LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect in an alleged assault by a pro-Palestinian group on Jewish men outside a restaurant last week. Samer Jayylusi, 35, of Whittier was arrested in Anaheim and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a police statement...
Police Say 1 Arrested in Attack on Jewish Men in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police on Saturday announced the arrest of a suspect in an alleged attack by a pro-Palestinian group on Jewish men outside a restaurant earlier in the week. A police statement, which did not identify the man, said he was arrested on suspicion of assault with...
Man Now Faces Hate Crime Charges After Fresno Protest Altercation
A Fresno man arrested over the weekend on charges he pepper sprayed three pro-Palestinian protesters, now faces hate crime enhancements. Brian Lee Turner, 62, was arrested Sunday morning, hours after a confrontation with protesters, some of which was captured on video and posted to social media. The video shows a...
2 Asian American Women Stabbed in San Francisco Attack
SAN FRANCISCO — Police arrested a man who they said is suspected of stabbing two Asian American women without warning Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood. Officers sent to the scene shortly before 5 p.m. found the wounded women, who were taken to a hospital. There was no immediate...
Doormen Fired for Failing to Intervene in Anti-Asian Attack
NEW YORK — Two New York City apartment building workers have been fired for failing to help an Asian American woman as she was being violently attacked on the sidewalk outside, the building's management company said Tuesday. Surveillance video of the March 29 attack near Times Square showed that the...
SoCal Man Charged with Throwing Rocks at Asian Woman, Child in Car
FULLERTON — A Southern California man has been charged with throwing rocks at an Asian woman and her 6-year-old son as they drove down the street last month, authorities said Monday. It comes as violence against Asian Americans across the country has ramped up in the last year, including several...
Hate Crimes in US Reach Highest Level in More Than a Decade
WASHINGTON — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday. There were 51 hate...
Report: Anti-Semitic Crimes Rose in California in 2019
LOS ANGELES — Anti-Semitic hate crimes in California rose nearly 12% in 2019, including a fatal shooting at a Southern California synagogue, even as hate crimes overall declined statewide by 4.8%, according to a state report released Wednesday. Hate crimes are historically under-reported and the 2019 data compiled by the state...
Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Poway Synagogue Shooting Suspect
SAN DIEGO — Federal officials announced Thursday that they have filed 109 hate crime charges against the man suspected of opening fire in a Poway synagogue and said he called a 911 dispatcher afterward to report that he had done it to "defend my nation" against the Jewish people. The...
Chabad Fresno Gathers to Remember Poway Shooting Victims
Rabbi Levy Zirkind took the shooting Saturday (April 27) in Poway personally. He knows Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. The two attended Yeshiva (seminary) together in Brooklyn during the 1980s. Zirkind’s son, Rabbi Mendel Zirkind, is friends with Goldstein’s son. Their wives went to school together as well. Both...