While Ferguson continues to burn, violent crimes continue unabated.

Murders and violent attacks in
New York City.  St. Louis.   ?

(Blacks react as if they personally knew or were related to Michael Brown, while Asians are simply too fearful to have a reaction other to euphemistically and pathetically protest "attacks against minorities" and the violence that killed their loved ones.  History, again, repeats itself).

Asian lives matter, too.   (So do those of whites, Hispanics, and others).



NOV. 18, 2014

Man Charged With Fatal Shoving of New York Subway Rider

By J. DAVID GOODMAN 


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Kevin Darden, 34, was arrested on a murder charge Tuesday. 

CreditEdwin J. Torres for The New York Times

A man was charged late Tuesday in the fatal shoving of a subway rider in the Bronx after he was taken into custody earlier in the day in a separate assault at a Manhattan subway station this month, the police said.

The man, Kevin Darden, 34, was arrested on a murder charge in the death of the rider, Wai Kuen Kwok, 61, who was shoved into the path of an oncoming subway train on Sunday, the police said. Mr. Darden, who was located in the Bronx near his last known address, was believed to appear in surveillance video leaving the scene of the killing.

During the three-day manhunt, the victim of an earlier shoving episode, a 51-year-old man pushed to the platform of the West Fourth Street subway station on Nov. 6, told the police that he had been attacked by the same man who appeared in the video from Sunday.

“You shouldn’t walk in front of me,” the assailant told the man, according to the police, before shoving him to the ground. “I’m warning you."

The police said investigators believed Mr. Darden was the same person seen on surveillance video walking calmly from the 167th Street station minutes after Mr. Kwok was killed just before 8:45 a.m. Mr. Kwok had been standing on the platform with his wife.

Other riders on the platform did not see the attack, but they told the police that the man they saw leaving the station was the same man shown in the video, who was seen boarding a bus two minutes later.

Until the man assaulted in the West Fourth Street attack, who is also Asian, identified Mr. Darden on Tuesday as his attacker, no probable cause had existed to arrest him. But shortly after tying him to the earlier crime, Police took Mr. Darden into custody on the street near his mother’s home on Grand Avenue in the Bronx. He was unarmed and went with detectives without a struggle, the police said.

On Twitter, the chief of detectives, Robert K. Boyce, praised the work of detectives “on the arrest of Kevin Darden, individual wanted in connection with the homicide in transit.”

A woman who identified herself as Mr. Darden’s mother said in an interview on Tuesday before his arrest that Mr. Darden had not lived there in months, adding, “He is homeless.”  She said she had spoken to detectives and was cooperating with the investigation.

The building’s landlord, Shiouli Rahman, who lives at the adjoining address, said Mr. Darden was one of the woman’s two sons. Mr. Darden’s brother lives in East Texas. In 2011, Mr. Darden was arrested there, according to court records, and charged with pouring gasoline over his brother’s home in an apparent attempt to light it on fire. The case ultimately did not go forward, the local news media reported.

The killing on Sunday rattled riders across the subway system and immediately raised questions about a motive for the apparently random attack. Mr. Kwok’s wife, Yow Ho Lee, 59, told investigators that the man who attacked her husband said nothing before shoving Mr. Kwok and fleeing.

For several minutes afterward, the man who would soon be the subject of a manhunt by the police appeared to behave as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened — boarding a bus, getting off nearby, smoking a cigarette.

Waiting for an F train in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, Joe Wu, 35, said that the attack had frayed the nerves of subway riders as well as those of the city’s Asians. “There’s a lot of people who are talking about it,” he said. “If you look at the past few times this has happened, it’s been Asians.”

Mr. Darden has an extensive history of arrests, including, most recently, on Nov. 9 in Manhattan on a pickpocketing charge. After spending several days in jail, he was released on Friday pending a court date in January.

He was connected to the surveillance video, the police said, by a detective who believed he recognized the image of the man and pieced together his identity from arrest photographs and other information.

Two wanted posters were circulated on Tuesday among officers and residents in the Bronx.

One, bearing a video image of an unnamed man leaving the 167th Street station, was distributed widely. The other poster, with Mr. Darden’s name and a police photograph from a previous arrest, was shared only among those involved in the search or questioned by the police; it was not made public.By late Tuesday, however, the police had released a picture of Mr. Darden, as the suspect in the West Fourth Street attack.

A couple of hours after Mr. Darden was arrested, Tatiana Nunez, 27, leaned against a railing in the middle of a subway platform at the West Fourth Street station. She said she never waited near the yellow stripe.

“Because of that,” she said, referring to the fatal push. “Because of anybody that’s walking fast or might push you by mistake.”

See also
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/man-arrested-subway-shoving-killed-bronx-man-article-1.2015432

* And on the other coast,

I think Asians, like others, know what it is like to on the receiving end of violent unprovoked attacks by strangers.

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. man beaten in Oakland dies - suspects held

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, April 21, 2010

 
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Tian Sheng Yu is seen in a photo from 2007. Yu and his son, Jin Cheng Yu, were beaten by attackers Friday in Oakland.

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About 200 community members gather at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, to denounce a beating on Friday that ended with the death of 59-year-old Tiansheng Yu. Police said Yu and his son Jin Cheng Yu, 27, both of San Francisco, were shopping in downtown Oakland Friday afternoon when suspects Lavonte Drummer and Dominic Davis confronted the son and punched him without warning. When the father later confronted them, they allegedly punched the elder Yu, causing him to fall and strike his head on the pavement. (AP Photo/The Oakland Tribune, Laura A. Oda) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES; MAGS OUT

When Jin Cheng Yu asked his father to come with him to Oakland for a quick shopping trip, Tian Sheng Yu was hesitant. Oakland is dangerous, the San Francisco resident said.

The younger Yu reassured his 59-year-old father that downtown Oakland, where the jewelry shop they planned to visit is located, was safe. On Friday, however, it was where the elder Yu suffered a beating from which he never recovered.

Yu died Tuesday, four days after he was knocked to the ground on Telegraph Avenue when he confronted two young men who had sucker-punched his son moments earlier. His relatives' sobs could be heard in his room at Highland Hospital when doctors removed him from life support, friends said.

His death came the same day police announced the arrests of two 18-year-old suspects, both of whom have arrest records as juveniles for robbery. Lavonte Drummer and Dominic Davis of Oakland were identified with the help of numerous tipsters, many of whom were outraged by the attack on the 1800 block of Telegraph Avenue, police said.

Widow's words

Just hours after her husband's death, Zhi Rui Wang, 56, her face etched with pain, thanked police, the media and the community at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in the city's Chinatown at a gathering that was originally scheduled to support her husband. The meeting instead became a focal point for people to rally against violence, especially attacks on minorities and the elderly.

"Even though my husband is gone, I will be strong, because I want us to join together to make sure that this won't happen to another family," Wang said in Mandarin to the crowd of several hundred people. Among those in attendance were Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley and members of the City Council.

'The best father'

Yu emigrated from China with his family in 1998 and ran a painting and remodeling business. Wang described him as "a nice person, nice to everybody," who had a good sense of humor and was always happy. "I'm very sad now," she said.

Jin Cheng Yu, 27, reached by phone Tuesday afternoon, said he hoped the attackers are "punished very seriously."

"I miss my father so much," he said. "He was the best father."

Carl Chan, an Oakland Chinatown organizer who has been working with Yu's family, said of the son, "I know he's still blaming himself for asking his father to come to the city of Oakland to shop with him.

"I told them it really is not your fault," said Chan, who recounted the last moments of the elder Yu's life from conversations he had with the family.

Men held without bail

Yu, he said, was doing what "any father would do" when he confronted the two assailants and asked them why they had punched his son in the face.

The men turned on the father, knocking him to the pavement and beating him, before walking away. Yu never regained consciousness and died at 11:27 a.m. Tuesday.

Davis and Drummer are each being held without bail on suspicion of murder. Alameda County prosecutors will decide whether to file charges.

Drummer turned himself in about 5 p.m. Monday at Oakland police headquarters after a member of the clergy contacted investigators about his surrender, said Lt. Brian Medeiros of the homicide detail. His family could not be reached for comment; a woman's voice on his voice mail described him as her husband.

Davis was arrested by Oakland police as he rode a bike near Carleton and Sacramento streets in Berkeley at about 7:50 p.m. Monday. Davis, who turned 18 on Saturday, the day after the attack, didn't give up immediately but cooperated once he was stopped, police said.

"He knew he was on video, that he was on the news," Medeiros said.

Video that police released over the weekend shows two young men walking on the street near the time of the attack; investigators described them as the suspects. Police said Tuesday that they have another video that shows the actual assault.

Many called in tips

"We had numerous people who called and gave us information that led us to the capture of these suspects, and I'd like to applaud this community," Police Chief Anthony Batts said at a news conference.

"There is no room in a civilized society for this kind of maddening, violent assault upon human beings," said Mayor Ron Dellums, who joined police officials at the news conference. "It should be beyond us as people."

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-man-beaten-in-Oakland-dies-suspects-held-3266940.php#photo-2329923

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Son-describes-Oakland-assault-that-left-father-3267298.php

Why do Asians tend to minimize or ignore the racism they see in their lives, while blacks do the exact opposite?