The authorities are investigating whether after the violent actions of the suspect, Patrick Thompson, there was racial motivation since throughout the country they have increased hate crimes against Asians
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Friday, November 15
Racist violence? Man arrested for stabbing of two elderly Asian women in San Francisco
The San Francisco Police Department ( SFPD ) arrested a man Tuesday after two Asian women were stabbed while waiting for the bus in the city center. The attack takes place amid increased violence against Asians since the pandemic began.
Patrick Thompson , from 54 years, he was taken into police custody around 7 p.m., two hours after he allegedly stabbed the women, of 84 Y 63 years. Authorities say Thompson faces two counts of attempted murder and two other counts of elder abuse .
Both women were transferred to the hospital to receive t treatment for multiple stab wounds, although none of them are in critical condition , the San Francisco Police Department said in a news release Wednesday.
Investigators They have not yet determined if the attack was a hate crime but they say they are investigating whether after the violent actions of the suspect there was some racist motivation .
Patricia Lee , who told the local station of ABC that he had witnessed the incident while he was working at a flower stand near the bus platform where the h echos, he assured that “it was a quite large knife, it had knuckles on the handle and the blade had holes like a military knife “.
The attack follows a recent increase in hate crimes against the Asian community that has affected not only the San Francisco Bay area but the entire country.
The organization without encouragement Instead, Stop AAPI Hate, which tracks abuses against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, has documented about 3, 780, although the number of crimes against this community could be much higher .
In recent months, in southern California there are also proliferating attacks against people who apparently they are of Asian origin .
That was the case of the brutal physical assault on Becky, a Mexican-American granny whose face was completely disfigured after of the aggression of a young woman who believed that the woman was Chinese.
In late March, Irvine Police released a video showing the hard attack by a young man on an Asian man who was walking his dog also in a public park .
Last 20 April Orange County prosecutors accused a man of hate crime for attacking last weekend an elderly Korean couple who were walking in an Orange park. Weeks before, the accused also insulted and threatened a karate fighter of Asian origin who was training in the same park.
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