Posted on 12/16/2021 2:50:42 AM PST by nickcarraway
Six men have been arrested in connection to a string of robberies allegedly targeting Asian women in the Bay Area, concluding a yearlong investigation, according to authorities.
Authorities said the six suspects worked together on more than 70 incidents of robbery, theft and burglary from October 2020 to September 2021. Firearms, including one ghost gun, were recovered during the investigation.
Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Michael Robinson of Stockton; Cameron Alonzo Moody, 27, of East Palo Alto; Derje Damond Blanks, 23, of San Jose; Hassani Burleson Ramsey, 24, of Oakland; Clarence Jackson, 21, of East Palo Alto and Malik Short, 21, of Tracy were also charged with hate crime enhancements by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, San Jose police said in a Wednesday news release.
More than 100 Asian women throughout Santa Clara County and the Bay Area were targeted in the crimes, according to Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who added that the prosecution of the case is ongoing. Some of the women were injured during the crimes.
“They targeted Asian women, they thought Asian women don’t use banks and they made other ethnic slurs against Asians,” Rosen said at a Wednesday press conference in the Little Saigon neighborhood of San Jose. “I decided to charge this also as a hate crime for a few reasons. Number one, it adds additional time in custody, which is appropriate for a case of this magnitude. Number two, I recognize that a hate crime doesn’t only affect the individuals involved… it also affects the people in the Asian American community who were not targeted in that it makes them fearful that they may be next.”
Over the course of the yearlong investigation, authorities used cell phone evidence, video surveillance, search warrants, interviews and other methods to determine that 177 robberies throughout
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Let’s go, Brandon voters.
They look like typical white supremacists, exercising their white privilege...
They can say Asian women but they can’t say black men.
A bullet to the head of each would solve the problem and prevent any breeding and future problems.
Mo’ dem well disguised, high melanin content White Supremacists spreading violence and hate...
Now, now. Don’t waste ammo.
No doubt bro. The only things they are missing, are their MAGA hats, nooses, bleach, tickets to the latest Empire showing, and, oh yes, the Subway sandwiches they stole from the victims. 😀🤗
Those patriot front racists again?
Except this isn’t China.
Article yesterday made it sound like nobody knew the race of these clowns.
Obama’s sons-—busy at doing what THEY do best.
IF accurate shooting, then 6 bullets isn’t a waste.
IT is a Double Hat Trick....
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