By then, Boudin had told reporters that there was no evidence from the police suggesting that Vichas death was motivated by racial animus. San Francisco police have arrested 19-year-old Antoine Watson of Dale City on suspicion of murder, along with Malaysia Goo, 20, for allegedly serving as an accessory after the attack. Allen Martin reports on the first court appearance by the 19-year-old suspect who fatally assaulted an 84-year-old San Francisco man last week (2-3-2021) }) He gets talked about as though he's some little baby minor. Before sitting down, he glanced toward the back of the room and smiled when he recognized a young man. He was booked on suspicion of murder, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. Due to the pandemic, the court had reopened at limited capacity to an enormous backlog. Body camera footage of the encounter led officers to identify Watson and a female associate he was with at the time of the assault. Video footage shows the teen running at Ratanapakdee and pushing him over, knocking him to the ground. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. He told Monthanus that when the time came, he wanted to be scattered in the bay, the place that became his home. These laws can add time to an underlying sentence; in California, they can extend a sentence by three years. Ratanapakdeewas walking in the city's Anza Vista neighborhood on the morning of Jan.28 when he was violently shoved to the ground in whatBoudinreferred to as "a horrific, senseless attack". a white gunman killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. "The rise in hate incidents against Asian Americans during the pandemic is alarming. We also identified his female associate as 20-year-old Maylasia Goo also of Daly . The question is: Does it prevent things like this from happening again? She continued: Regardless of the laws intent, how its received is, This is disingenuous, because were using the same tools to fix the problem. She heard him say severe trauma. The officer said she would have to call the hospital to find out more. Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle. A Feb. 9 report by Stop Asian American Pacific Islander Hate foundover 2,808 firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate from 47 states and the District of Columbiabetween March 19, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2020, with 126 accounts (7.3% of total incidents)of anti-Asian hate involving Americans over 60 years old. The stories filled Monthanus with questions. When Monthanus had a gripe with the landlord or a stranger who crossed her, he would tell her to let it go, to leave it to karma. An 84-year old man is dead after a horrific daytime attack in San Francisco's Anza Vista neighborhood. hitType: 'event', She had learned small details about the suspect from her initial conversations with the police: male, 19 years old, African American. If he had been murdered, Monthanus asked Eric, why wasnt it on the news? Believe Attack Was Racially Motivated., Amanda Nguyen, a prominent activist, shared Sernoffskys report. Watson, the court documents state, had been cited for "reckless driving, speeding and failure to stop at a stop sign" in the hours before the attack. Verbal harassment made up 70.9% of incidents while shunning or avoidance comprised 21.4% of the incidents. Monthanuss body went numb. When she made it to the hill, she noticed a neighbor working in his garage and asked if he knew where the episode happened the other day. Eric said the photo, which was taken from behind and does not show a face, made the person look hateful. Im not a lawyer. By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ February 2, 2021. Watson can be seen running up to Ratanapakdee and violently shoving him in video from SF CBS Local near the corner of Fortuna and Anza Vista. After the funeral, Monthanus and Eric hired a therapist to help Titus he had not cried and seldom said anything about the episode. During one appointment, the therapist asked if he felt angry, and he replied in that sheepish preteen way, I dont know. Monthanus knew the extra sessions were probably a lot, on top of school, weekend Thai and coding classes and the therapist he already sees to manage his A.D.H.D. Antoine Watson previously pleaded not guilty to murder and elder abuse charges for the daylight attack on Anza . Thats not who he is. Steiner, who was Antoines elementary-school principal, said he needed mental-health support, not prison time. They said they didnt have the capacity to track racism, Jeung says. But we dont want to give up, because unless everybodys safe in that community, nobody is., Lyslynn Lacoste, who runs a city program called BMAGIC and works with Wans group, told me that undoing misperceptions between communities had no quick fix. There were debates among Black residents about what contributed to the shortage of affordable housing, Lacoste says, but tension also took subtler, more pervasive forms the kind she could feel most recently at a neighborhood beauty-supply store when an Asian clerk followed her as she shopped. He washed his face, put on a baseball cap and face mask and told his wife he would have the coffee she had prepared for him when he returned. Monthanus was too emotional then. San Francisco Mayor, Police Chief, DA Condemn Fatal Assaults On Seniors; Vow To Address Violence, denounced the recent rise in violent crimes in the city, 76-year-old private investigator Jack Palladino, Suspects Sought In Home Invasion Robbery Of Elderly Woman In San Francisco, Public File for KBCW-TV / KBCW 44 Cable 12. For Sarah Wan, a community organizer who has been helping victims of violence in San Francisco, the debate brought back memories from 2010, when hundreds gathered outside City Hall to protest a series of similar reports. The suspect was booked on suspicion of murder, elder abuse, and assault with a deadly weapon, KTVU reported. Ratanapakdee's head hit the pavement as he fell. Last year Ms. Monthanus, Mr. Vichas daughter, was twice accosted on the street by people who told her to leave the country because, the attackers said, Asians had caused the coronavirus. He must be happy now, because hes not coming back anymore! And sometimes, when they were alone and the guilt swelled inside Monthanus, she fell apart. Just six days after taking office, President Biden issued amemorandumcondemning "inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric" that has put Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) persons, families, communitiesand businesses at risk during the pandemic. Its not because we feel bad, Monthanus told me one evening while sitting on the bed where her father used to sleep, Titus playing video games nearby. First published on February 4, 2021 / 6:00 AM. He died of a brain hemorrhage in a San Francisco hospital two days later. This unfortunate assault has to do with a break in the mental health of a teenager. document.querySelector("#ads").addEventListener('click',function(){ As she replayed the footage again and again, Monthanus kept coming back to the same conclusion. eventAction: 'render' Monthanus knew she should find a counselor for herself, too. By William McCurry. Video footage shows the teen running at Ratanapakdee and pushing him over, knocking him to the ground. While it does not change the legal definition of a hate crime, the legislation commits funds to fast-track federal reviews of hate-crime investigations and approves grants for local law enforcement agencies. Three monks carried piles of orchids and roses, a framed photo of Vicha and a forest green box holding his remains. Since her fathers death, she and Eric agreed that no one would go out at night without him. A teenager in San Francisco was allegedly caught on video while bum-rushing an 84-year-old man, who later died as a result of the shocking daytime attack. Within one week of the websites start, Stop AAPI Hate received 673 reports of verbal and physical attacks, as well as other forms of harassment, like spitting, coughing and online threats. There was no longer any way to ignore the violence that was happening to people who look like us., Antoine Watson, a 19-year-old resident of neighboring Daly City, was arrested two days after the attack and charged with murder and elder abuse. This January, Vicha was eager to regain his stamina after a recent series of heart operations, so that he could walk again for longer distances. Throughout 2020, multiple strangers had come at her seemingly out of nowhere. },false) A young man in a gas mask and a bulletproof vest said he had flown in from New York City after seeing the video. When we go to the beach we can dream that he is with us., She plans to bring the other urn back to her fathers hometown in southern Thailand, where the local Buddhist temple has a stupa that holds the familys remains. I told him to walk that way. A preliminary hearing for the man accused of fatally pushing Vicha Ratanapakdee in San Francisco last year commenced on Tuesday, reigniting calls for justice and an end to anti-Asian violence. / CBS San Francisco. However, his comment to the Timeshassparked the hashtags#JusticeForVicha and #StopAsianHate on social media, which come amid a startling increase in hate incidentsagainst Asian Americans across the United States. gads_event = event; Antoine Watson appears in court during a previous hearing. MEAWW is an initialism for Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide. },false) . But, we can't solve a problem without knowing how big it is,"San Francisco assemblymember and chair of the state's budget committee,Phil Ting, said in a statement. Another witness said he heard a voice yelling: Why you looking at me? }); ALSO READ: San Francisco Mayor, Police Chief, DA Condemn Fatal Assaults On Seniors; Vow To Address Violence. On Twitter and elsewhere, Asian Americans lit up their feeds with an outpouring of grief and rage. Monthanus pulled him close, from behind; she didnt want him to see her crying. You have to live longer so you can watch Titus graduate from college!. I kept my promise, Dad, she said. We are one of the worlds fastest growing Then one day, after knocking on a neighbors door to ask about their surveillance footage, she returned to her car to find Troy crying in the back seat. . An uneasiness had hung over her ever since a mob descended on the Capitol early that month, though really, people had been acting crazy for a year. The Oakland attacks came as many in the Bay Area began changing their social media photos to bring awareness to the seemingly unprovoked killing of an 84-year-old Thai man in San Francisco last month. Thats when I was like: This is more than some kind of accident or robbery or assault. The support was overwhelming and odd. Police officers issued him a citation. We matter, and racism is killing us. When a video emerged showing a 91-year-old shoved to the ground in Chinatown in Oakland, Calif., the actors Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu posted a $25,000 reward for anyone who had more information on the suspect, tweeting, Remember Vincent Chin, who was beaten to death by two white men in Detroit in 1982. It was the first court appearance of 19-year-old Daly City resident Antoine Watson since he was arrested for the assault this past weekend. Shes lost her child.. In April, while patrolling San Franciscos Chinatown, a former mayor and son of immigrants from Taishan and Hong Kong pointed to the bank across the street and told me his mother was mugged there a few years ago. Another person claiming to be Vichas son had set up a fund-raiser in his name. In July, however, the F.B.I. My wife and I thought, Could it be? Jeung recalled. After several weeks, the advocate replied that the office didnt have the budget to hire a translator. Police said they were quickly able to identify Watson as the assault suspect. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. ga('create', 'UA-67136960-15', 'auto', 'ads'); If you miss Grandpa, she told him, go to his photo and say hi. Troy walked up to two framed portraits of his grandfather that now hung side by side on the wall. Everybody I talked to said it was from a Black person, he told me. Why, since her fathers death, did it feel as if there were more cases every day? As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. For a short while, Monthanus half believed it, too. You can dial 311 or 911, she reminded them. This arrest data includes all information on current and previous arrests for Antoine Watson She tried calling it. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), But the legal tampering window opens two days before that on March 13, where teams will be able to negotiate with free agents before the official start of the 2023 season. In the hours before the attack, Mr. Watson had a string of setbacks. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Following shockingly brutal attacks that left two elderly men dead last week, San Francisco officials on Tuesday sought to dispel perceptions that the city is soft on crime under the administration of a progressive, reform-minded district attorney. The nurse who picked up, however, only had more questions. He died shortly after arrival in the hospital. Then, in a jacket, jeans and a white baseball cap, he slipped out of the apartment, down two flights of stairs and into the foggy morning. College students, high schoolers and middle schoolers organized or attended rallies in their hometowns. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. A test soon showed that they had H1N1, a common strain of influenza, and their symptoms subsided within a week.