Several different community groups are stepping up patrolling the streets of Oakland to ensure the safety of our older Asian community who have been the focus of recent attacks. Groups like Asian's with Attitudes who is lead by a man named James say that the hate needs to stop so they are patrolling Chinatown in hopes to deter any further violence.
Compassion in Oakland is another group who has joined the movement lead by Jacob Azevedo. He has more than 160 volunteers involved asking them to walk the elders to their cars, wait with them as their wait for rides and even accompany them to run their daily errands.
In the most recent attack that just happened Tuesday, an Asian man was robbed of thousands of dollars outside of Bank of America in San Leandro on Marina.
Let's hope these hate crimes will stop with the help of brave members of community.