Antoine Watson, the man who body-slammed 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee to death in 2021, walked free from a San Francisco courtroom this week after a judge suspended his sentence — a result made mathematically inevitable by California's pretrial credit rules and years of trial delays. The case has renewed scrutiny of how anti-Asian violence is charged and sentenced in San Francisco, from the Chinatown stabbing two days before Lunar New Year to a landmark civil lawsuit over the parole failures that led to the deaths of Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt.
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.
Grandpa Vicha's killer just walked on murder charges. It's time to build a new generation of AAPI leaders who won't sell out their elders.