reason-anti-asian-hate-is-going-unpunished/)
History repeats itself. As Garry Tan concluded in his most recent op-ed about why Asian hate so often goes unpunished, it is a cumulative effect of the loudest voices that influence a courtroom, from policy briefs and op-eds to grant-funded studies and legacy media. That voice has been dominated by nonprofits like Stop AAPI Hate, which have collectively received well over $150 million in funding while betraying the very victims they claim to represent and protect. They have aggressively pushed for non-carceral solutions and restorative justice policies in California for perpetrators, in contrast to what victims and their families, like myself, have asked for — greater public safety, real accountability, timely trials, and proportionate sentencing that actually deters crime.
What did Grandpa Vicha’s trial and sentencing tell us? That the going rate for an elderly Asian life in San Francisco has become tragically cheap. That Hanako Abe’s case will likely prove equally disappointing, and perpetrators like Thea Brenda Hopkins will continue to receive drug diversion and leniency.
My family, like so many others, was abandoned by the very criminal justice system that was supposed to advocate for us, when in May 2024, our 14-year-old son was trapped on the Muni 29 bus with dozens of other students. A serial perpetrator launched into a vicious anti-Asian tirade, screaming racial slurs and brandishing a stun-gun. And while we asked regularly about the status of our case, we were ignored and even removed as victims from the case without a single notice. It was only under interim Chief Paul Yep that we finally learned the truth of what was really going on behind the scenes. Our supposed advocate at the hate crime unit was “on leave” when Chief Bill Scott was ousted.
I also learned later why KGO-TV/ABC7 News never ran the hour-long interview they did with our son after my family and two others filed police reports at our home for the Muni 29 attack. It was for the same reason that television news reporter Dion Lim was ousted for her extensive coverage of Asian hate crime victims, including the death of Yanfang Wu. Because the truth was inconvenient.
IMO, racism is afoot, on both sides of the crimes coin. On the obverse side, "too many" of the perps are "Victim Class" and commit an incovenient percentage of crimes. On the reverse side, Asians are second-class minorities, because they inconvenience Victim Ideology. I may be over-simplifying, but if so, there is reality in what I over-simplified.