Daniel Dae Kim, Gemma Chan condemn attack on 91-year-old man

Actors Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu are offering a reward of $ 25,000 for information that led to the arrest and conviction of a person who violently attacked a 91-year-old man in Oakland Chinatown.

Last week, Wu and Kim asked for advice regarding the person who was filmed on January 31 pushing the old man to the ground. According to ABC7, police said the suspect in the incident also attacked a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman on the same day.

On Monday afternoon, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong announced that Yahya Muslim, 28, had been arrested in connection with the attacks. According to CBS News, authorities have charged Muslim with assault, bodily harm, elder abuse and a special allegation of offenses.

“The number of hate crimes against Asian Americans continues to skyrocket, despite our repeated pleas for help,” Kim wrote on Instagram Friday. “Crimes are too often ignored and even excused. … #Enough is enough. …

“We must do more to help the thousands of Americans who have suffered at the hands of this absolutely senseless violence. Please help us bring this criminal to justice.

The “Lost” and “Hawaii Five-0” star also called on her followers to “remember #VichaRatanapakdee” and “remember #VincentChin”.

Ratanapakdee died last month at age 84 after being similarly assaulted on his morning walk in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. And Chin, who was beaten to death in 1982, later became the subject of the 1987 Oscar-nominated documentary, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” Which examined anti-Asian racism in America.

“I wasn’t going to post them, but after seeing the comment from some of you who had no idea what was going on, I think it’s important for people to see this…”, a Wu wrote on Friday in his own post. “Vicha Ratanapakdee was minding his own business when he was brutally attacked and killed. … it was an act of hate. If you see something like this or that happen to you, report it! Call 911 immediately. “

“Crazy Rich Asians” and Marvel actress Gemma Chan also shared a video of the attack on Chinatown last month in an effort to raise awareness of hate crimes against Asian Americans, which exploded in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s hard to watch, but it’s a cry for help,” Chan wrote on Instagram on Sunday. “The community suffers from these completely unprovoked attacks, but the crimes are too often overlooked and underreported. Imagine if it was your father or your grandfather?

Chan demanded that the attacks be recognized as hate crimes. “The violence will only end when the silence ends,” she wrote.

Other Hollywood figures who spoke out against the attacks included Henry Golding and Harry Shum Jr., Chan’s ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ teammates, as well as director Greg Pak, ‘Youth & Consequences’ actress Anna Akana, the “Agents of SHIELD” star Chloe Bennet and “Shang-Chi star and legend of the ten rings, Simu Liu.”

“I hope these people understand that you won’t come away with racially motivated unprovoked attacks on the Asian community,” Golding tweeted. “Justice will be served.”

“It is becoming more and more clear to me that the attacks on our elderly are not isolated incidents,” Liu written on twitter. “It’s hard to express my anger in a way that is acceptable to the public, so I’m just going to ask everyone to protect their loved ones and look out for our seniors.