Two Asian Women, 55 And 60 Get Brutally Assaulted And Robbed In San Francisco

he San Francisco Police Department is increasing patrols in predominately Asian neighborhoods following an "alarming spike in brazen anti-Asian violence in recent weeks" in the Bay Area, the department said.

In this incident, 2 Asian women aged 55 and 60 were violently assaulted and robbed.

Black on Asian crime has skyrocketed in areas like San Francisco and Oakland over the past year.

Claims that there is a "slap an Asian" challenge going on in the Bay Area have put San Francisco police on alert.

Word of the so-called "challenge," in which people are told to slap people of Asian descent on public transit, has been spreading on social media this week. One viral post says a challenge-related assault occurred last Friday.

n early February, Asian-American community leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area organized protests after the killing of an older Thai man and a spate of attacks in Oakland’s Chinatown. Prosecutors, politicians and police chiefs called the attacks intolerable and vowed to crackdown.

But in the weeks that followed, reports of violence against people of Asian descent have multiplied in the Bay Area. In many cases attacks have come in broad daylight on busy streets.