Alameda County taxpayers just paid $800,000 to settle anti-Asian discrimination claims against recalled DA Pamela Price — who is now running to reclaim her old job. That settlement follows a string of high-profile cases exposing how Asian Americans are faring in the Bay Area's justice system, including the release of Vicha Ratanapakdee's killer on probation after five years of pretrial detention rendered his sentence mathematically meaningless. From Chinatown stabbings to courtroom outcomes, the gap between the violence Asian Americans are facing and the accountability they're receiving is the defining tension in this channel.
The former DA was recalled by 63% of voters and sued by four employees for racial discrimination. She's now running for DA again, while Alameda County taxpayers foot the bill.
SF Superior Court Judge Linda Colfax has a proven track record of giving violent criminals light sentences.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
Antoine Watson slammed into an 84-year-old man, left him dying on the pavement, and fled. Five years later, the system hands him the exit door.
An Asian American man was stabbed in broad daylight two days before Lunar New Year. The mayor's bodyguards got press coverage. He got bystanders who kept walking.
Now a civil rights lawsuit names the officials who told parole agents to look the other way.
ACA-7 would gut Prop 209's K-12 protections, letting race determine who gets into gifted programs. Voters said no twice. Sacramento doesn't care.
A woman tears down his flyers in the Richmond. On camera. Then explains it isn't racist. This is what erasure looks like in real time.
They are accused of harvesting grandma's ballot, pocket $777K salaries, and wield incredible political power in San Francisco. All on your tax dollars.
Helen Andrews says Asian Americans are ruining education with 'grind culture.' The data says she's lying.