A man is facing felony assault and hate crime charges after he allegedly attacked an Asian American Army veteran in San Francisco earlier this month.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office recently elevated Victor Brown’s case to a felony, according to court records. Brown appeared in court Friday.
Ron Tuason told KPIX-5 that he was assaulted on March 13 on his way home from a grocery store.
He said he was waiting at a bus stop in the Ingleside District and wearing a veterans’ cap when Brown spotted the hat and started yelling racist insults.
"When he noticed me he got aggressive and charged across the street, ‘Go back where you came from, you caused this problem.' He was referring to COVID. And, ‘Do you want to get hurt? You’re not a veteran, I’m a veteran,'" Tuason told KPIX-5.
Tuason served as a combat engineer in Louisiana and Germany in the 1980s.
He said Brown hit him in the face several times before he was knocked into a fence and fell to the ground.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office has filed five hate crime cases this year compared to nine in all of 2020, officials told the San Francisco Chronicle.
This is just one of the many brutal attacks against Asian Americans in the Bay Area in recent months.
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