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The man suspected of stabbing two Asian American women on a San Francisco sidewalk was reportedly released early from a 25-year prison sentence due to a left-wing criminal justice diversion program. Years before allegedly stabbing two elderly woman at a Tenderloin bus stop, Patrick Thompson, now 54, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 2017 and sent to a mental institution, according to the San Francisco Chronicle – but he was granted entry into a mental health diversion program in 2019, "successfully" completing it in August 2020. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation deferred...

Police have arrested a 54-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing two Asian women at a bus stop. .... Police identified the man as San Francisco resident Patrick Thompson, .. ABC7 reporter Kate Larsen tweeted that police located the suspect after a photo of him was disseminated to officers in the field. He was taken into custody hours after allegedly stabbing the women, aged 65 and 85, while they waited for a bus on Market Street. ... The 85-year-old woman was identified as Chui Fong Eng. Her grandson told KPIX-TV that she had finished her grocery shopping in Chinatown and was...