Asian health care worker attacked in Los Gatos (CA).

[RandySF]

LOS GATOS, Calif. (KRON) — Police are calling on the public for help in connection with a suspected hate crime against a woman of Asian descent in Los Gatos.

What makes this case even more disturbing, is that the victim is a health care worker.

Los Gatos Police Chief Peter Decena took to the internet this week in connection with the March 30 attack on a 40-year-old woman of Filipino descent, by a man on a bicycle, as she walked along Los Gatos Boulevard near Garden Lane.

The woman was not seriously hurt, but the incident calls to mind the reason behind citizen patrols in San Jose and elsewhere in the Bay Area in the wake of other hate crimes directed at people of Asian descent.

That the woman is a health care worker makes the attack that much more difficult to comprehend, says the Asian Law Alliance’s Richard Konda.

Los Gatos police described the suspect in Tuesday’s attack as a white or light-skinned Hispanic man. He wore a black or gray helmet, dark neck gaiter, a black t-shirt with white writing and dark colored jeans.

Our inquiries at a nearby gas station and other businesses turned up no surveillance video as police are calling on the public for help.




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[dalton99a]

1. POS coward attacked her from behind and told her to "go back to fucking China"

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Not something I expect in Los Gatos really. Someone should tell these idiots that the next virus

from China is going to be one that's bioengineered to target people who express hate for AAPI people.

Stupid as most of them are, they might just believe it and chill the hell out.

Glad hear it wasn't serious injury at least. Get Well Soon!

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. Bay Area is pretty diverse

Los Gatos isn't a hot spot of violence and hatred, at least I didn't think so. This troubles me because the Bay Area is fairly diverse. Japantown, Koreatown, and Chinatown in San Jose and San Francisco. Samoans, Filipinos, there's a virtual UN right there on the Peninsula. If it happens here....

Just like the MAGAts imported and embraced Islamic Extremist fashion sense and truck parade culture, we're looking at White Supremacist's last gasp. We'll see insurgents attacking The Other (Black, brown, Asian, vaguely eurasian/not quite white enough) until our home grown Taliban are chased back into their caves.

Just as the former guy set that harsh tone at the top an dit trickled down into society, Biden is setting a much more harmonious tone at the top. It may take time to trickle down into society, but there are more of us than there are of them. Love > hate.

[Sympthsical]

5. It's always happened here. It's always happened everywhere.

For a long, long time. We just didn't pay much attention to it, because Asians had never really been considered very oppressed when it comes to our racial politics. I mean, just last year, pre-Covid, I kept reading articles about how Asians are "white adjacent" and didn't really count. (Boy, did those articles disappear fast)

Look at the acronym BIPOC that started cropping up everywhere the past few years. Black and Indigenous People of Color. It literally screams No Asians. Look at how Asians have been getting squeezed out of higher education opportunities because there's "too many" of them. Did we care? Not really.

I've lived around the Bay Area for a long time now, and there has always been strong anti-Asian sentiment. Oakland in particular. You'd read about attacks, harassment, and discrimination in small, local papers and nowhere else.

Only now are people really getting into it. Two reasons, and they're both related. One, Trump started his anti-Asian shit. And two, now it can be pinned on white people. Because the fact of the matter is, white people aren't exactly the only ones going after Asians. Not by a long, long way. Ask any Asian in Oakland what ethnicity their attackers tend to be. It's not Karen from the suburbs.

But that is one hell of an uncomfortable conversation, so people on our side who are always very concerned about racial politics simply ignored it. Never happened. Not worth of note. I mean, Asians are pretty much white at this point, right?

As someone with probably 90% Asian friends and family in the Bay Area (my partner is Asian), it has long pissed me off how anti-Asian violence and discrimination was never taken seriously. The perception of the "model minority" - which is in itself racist - meant that Asians didn't have it so bad overall. They're all crazy successful, right? So what if a poor immigrant is abused here and there? In the scheme of things, Asians are doing awesome! They're barely on the oppression totem pole.

Yeah. I have a lot to say on this topic and how Asians have been treated in social justice circles for years. Their plight never counted. Until Trump said something. Now everyone's super concerned. People started giving a shit because it suddenly became politically useful for them to care.

I'm simultaneously glad it's finally getting attention, and disgusted by the people who now claim to care after minimizing the AAPI struggle for years, because it suited their selfish politics.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Lot of brutal truth here, sadly. Well said ...

I don't know that it's ONLY the Trump/Whites thing though.

To some extent there's also the fact that a lot of it is now getting filmed so people are seeing it, making it more real. And a lot of it is being directed at women and elderly folks, who we naturally are a bit more protective of. These factors prick up people's sensitivity more, for better or worse.

But this doesn't change the total validity of the overall points you're making, just pointing out another factor.

[dalton99a]

8. +1. The lack of prosecution over the years made the problem worse

Many if not most of the attackers in urban areas were homeless and/or nonwhite, and the powers that be were reluctant to devote resources to apprehending them unless there was a public outcry. (And victims often decided not to report the incidents as crimes because they knew that nothing would be done)

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Agreed on all ... I'm from there too :) nt

[mahina]

3. God damn him

And all who would do such a terrible low thing.

May her heart ans body heal.