Sentencing Reforms Enabling Assaults on Asians

Assaults on Asians became the major media’s crime de jour around the time that Joe Biden was sworn in as President.  For months now, we have been treated with almost daily news stories about Asians being attacked, beaten and robbed, often with very disturbing video.  The way the narrative was supposed to work was that President’s Trump’s labeling of Covid-19 as the Chinavirus led the ignorant white supremacists who voted for him to attack all Asians, because they are too stupid to single out just the Chinese.  But that narrative was debunked almost immediately when government statistics indicated that most of the attacks on Asians are committed by blacks and that this has been going on for decades.  It also turns out that most of the recent attacks are by habitual criminals left on the streets by bail and sentencing reforms championed by progressives and the major media.

The latest examples include that brutal attack on a female Asian police officer in San Francisco last Friday.  Carl Samson of Net Shark reports that the attacker, habitual felon Gerardo Contreras, who identifies as someone who “specializes in killing Asians,” has been arrested multiple times in San Francisco for aggravated assault, elder abuse and other assaults on police officers.  The story includes video showing Contreras who is twice the size of the Asian officer, hitting the woman in the face and pulling her to the ground in what a witness described as a “death hold” until several men pulled him off of her and restrained him until his arrest.  San Francisco is, of course, a Sanctuary City with uber-progressive Chesa Boudin as the District Attorney.  It is probable that if the officer had been white, black or Hispanic, the attack would not have made the news.  But because the victim was Asian, Boudin might see the political value in charging this scumbag with a hate crime.

At about 6:15 pm on Memorial Day,  security cameras in New York City recorded a black man sucker-punching a 55-year-old Asian woman, knocking her to the ground.  Stephanie Pagones of Fox News reports that the suspect, Alexander Wright has been arrested at least 17 times for various crimes and released under New York’s no-bail policy and refusal to prosecute so-called “low level” crimes.  The New York City Police Commissioner could have been talking about both San Francisco and NYC when he told reporters, “What’s the common denominator?  People that are arrested multiple, multiple, multiple times and released.”

No law abiding-person of any race benefits from so-called progressive bail and sentencing reforms.  Only criminals benefit.