this now. for many of us, everyday life has come with an additional worry. whether it's going to the grocery store, picking up your children from school, riding a bus going for a morning walk. in these moments, too many of us right now are asking ourselves, could i be next? and the stakes are too high to sit back as mentioned by the mayor, we're only blocks away from where an 89-year-old grandmother was senselessly assaulted and left to die. and, hate and prejudice cannot and will not be tolerated, plain and simple. as your attorney general with the full weight of the law and the california constitution behind me, let me say this, there is no place for hate in california or anywhere, any time period. full stop, end of story. and, across our different

cultures and identities, today, we came together to affirm this fundamental truth. across our differences, we are united in making sure that our neighborhoods and our cities are safe and healthy and prosperous for all. nothing is most important. let me close by saying this. my parents are social justice champions. i grew up as a young child. i had the blessing and the privilege of growing up in la paz. from a young age, i've worked with my parents. while they worked alongside iconic leaders and phillip veracruz that when you see injustice, you need to fight to correct it and injustice against one is injustice against all. today, we reaffirm the us, not

the me that we're all in this together and that we will rise together or not at all and as i take on injustice in many forms, as the people's attorney, we are very laser focused on taking on hate incidents and hate crimes as the people's attorney, i thank you. next, we'll be hearing from sarah wong, the executive director of the community youth center. >> thank you, mayor breed. and thank you for all the brothers and sisters behind me. today's round tame is truly inspiring, but it's also emotional to me. i think especially the asian communities are going through a lot of pain.

even it runt one community doesn't feel safe or community doesn't feel safe and today when we have our own discussion, we talk about sharing a lot of similarities across different communities that we're dealing with anti-immigrant hate, anti-muslim hate. anti-lgbt hate, all kind of hates that we see right now is a crisis. at the same time, because of this round table that we're here across the board, but also how we're going to coordinate together to really move forward to combat this kind of hate and violence. for everyone i really feel hopeful. we did talk about the challenge that we're facing including

underreporting, language barriers. victim services. the lack of cultural competency services across the board. but we also talk about how important it is to really have violence prevention strategies. how will one make sure that we don't only respond when there is a crisis. so, that we don't always have to rely on gofundme and things like that when something happens, when tragedy happens. so i really feel very hopeful and i'm really looking forward to work together from the state and also the city level to ensure the safety of all communities. thank you. >> i'm a member of the st.

gregory arminian church of san francisco. after this meeting, we feel more secure knowing that the attorney general, the mayor, the chief of police, they've made it crystal clear that hate will not be tolerated at all on any level and that there are consequences to it. division is a source of -- it's a disease and it spreads through society and it's, we cannot have a civil functions society with hate and there will be consequences and 0 tolerance and san francisco's at the forefront of it and we need to set an example not just in our city, but in had our state and for the entire country that hate be not be tolerated at all. thank you. >> thank you. happy to answer any questions if you have any.

>> so in 2021, we've had 83 reported hate crimes. let me say this, that does not tell the whole story and 59% of those were against asian, people from the aapi community. and let me just point out one thing of those 59% which is 49 hate crimes, 30 of those was committed by one person who is now in custody and has been filed on by our district attorney. as was said repeatedly by all the speakers, we will not tolerate it. there's no place in our city and there's no place for it in our state and we want to hold those accountable. >> can you talk more specifically about the arrests for hate crimes and that you understand the percentage of

being prosecuted. >> like i said, 30 of the 83 is one person and so those 30 are cleared and we have solved other crimes. we have not solved others. we're still working on that case and we need the public's help on these things. these are very difficult situations because in addition to the reported hate crimes that meet the statutory evidence of what constitutes a hate crime, we know the incidents are happening day in and day out and i want to take this as an opportunity to encourage everybody to report these types of incidents. report crime. there are no areas to report in crime. so we solve many of them. we don't solve all of them, but we need to work with our

community members and the people standing behind me to support this effort to make sure we don't have those events in our city and if we do, people are held accountable swiftly with all the might of the world behind it. thank you. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> yeah. we did put out a press release. i do have that information. so we can get it to you. >> reporter: and then for an individual like that, [inaudible] ? >> like everybody else, he has the right to it a fair trial. he's in jail right now. so that's important as well. we'll see what the outcome in, but he is in jail right now. okay. thank you. >> one last question. >> reporter: [inaudible] so i wanted to ask people usually meant a hate crime is usually closely in line from the [inaudible] but the hate

[inaudible] what kind of behavior? >> thank you for your question, the question is about hate crimes versus hate incidents and what qualifies as a hate crime for something that might still be a hate incident which does not necessarily qualify as a hate crime. there are specific definitions under the law and the facts must meet the threshold of that law to qualify as a hate crime. i encourage us to use that hate crime statute. that's a tool that we have to do what chief scott and some of our speakers were talking about earlier to make sure that people know that there is no room for hate, not here, not anywhere not know, not ever and so that's what they're there for. as far as hate incidents, i

know there's debate, dialog, and discussion right now about maybe potentially changing some of those definitions, but might still be a hate based incident. and as tools, if they come online, they should be utilized as well. it's encumbent on all of us. and there's multiple dimensions to this. we need to make sure we're focusing on prevention as well from occurring in the first place and there's been some great work being done right here in san francisco, having some of our seniors who might be vulnerable so that a hate crime can be supported as well.

so critical and so important and even if they're a victim of a hate incident, they're support so i think that's an ongoing debate about what we can do to address nonhate crimes, but it's encumbent upon us to use every tool in the tool box and that hate is unacceptable. period. end of story. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> yes, they did. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> no it does not.

>> reporter: [inaudible] >> yeah. i'm happy to respond to that. san francisco is a major city, it's a city that has challenges of a major city and what we have tried to do is to put policies in place to combat those challenges. that when they see the amazing golden gate bridge and they see this beautiful home and this library you feel good when you walk through the door. there's a lot of beauty, but within that beauty, there's a lot of diversity and here in san francisco, what we do is we talk about that diversity as a strength of our city. how amazing it is that you could be in visitation valley

and then you can just go right over the hill and be in the bayview hunter's point. you can go to chinatown. you can go to little italy. all these different neighborhoods and have a completely different experience. so i think that san francisco we should be celebrating and highlighting the beauty, the uniqueness although as one of the densest cities in the country but most importantly, that should not take away from the beauty of this city and how amazing it is. thank you all so much for joining us.

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