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Crime
Suspect arrested in connection to racial slurs painted on California state senator’s campaign signs
Kevin William Walker, 62, of Fountain Valley, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of vandalism of property worth $400 or more, after severa...
Michelle De Pacina
Home
CA state senator suggests MAGA behind racial slurs on his campaign signs
Signs promoting Korean American state senator Dave Min’s congressional campaign in Huntington Beach, California, were vandalized with a raci...
Chinese man arrested for vandalizing Japanese war dead shrine
Jiang Zhuojun, a Chinese national living in Japan, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring with two others in the widely reported v...
Carl Samson
14-year-old boy suspected of setting fire to SF Chinatown robotaxi
San Francisco police have identified a 14-year-old boy suspected of setting fire to an autonomous vehicle during Lunar New Year celebrations...
Seattle approves $50,000 for Wing Luke Museum repairs after alleged hate crime
The city of Seattle has approved funding for the Wing Luke Museum after the damages it suffered from last year’s vandalism. Key points: ...
Missouri man charged with hate crimes for vandalizing Asian restaurant, church
A 20-year-old man from Chesterfield, Missouri, has been charged with hate crimes over his alleged involvement in the vandalism of an Asian r...
China
Abandoned, graffiti-covered skyscrapers in LA become unexpected tourist attraction
Three skyscrapers adorned all over with spray-painted graffiti on a real estate project in downtown Los Angeles have become an unexpected at...
Wing Luke Museum staffers speak out after anti-Asian vandalism
Months after falling victim to a hate-fueled vandalism, the staffers at Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum are speaking out for the first time...
Bryan Ke
American tourist faces investigation for graffiti spree on over 155 locations in Seoul
The suspect told investigators that he simply wanted to raise awareness about the seriousness of his severe bruxism ...
Ryan General
Canada
Alleged serial vandal charged over graffiti incidents in Vancouver’s Chinatown
According to the BC Prosecution Service. there has been a staggering 455% surge in reported graffiti in the historic neighborhood since 2019...
Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum receives $100,000 for vandalism recovery
The City of Seattle and the Washington State Department of Commerce are providing $100,000 in financial assistance to the Wing Luke Museum f...
Business
Pho restaurant in Texas faces repeated vandalism in recent months
“Every day I go home, I think to myself, did I do something wrong?” owner Alvin Inthasone was quoted as saying ...
Portland’s Chinese Festival attracts crowd after local Chinese garden vandalized
‘If someone thinks we’re not welcome we don’t care about it because we just show our love and know most of the people are ...
Cops fatally shoot hatchet-wielding burglary suspect in Orange County, California
A man accused of breaking into a home in Orange County, California, was shot dead by deputies on Wednesday morning, according to reports. Wh...
Chinese man arrested for spraying anti-US graffiti on US Consulate in Hong Kong
A Chinese man was arrested for allegedly vandalizing the gate of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong with white paint on Tuesday morning, accord...
Man wanted for spray-painting anti-Asian message on NYC liquor store
New York City police are searching for a man accused of vandalizing a liquor store with anti-Asian graffiti. The incident reportedly occurre...
Man pleads guilty to breaking off thumb of terracotta warrior worth $4.5 million
The Delaware man who broke the thumb off a priceless terracotta warrior statue lent to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia by China in De...
Video captures axe-wielding man in China destroying ex-boss’s Mercedes-Benz
Authorities in southern China have arrested an axe-wielding man after he heavily damaged his former boss’s Mercedes-Benz car while intoxicat...
Mob of masked teens trash Chinese restaurant in Queens, causes $20,000 in damages
Police are searching for a mob of masked vandals who barged in and trashed a seafood restaurant in Queens, New York. On March 4, a group of...
Men in clown wigs splatter fake blood onto walls of Vancouver’s Chinese garden
A group of young men wearing clown wigs were spotted splattering fake blood onto the walls of a Chinese garden in Vancouver. The group was s...
Florida senior beaten with a bat, gets tires slashed in suspected anti-Asian attacks
An Asian American senior in Miami-Dade, Florida, is moving to a new home after allegedly being targeted twice by the same man because of his...
Vandalism of California mosque triggers call for hate crime probe
A mosque in Tracy, California, fell victim to vandals on New Year’s Eve. The incident, which was caught on surveillance video, occurred at t...
Welcome sign of Bangladeshi town in Michigan vandalized
A tight-knit Bangladeshi American neighborhood in Detroit saw its welcome sign defaced last week, an incident community leaders believe was ...
Vaults for the dead smashed in North Dakota Muslim cemetery vandalism
Five concrete vaults used in burials were found destroyed on Friday at the Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead (ISFM) in North Dakota. Staff...
American man arrested for smashing man’s car in Thailand
A 45-year-old American man, identified only as Andigo, was arrested in Thailand on Wednesday for smashing a man’s car and threatening his f...
Man arrested, then released without bail, for destroying Gandhi statue in NYC
Sukhpal Singh, 27, was arrested for his alleged role in vandalizing a Mahatma Gandhi statue outside the Shri Tulsi Mandir in Queens, New Yo...
News
‘Such racism’: Vandals attack billboards of 3 Asian candidates in New Zealand
Three candidates of Asian descent running for a seat in Auckland, New Zealand — Howick Ward Councilor Paul Young, first-time candidate Vins...
Vandalism of second Gandhi statue in New York City prompts calls for hate crime charges
A Mahatma Gandhi statue outside a Hindu temple in South Richmond Hill in Queens, New York, was vandalized on Aug. 3. The toppled-over stat...
Bay Area
SF restaurant owner frustrated after city fines him because of constant graffiti on his business
A business owner expressed his frustration over the repeated graffiti vandalism of his San Francisco restaurant after receiving a violation ...
Salon vandalized after being misidentified as business of Orlando woman in anti-Asian rant video
Iris Mejia, owner of Beauty Bar Orlando, has reportedly been receiving death threats since June 13 after a woman with a similar business wa...
‘NO G**KS’: San Leandro man arrested for vandalizing neighbor’s home with anti-Asian graffiti
Nicholas Swyers, 25, was arrested on Monday for allegedly spray-painting a home in San Leandro, California, with anti-Asian graffiti. The ...
Customer kicked out for not wearing pants smashes windows, doors of Chinese restaurant in Queens
A man booted out of 4 Choices & A Soup on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens, retaliated by smashing glass windows and doors at the r...
Suspect wanted for vandalizing Portland Asian community center with graffiti linked to terrorists
Portland police are looking for an individual accused of vandalizing an Asian immigrant and refugee community center in the northeast part o...
Art
San Francisco Chinatown mural defaced with profanity, ‘your mom’ jokes
A popular mural in San Francisco’s Chinatown fell victim to vandalism last week. The mural, known as the Tiger Dragon, was painted on the ...
New York
Vandalism of life-sized Gandhi statue in NYC condemned by Indian consulate as ‘despicable’
A bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in New York City’s Union Square was vandalized on Feb. 4. Vandals reportedly covered the statue with a c...
Vandals deface historic Chinese garden in Vancouver’s Chinatown with graffiti, urine and feces
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, which opened in 1986, is the first Chinese or “scholar’s” garden built outside China. A weekend ...
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