A Tense Lunar New Year for the Bay Area After Attacks on Asian-Americans The attacks have renewed fears over a wave of anti-Asian violence and harassment that was spurred earlier in the pandemic. Max Leung, second from right, handing out information on how to report a hate crime to a group of men playing cards in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Thursday.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times The videos are graphic and shocking. In January, a local television station showed footage of a young man sprinting toward, then violently shoving to the ground, a man identified as Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, who had been out for a morning walk in the Anza Vista neighborhood of San Francisco. He later died.