China News Service, August 17th. According to the US "Qiao Bao" report, on August 16th, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced that it had filed 33 charges against Derik Barreto, including hatred. The criminal charges involved 27 independent incidents involving 20 businesses primarily owned by Chinese descent.
The District Attorney's Office claimed that the series of crimes that occurred between April and August this year were racially motivated.
The suspect Barreto was tried on the afternoon of August 16.
Bochers said: "We will never tolerate violence or hatred in San Francisco. Chinese businesses should be able to operate without fear of vandalism, burglary, or harassment. ) The community stands together against hatred and will do everything in its power to make sure everyone feels safe."
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Barreto with the following counts: 27 felony vandalism, 4 second-degree felony, 1 misdemeanor of possession of a tool of theft, 1 misdemeanor of possession of a hidden weapon, and 31 concomitant hate crimes. Charge.
According to reports, all 27 vandalism allegations stemmed from incidents that occurred between April and August this year, when Barreto was allegedly riding a scooter and smashing the windows of 20 independent shops.
The District Attorney's Office also charged five counts of second-degree burglary based on five different incidents, accusing Barreto of taking cash and other items after entering through the broken windows of these shops.
Based on Barreto’s statement to the police, the District Attorney’s Office charged 31 hate crime enhancement measures, which showed that he deliberately committed crimes against businesses that he believed to be ethnic Chinese, and his motive was the race and nationality of the victim.
The District Attorney Bochers has repeatedly condemned the disturbing trend of crime against the Asia-Pacific Pacific Islander community.
He pointed out that since the beginning of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the incidence of hatred and violence against the community has risen sharply, which is deeply worrying.
"We will not tolerate it, and we will do our best to stop it."
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office encourages people who may have witnessed or experienced hate crimes to call the office’s hate crime hotline, report crimes, and bring criminals to justice.
(Wu Zhuoming)