The family of an elderly man – who has been attacked numerous times on the crime-ridden streets of San Francisco – has decided America is “too dangerous” for their loved one and sent him back to his home country of China after decades of life. in the United States.
“It’s too dangerous here,” Jing Liao told the San Francisco Standard on Monday after she and her family booked her father, Rongxin Liao, 87, a one-way ticket back to his hometown of Guangzhou, Guangdong.
“The public security situation in San Francisco has gotten worse and worse,” Liao added, revealing that his father had been brutally attacked several times while in San Francisco.
Rongxin Liao was the victim of a high-profile case in 2020 when security footage caught a crazed man jumping and kicking her as she sat in her walker waiting for a bus on the streets of the depreciating city.
The Chinese immigrant, who speaks little English, has appeared in court several times to ask the judge to hand down a harsher sentence to his attacker.
Rongxin Liao was attacked without provocation in 2020 while she was waiting for a bus on the street in San Francisco. KGO
His attacker, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, was only imprisoned for seven months, then transferred to a mental health clinic, and then released for treatment at home, the Standard reported.
Rongxin Liao suffered severe head injuries as a result of the attack.
The grandfather was attacked again on Oct 1. 2023, as he walked down Market Street in Downtown San Francisco, his son revealed.
A police report obtained by the outlet showed an 86-year-old Asian man matching Rongxin Liao’s description was punched that day and sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Liao’s attacker, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, received a light sentence for attacking an elderly Chinese immigrant. KGO
Rongxin Liao himself also told the Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily on Monday that he was attacked in the city seven years ago while walking to church.
The 87-year-old man said he was knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant and woke up in the emergency room of St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital. Francis with a partially broken arm that required eight stitches.
Despite being questioned by the police several times, her assailant was never found, and the case was dropped.
“I don’t want to be an obstacle for my son here,” Rongxin Liao told Sing Tao Daily. “I don’t want him worrying about me all the time.”
Liao and his family decided it was safer for him to return to China after he was attacked several times over the past few years. KGO
The family decided to send their old man home so that he could live out the rest of his days in peace with his brother Jing Liao in China.
Liao held a farewell dinner with some of his older friends in Chinatown on Sunday to say goodbye after 24 years of living in America.
Before he leaves America this Saturday, he will visit the hospital again to check his eye injuries caused by the last attack.
Many of the homeless residents of San Francisco, California, are associated with various crimes, including drug-related activities and theft incidents. Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
Assaults across San Francisco decreased by 4.9% in 2023, according to the latest crime statistics.
However, in 2022, attacks in the city have jumped a staggering 8.8% compared to 2021.
Following his attack in 2020, videos of violent attacks and members of Rongxin Liao’s family will emerge in recall campaign ads against then District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
The ad, which aired in May 2022, claims that since Boudin was elected DA, hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased 567%.
Boudin was ousted from his role in June 2022 after fed-up San Francisco voters voted to recall the weak-on-crime DA following a spike in brazen shoplifting, car break-ins and rampant drug dealing.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
