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Elderly San Francisco man Rongxin Liao to return to China after decades of living in US because it’s ‘too dangerous’

The family of an elderly man — who has been assaulted multiple times on the crime-riddled streets of San Francisco — has decided America is “too dangerous” for their loved one and is sending him back to his home country of China after decades of living in the States.

“It’s too dangerous here,” Jing Liao told the San Francisco Standard on Monday after he and his family booked his father, Rongxin Liao, 87, a one-way ticket back to his home city of Guangzhou, Guangdong.

“Public safety situation in San Francisco has become worse and worse,” Liao added, revealing his father had been brutally attacked multiple times while in San Francisco.

Rongxin Liao was the victim of one high-profile case in 2020 when security footage caught a deranged man jump-kicking him as he sat in his walker waiting for the bus on a street in the depreciating city.

The Chinese immigrant, who speaks little English, had appeared in court multiple times to ask the judge for a harsher sentence for his attacker.

Rongxin Liao was unprovokedly attacked in 2020 while he waited for the bus on a street in San Francisco. KGO

His attacker, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, was only jailed for seven months, then transferred to a mental health clinic, only to be later released for at-home treatment, the Standard reported.

Rongxin Liao suffered severe head injuries as a result of that attack.

The grandfather was attacked again on Oct. 1, 2023, while he was walking down Market Street in Downtown San Francisco, his son revealed.

A police report obtained by the outlet shows an 86-year-old Asian male matching Rongxin Liao’s description was sucker punched that day and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Liao’s attacker, Eric Ramos-Hernandez, received a light sentence for assaulting the elderly Chinese immigrant. KGO

Rongxin Liao himself also told the Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily on Monday that he was attacked in the city seven years ago while walking to church.

The 87-year-old said he had been beaten unconscious by an unknown attacker and woke up in the emergency room of St. Francis Memorial Hospital with a partly fractured hand that required eight stitches.

Despite being questioned by police multiple times, his attacker was never found, and the case was dropped.

“I don’t want to be a drag to my son here,” Rongxin Liao told Sing Tao Daily. “I don’t want him to worry about me all the time.”

Liao and his family decided it would be safer for him to return to China after he was assaulted multiple times over the past few years. KGO

The family decided to send their elder back so he could live out the remainder of his days in peace with Jing Liao’s brother back in China.

Liao had a farewell dinner with some of his elder friends in Chinatown on Sunday to say his goodbyes after 24 years of living in America.

Before he leaves America this Saturday, he will revisit the hospital to check on his eye injuries stemming from the last attack.

Many of the homeless population in San Francisco, California, are linked to various crimes, including drug-related activities and instances of theft. Michael Ho Wai Lee/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Assaults across San Francisco dropped by 4.9% in 2023, according to the latest crime statistics.

In 2022, however, assaults in the city had jumped a staggering 8.8% in comparison to 2021.

Following his 2020 assault, the video of the violent attack and members of Rongxin Liao’s family would appear in a recall campaign advertisement against then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

The ad, which ran in May 2022, claimed that since Boudin was elected as DA, hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen 567%.

Boudin was ousted from his role back in June 2022 after fed-up San Francisco voters chose to recall the soft-on-crime DA following surges in shameless shoplifting, car break-ins, and rampant, open-air drug dealing.



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Colorado Rockies mascot Dinger attacked by fan during game

It was the dingbat versus Dinger.

Denver police are on the hunt for a crazed baseball fan who tackled and injured the Colorado Rockies mascot during Monday’s home game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

The beer-guzzling suspect — who was not wearing attire affiliated with either team — leaped into Dinger while the mascot was performing above the Rockies dugout at Coors Field, video shows.


Denver police are on the hunt for a crazed baseball fan who tackled and injured the Colorado Rockies mascot during Monday’s home game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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The purple triceratops struggled against the fan, who was pushing the mascot toward the platform’s ledge, before falling on top of the assailant.
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The purple triceratops struggled against the fan, who was pushing the mascot toward the platform’s ledge, before falling on top of the assailant.

An employee grabbed the fan and escorted him away as Dinger struck a quick dance move, high-fived a fan and jogged off the dugout top.


The assailant was sipping a 24-ounce can of Modelo before he pounced on the mascot.
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The mascot was able to walk away after the attack but was apparently injured by the suspect.
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The assailant was sipping a 24-ounce can of Modelo before he pounced on the mascot, who was injured in the unprovoked attack, the Denver Police Department said.

Police are offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the assailant’s identity.



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Russia claims deadly attack, but Kyiv denies anyone killed

The Russian military claimed Sunday to have carried out deadly missile strikes on barracks used by Ukrainian troops in retaliation for the deaths of dozens of Russian soldiers in a rocket attack a week ago. Ukrainian officials denied there were any casualties.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles hit two temporary bases housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, killing 600 of them. Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the strikes were retaliation for Ukraine’s attack in Makiivka, in which at least 89 Russian soldiers died.

Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s forces in the east, told The Associated Press that Russian strikes on Kramatorsk damaged only civilian infrastructure, adding: “The armed forces of Ukraine weren’t affected.”

The Donetsk regional administration said seven Russian missiles hit Kramatorsk and two more hit Kostyantynivka, without causing any casualties. It said an educational institution, an industrial facility and garages were damaged in Kramatorsk, and an industrial zone was hit in Kostyantynivka.

Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko said two school buildings and eight apartment houses were hit overnight. Photos he posted showed no indication that it had been an attack on the scale claimed by the Russians or that anyone had been in the buildings when they were struck.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles hit two temporary bases housing 1,300 Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk.
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“The world saw again these days that Russia lies even when it draws attention to the situation at the front with its own statements,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“Russian shelling of Kherson with incendiary ammunition right after Christmas. The strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities of the Donbas — aimed right at civilian sites and right when Moscow was reporting the supposed ‘silence’ of its army.”

Russia had declared a 36-hour cease-fire timed to coincide with Orthodox Christmas celebrations on Saturday. Ukraine denounced the pause as a ploy.

Ukraine’s attack in Makiivka was one of the deadliest attacks on the Russian forces since the war began.
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Russia said the attack on Kramatorsk was in retaliation for the Ukrainian rockets that destroyed a facility in Makiivka, also in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian soldiers were gathered in the early hours of Jan. 1. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago.

Also on Sunday, the Ukrainian military claimed to have hit a residential hall of a medical university in Rubizhne, a town in the Russian-occupied eastern Luhansk region, killing 14 Russian soldiers housed there. The number of wounded was unknown, it said.

Elsewhere in the east, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said one person was killed in strikes on Bakhmut, and eight others were wounded. The battles for Bakhmut and the nearby town of Soledar remained among the bloodiest on the front, Zelensky said.

In the northeastern Kharkiv region, the town of Merefa was hit during the night, killing one person, and two other settlements in the region were shelled, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners Sunday, swapping 50 on each side, according to Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, and Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s office.

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Gunmen kidnap 32 people from southern Nigeria train station

Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria’s southern Edo state, the governor’s office said on Sunday.

The attack is the latest example of the growing insecurity that has spread to nearly every corner of Africa’s most populous country, posing a challenge to the government in advance of a February presidential election.

Police said in a statement that armed herdsmen had attacked Tom Ikimi station at 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) as passengers awaited a train to Warri, an oil hub in nearby Delta state. The station is some 111 km northeast of state capital Benin City and close to the border with Anambra state.

Some people at the station were shot in the attack, police said.

Edo state information commissioner Chris Osa Nehikhare said the kidnappers had taken 32 people, though one had already escaped.

“At the moment, security personnel made up of the military and the police as well as men of the vigilante network and hunters are intensifying search and rescue operations in a reasonable radius to rescue the kidnap victims,” he said. “We are confident that the other victims will be rescued in the coming hours.”

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) had closed the station until further notice and the federal transportation ministry called the kidnappings “utterly barbaric”.

The NRC last month reopened a rail service linking the capital Abuja with northern Kaduna state, months after gunmen blew up the tracks, kidnapped dozens of passengers and killed six people.

The last hostage taken in that March attack was not freed until October.

Insecurity is rampant across Nigeria, with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, banditry in the northwest, separatists in the southeast and farmer-herdsmen clashes in the central states.

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