A crime wave in Oakland, California’s Chinatown has rankled the community heading into the Lunar New Year, prompting celebrities to offer a reward to fight anti-Asian harassment.
In a surveillance video that has gone viral, a 91-year-old Asian man is seen being shoved to the ground from behind in Oakland on Jan. 31, his head slamming face-first into the sidewalk. It was one of three similar incidents that day, allegedly perpetrated by the same suspect.
The violence outraged Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu, who grew up in the Bay Area, went to school in Oakland, hung out at his aunt’s Chinatown bakery, and whose father is also 91.
“It really hit home,” said Wu in a Zoom inte…
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