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| Questions Raised After Suspect In Dozens Of Hate Crimes On SF Asian Businesses Found To Be Out Of Custody |
| 2022-01-31 |
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Questions are being raised after a man accused of being involved in over two dozen hate crimes committed against the API community last year was allowed to be out of custody despite the number of charges against him. According to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, 37-year-old Derik Barreto is the man responsible for more than half of all reported hate crimes against the API community in San Francisco last year. Barreto is scheduled to appear in court at the end of the month. Prosecutors argued against mental health diversion for the defendant, who has been charged, but is not in custody right now. Surveillance video from several Chinese-owned San Francisco businesses captured a man on a scooter last summer, smashing windows, sometimes with a slingshot, entering stores, burglarizing, and vandalizing property. Authorities said Barreto is the man responsible for a string of 27 separate attacks, many in the Ingleside neighborhood, Chinatown, and in the Ocean Avenue corridor, that haunted business owners between April and August of last year. “His target was the Asian community. So what would have happened if any of those victims were inside the stores and tried to defend themselves? This could have easily escalated into something much worse,” said former San Francisco Mayoral candidate Richie Greeberg. District Attorney’s Chesa Boudin’s office charged Barreto soon after police arrested him in August with 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools, along with one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon. Barreto was also charged with 31 hate crime enhancements, which authorities said were based on racially charged statements he made. A judge granted Barreto mental health diversion in September, according to the DA’s office. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Following his arrest, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Barreto with a total of 33 crimes, as NextShark previously reported. Those included 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second-degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools and one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon. The definition of "hate crime" really loosened up to make headlines. This while old Asians cold cocked from behind and left in a coma on the sidewalk is classified as littering. All depends on which group is doing the hating. |
| Posted by: Jusoling Ebbeang3724 2022-01-31 14:57 |
| #4 Rollo Tomassi has gone from LA Confidential to statewide. |
| Posted by: Uleremp Poodle7114 2022-01-31 14:15 |
| #3 Hello, San Francisco Asians. California is a recall state. Just sayin'. |
| Posted by: Tom 2022-01-31 11:52 |
| #2 If hate is a mental illness, it and envy and the Bolsheviks live in the same world, not ours. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-01-31 07:30 |
| #1 Committing the hate crimes whites refuse to. |
| Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-31 00:53 |