Outrage mob demands university chancellor resign for 'racist anti-Asian' joke that generated audience laughter



Thomas Keon, chancellor of Purdue University Northwest, is facing demands to resign after making allegedly racist remarks.

What did Keon say?

At the Dec. 10 commencement ceremony at Purdue University Northwest, keynote speaker James Dedelow, a radio host, spoke about a "made-up language" that he sometimes uses with his family.

When Chancellor Keon returned to the lectern after Dedelow's speech, he said, "Well all I can say is—" before spouting off Asian-sounding gibberish, clearly an ode to the subject matter that Dedelow's speech addressed. The audience laughed and Keon said, "That's sort of my Asian version of his [speech]."

PNW Commencement Ceremony, December 2022 - Morning Ceremony www.youtube.com

It did not take long for the incident to gain attention online.

University of Minnesota Professor Richard Lee accused Keon of making "a racist comment," while author Min Jin Lee condemned Keon for "racist anti-Asian linguistic mocking/mimicking" that she claimed is "injuring Asian and Asian American students." An online petition demanding Keon's resignation, meanwhile, has garnered more than 6,000 signatures.

Keon responded to the outage last Wednesday with contrition. He apologized for his remarks, which he described as "offensive and insensitive."

"I am truly sorry for my unplanned, off-the-cuff response to another speaker, as my words have caused confusion, pain, and anger," Keon said in a statement.

Is Keon resigning?

On Dec. 16, PNW's Faculty Senate Executive Committee unanimously voted to demand Keon resign. It condemned him, despite his apology, for behavior it said does not reflect the university's diversity values.

But Keon has not resigned.

Now, PNW's faculty senate plans to hold a no-confidence vote, WLS-TV reported.

Thomas Roach, chairman of the faculty senate, said he will continue pressuring Keon to resign because his apology is not enough. Nothing, in fact, is enough for Keon to retain his job.

"I'm going to continue putting pressure on the situation until he either voluntarily resigns or the Board of Trustees comes to their senses and forces him out," Roach said, WSL reported. "Any apology is meaningless as long as he's still in in place of the university, he needs to resign or needs to be removed."

The vote, however, is practically meaningless. If Keon refuses to resign, the only people with power to remove him are Purdue's board of trustees and its president.

Crook caught on video trying to snatch woman's purse in broad daylight. But victim's son, daughter spring into action, fight off crook, chase him away.



A 54-year-old woman was seen on surveillance walking up the steps to her Oakland home last week, KGO-TV reported, when a man was seen moving quickly down the sidewalk:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @DionLimTV

He then made a fast left turn and headed up the steps after the woman:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @DionLimTV

What happened next?

The man attempted to snatch the woman's purse and was seen in the clip pulling on it as he moved down the steps to the sidewalk, dragging the woman down the steps as well.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @DionLimTV

But the station said the victim's daughter Jamie had just driven her mother home. And in the clip, Jamie, 22 — who presumably already was on or near the steps when her mother began walking up to the house — is seen next to her mother on the way down, joining in the fight against the crook.

And within seconds the victim's son dashes down the steps and fights with the man as Jamie and her mother tumble backward and fall on the sidewalk and against a car.

The victim's son, 17, chases away the crook — who appears to leave the scene empty-handed.

After checking whether their mom is OK, Jamie and her brother are seen running after the would-be thief. KGO reported that the he jumped into a getaway car.

17 & 22-y/o siblings chase & save their mom f/getting robbed outside their home in Oakland. \n\u2800\nThe 54-y/o was coming home when a man started following her. The man follow her up the front stairs of her home & grabs her purse.\n\nThankfully her son is outside\u2026(1/3) #StopAsianHatepic.twitter.com/k1SaONdVwP
— Dion Lim (@Dion Lim) 1638676533
What is crazy to me, is that Jamie told me very matter of factly she & her family have been attacked twice before while living in other parts of Oakland. \n\nShe chalks it up to bad luck. \n\nPersonally I think it\u2019s more than just bad luck\u2026something bigger needs to be fixed. (3/3)
— Dion Lim (@Dion Lim) 1638676722

KGO reporter Dion Lim, who posted video of the incident, said the mother wasn't badly injured, suffering scrapes from the purse tussle.

Jamie — who gave the station her first name only — later told Lim that she and her brother weren't thinking about their own safety, just how to protect their mom: "Sometimes parents get nervous very easily, and they don't know what to do. As the younger generation we try to protect the elder generation."

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

Lim reported that Jamie called this incident "bad luck" since her family has been attacked and robbed twice before — and both incidents occurred in different parts of the city. Lim also noted in one of her Twitter posts concerning the incident, "Personally I think it’s more than just bad luck…something bigger needs to be fixed." She added a "StopAsianHate" hashtag as well.

KGO reported that there have been no arrests.

'Violent and disturbing': Teen girls brutally pummel Asian students on Philly SEPTA train; police say attack based on ethnicity



Disturbing video shows teen girls attacking Asian high school students on a SEPTA train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police say the brutal attack was "based on ethnicity."

Around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, students from Central High School were heading home after class on the Broad Street Line subway. A group of teen girls began verbally abusing some other boys, shouting obscenities. One of the girls punched one of the Asian boys.

A female student of Asian descent attempted to intervene, but then she became the target. The teen girls punched her, slammed her head against the side of the train, and threw her to the ground. The attackers relentlessly pummeled and stomped on her. One of the suspects took off her shoe and battered the victim repeatedly.

The victim was taken to a local hospital, where she was treated for a laceration.

A SEPTA spokesperson called the incident "violent and disturbing."

SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel said all of the victims in the "unprovoked" attack are Asian and all of the suspects are African American.

"This was an attack based on ethnicity and ethnic slurs were used by the attackers," Nestel said on Thursday afternoon.

"She was a hero," Nestel said of the female victim. "She stepped up and told the girls to stop saying what they were saying. She then became a target. Just truly heroic, courageous."

The mother of one of the freshmen high school students – who is of Chinese descent – said the attack was "discrimination." She told KYW-TV via a translator, "We are the city of love, we are not the city of hate, and [my] kid didn't do anything wrong, and [my] kid didn't even know the girls."

Police say the four female suspects in the attack are between the ages of 13 and 16. Nestel said the suspects are likely to face charges of ethnic intimidation, aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and terroristic threats. Nestel said he expects the girls who committed the crimes to be arrested soon.

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Terrifying video shows moment Good Samaritan is pistol-whipped trying to stop robbers from battering elderly Asian man



An alarming video shows a brazen robbery being committed in the middle of the day in Oakland. The terrifying video shows cowardly thugs targeted an elderly Asian man who needed the assistance of a cane to walk down the street. When a good Samaritan attempted to stop the robbers from beating the old man, he, too, was bludgeoned in broad daylight.

At approximately 3:15 pm on Thursday, two robbers attacked an elderly Asian man on 9th Street in Oakland's Chinatown. The thieves, one of which was armed, shoved the old man to the ground and robbed him at gunpoint. The armed man pistol-whipped the elderly man, according to a statement released by the Oakland Police Department. The elderly man can be heard bellowing in pain. The old man's cane can be seen on the ground in the video that was taken by a witness in a nearby building.

Another individual, who appears to be wearing a bicycle helmet, attempted to thwart the robbery, but he too is beaten to the ground. The gunman pistol-whipped the good Samaritan in the face with a handgun equipped with an extended magazine. The man fell to the sidewalk, and the blow appeared to be so devastating that part of the helmet flew apart.

The robbers fled from the crime scene in a getaway vehicle that was driven by a third suspect.

The Oakland Police Department described the attackers as "two individuals as black males in their 20's." Police did not have a description of the getaway driver.

Authorities said an investigation is ongoing, and asked the public to give any information related to the attack to investigators at (510) 238-3326.

Shocking video out of Oakland shows a black male pistol whipping someone who tried to intervene during an armed rob… https://t.co/rWXNtOVDpj

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) 1626477667.0


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This is the second horrifying robbery from the Oakland area that garnered national headlines this week. In nearby Emeryville, cell phone footage from a witness showed two women attacked in a California parking garage in broad daylight. The women were seen being robbed as they screamed for help. The attackers stole the belongings of the women and the rental car they were traveling in.

Oakland's City Council voted to reallocate $18 million of police funding to community violence prevention programs last month. Ironically, only days after the announcement that the Oakland Police Department would be defunded, a TV crew were robbed of their equipment while interviewing Oakland's violence prevention director on the steps of City Hall.

At a press conference on June 28, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said the murder rate in the California city is 90% higher than it was this time last year. Armstrong also noted that shootings at up more than 70% and carjackings have spiked by 87% this year, plus there have been 1,300 robberies recorded this year so far.

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VIDEO: Armed Asian store employees turn the tables on attacker in Dallas



Video footage shows Asian store employees being attacked by a belligerent woman in Dallas, Texas. However, the store clerks turned the tables on the assailant, and by the end of the video she is begging the store employees stop retaliating against her.

A woman barged her way into an employee-only area of a convenience store in Dallas. She pushed open a door separating the customer area from the area behind the counter. The woman proceeded to shove one of the Asian store employees into the shelf, then pointed at an older Asian man. She screamed, "Don't disrespect me!" She then marched toward the man, who attempted to keep his distance from her by stiff-arming her, but she steamrolled the man and pushed him into the wall while yelling, "F*** is wrong with you!"

The first man then brandished a handgun, to which a witness yelled, "Don't shoot her! Nah. Don't shoot her! Don't shoot her!" Then both men attempted to subdue the intruder. The gun-wielding man screamed, "Stop! Get out!"

The older man unleashed a fury of fast punches. The woman then pleaded for mercy, "Chill out, chill out, alright chill out, alright chill out!"

The two witnesses in the store are heard saying, "Aw man, they got a pistol fam, they got a pistol, he got a pistol, that's the only reason I ain't gone back there yet."

According to National File, the man who is recording the video threatened the Asian store employees, "I know, I'm gonna get him when he come out, he got that gun right there fam. Look, look, look."

As the two store clerks beat up the assailant, the cameraman yelled, "That's enough! That's enough! That's enough! Hey! Hey!"

A third store employee, who is elderly, came out of the back of the building armed with a flashlight.

The viral video, which has more than 1.1 million views on Twitter, ended with the woman being subdued. There is no indication if there were any arrests in the altercation.

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South Dallas last night https://t.co/Yua42mwi4J

— DallasTexasTV (@DallasTexasTV) 1624025966.0
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