A 75-year-old Asian woman says she fought back after being attacked in San Francisco

A 75-year-old Asian woman says she fought back after being attacked in San Francisco

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San Francisco police said Steven Jenkins allegedly attacked an 83-year-old Asian man in a separate incident and that he was chased by a security guard when he hit Xie.

The guard was able to hold Jenkins until police arrested him.

CNN attempted to reach Jenkins, but he is being held in San Francisco County Jail on $ 50,000 bail and cannot be reached for comment. The San Francisco Public Protector’s Office said he was not yet involved in the case.

Witnesses said he was in another altercation about 30 minutes earlier, a San Francisco police spokesman said in a statement.

The video shows a crowd of police officers, paramedics and bystanders gathered around Xie while holding an ice pack on the side of her head.

She exclaims, pointing to a man who is handcuffed to a stretcher and being treated.

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“He beat people,” Xie heard in the video, saying it in Cantonese. “He bullied me, he bullied me, jerk.”

At one point, Xie points to the man with a large stick holding her.

Police said Jenkins, 39, was taken to a hospital due to an unrelated, prior medical condition. ‘

They said the woman was not responsible for his injuries.

Jenkins was later jailed in San Francisco County on two counts of assault that allegedly sustained major bodily injury and two counts of abusing older men, police said.

Both victims were taken to hospital due to non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Police did not identify the victims and said the case was still being investigated.

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“Investigators are investigating whether prejudice was a motivating factor in the incident,” police said.

Violence and discrimination against Asian Americans has increased dramatically across the country, coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic.

The group Stop AAPI Hate says they have received at least 3,795 first-hand complaints of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans since they began detecting it in March last year.
The killing of eight people, mostly Asians, at three spas in the Atlanta area contributed to the community’s fears.

Xie told KPIX that she was leaning against a utility pole and waiting for a traffic light to change when she was hit.

She told KPIX that she had found a stick and used it to defend herself. Her daughter, Dong-Mei Li, translated the interview.

“I do not know him. Why [did] he attacks me? ‘Xie told KPIX through her daughter.

Li said her mother could not see from her left eye Wednesday night.

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“Very scared and traumatized and very hurt and this eye is still bleeding,” Li said, referring to her mother.

Xie told KPIX that she’s lived in San Francisco for 26 years.

“As you can see, she’s very scared,” Xie’s grandson, John Chen, told KPIX. “She’s terrified of even retiring.”

The SFPD said patrols were increasing in predominantly Asian neighborhoods following a “worrying increase” in attacks on Asian Americans over the past few weeks.

CNN’s Dan Simon and Augie Martin contributed to this story.

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