Man who faces 95 years in jail for hate crime robberies targeted Asian women daily, held prejudiced belief that they don't have bank accounts: Court documents



San Jose police recently made six arrests for related hate crime robberies and attacks against Asian American women — but what the primary suspect admitted stunned prosecutors, KGO-TV reported.

What are the details?

Anthony Robinson — who faces up to 95 years in jail — targeted multiple Asian women daily, the station said, and court documents show he deliberately targeted Asian victims based on his prejudiced assumption that they don't believe in bank accounts.

I was told by the SCC DA\u2019s office Anthony Robinson targeted multiple Asian women DAILY. \n\nHe\u2019s wake up, find someone to help target Asians b/c he believed \u201cthey did not believe in bank accounts\u2026.& they were easy victims.\u201d #StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate \n\nhttps://abc7ne.ws/30y46bY\u00a0pic.twitter.com/CX1eD4xLn4
— Dion Lim (@Dion Lim) 1639710336

"The callousness of these crimes we could not get past ... you can dehumanize the population literally by treating them as storefronts instead of people," Supervising Deputy District Attorney of Santa Clara County Marisa McKeown told KGO.

Authorities said Robinson, 24, and the other five suspects worked together on more than 70 incidents of robbery, theft, and burglary from October 2020 to September 2021, the San Jose Mercury News said.

The Mercury News reported that, along with Robinson who hails from Stockton, the police released the names of the other suspects: 27-year-old Cameron Alonzo Moody of East Palo Alto, 23-year-old Derje Damond Blanks of San Jose, 24-year-old Hassani Burleson Ramsey of Oakland, 21-year-old Clarence Jackson of East Palo Alto, and 21-year-old Malik Short of Tracy.

All six men were also charged with hate crime enhancements by the county D.A.'s office, the paper added.

McKeown also explained to KGO why three of the men — Short, Ramsey, and Blanks — were released from custody: "Not every member of this criminal group had an equal role. So Anthony Robinson quite clearly was engaged in a voluminous number of incidents, but some other individuals who were involved may have participated in only one or a few incidents, and therefore they stand in very different shoes in terms of the charging decision."

Anything else?

The station said that additional charges for all six men will soon be announced, and McKeown said the investigation is far from complete, noting dozens more unsolved incidents.

VIDEO: Attacker uses cement block to brutally beat two Asian women — and male bystander just feet away simply walks off



A pair of Korean woman were brutally beaten by an attacker who used a cement block to repeatedly strike them as they were trying to close their Baltimore store overnight Monday, WJZ-TV reported.

And the attack was caught on surveillance video.

What are the details?

John Yun — whose mother and aunt were the victims — told the station the attack was random and that they never saw their assailant before.

Surveillance video shows Yun's aunt walking to the front of Wonderland Liquor Store to close for the night, WJZ said, when a man on the sidewalk comes at her with a cement block and pulls her through the door back into the store.

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A male bystander who appeared to have just made a purchase watches the attacker and victim hit the floor — but makes sure to stay clear of the struggle as he casually walks out of the store.

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The attacker then begins hitting Yun's aunt in the head with the cement block while pinning her to the floor.

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Yun's mother then steps in to help, and the attacker hits her in the head with the cement block also, WJZ said.

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The victims manages to the push the attacker just outside the open door, but after Yun's aunt pulls off the attacker's mask, he repeatedly hits her in the face with the cement block.

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Both women continue to fight back, however, and soon Yun's mother wrestles away the cement block from the attacker and appears to threaten him with it:

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It appeared the fight continued on the sidewalk, but after a pedestrian stepped in to assist, the victims were able to get back inside their store.

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Yun later told WJZ he was "so proud" of his mother and aunt for showing "courage" in the face of such a scary attack.

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What happened next?

Shortly after the attack, Baltimore police arrested 50-year-old Daryl Doyles and charged him with two counts of aggravated assault, the station said.

Baltimore police say they have arrested the man in connection to the violent attack on the two Korean women.50-ye… https://t.co/DuufVNXn4P

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Yun told WJZ his aunt and mother were taken to a hospital with severe injuries but are now at home recovering.

"They're in shock," he noted to the station. "My aunt got the worst of it: 30 stitches, bruising … it's so disheartening."

Yun added to WJZ that he's "feeling raged, of course" over the attack.

Image source: WJZ-TV video screenshot

"It doesn't make sense why they would come here to make a living and be treated like this in a community that should ... embrace [them] because we've been here for over 20-something years," he added to the station. "We are a part of the community."

While Yun said he wants "justice" for his mother and aunt, he told WJZ he also wants the hate to end.

"Everyone is treated equally; there's not one person higher than another," Yun told the station. "So please, just stop all this hate, it needs to stop."

A GoFundMe page created to assist in the recovery of his mother and aunt has raised over $72,000 as of Thursday morning, well surpassing its $25,000 goal.