Hundreds of people in San Francisco marched Sunday demanding justice for 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee, who died a year ago.
at three Georgia massage spas, including six women of Asian descent ranging in age from 44 to 74. There’s disagreement among officials whether those attacks were racially motivated, but the deaths have rattled Asian Americans, who see bias.
Vicha Ratanapakdee encouraged his oldest daughter to move to the U.S. more than two decades ago to pursue a master’s degree in business at the University of California at Berkeley. He and his wife were living with Ratanapakdee, her husband and the couple’s two sons, now 9 and 12. San Francisco’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, has charged Watson, who is Black, with murder and elder abuse but not with a hate crime, frustrating the family. Watson’s attorney, Sliman Nawabi, has said his client was not motivated by race, and the assault stemmed from a mental-health breakdown.
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