SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — Owners within the South and the East Bay are saying the identical two girls tried to interrupt into their houses, probably due to their ethnicity.
The owners reached out to KRON4 after seeing our story from Friday when a San Jose couple says they misplaced out on $16,000 price of jewellery.
KRON4 reported the story on March 7. On that day, this household down the road says the very same girls ransacked their residence. At Roy Kamimura’s dad and mom‘ residence in El Cerrito, digicam captures two girls breaking into the aspect gate.
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Kamimura is simply glad his dad and mom weren’t residence on the time. He posted the break-in on Nextdoor. It received the eye of Kelly Wong in Berkeley who additionally says she noticed the very same girls breaking into her residence.
Wong ran exterior and snapped this photograph of the ladies and in addition shared it on Nextdoor. That’s when each Wong and Kamimura had been alerted concerning the KRON4 report on the San Jose housebreaking.
Wong additionally believes the suspects in query are all focusing on Asian households — saying Berkeley police informed her her Chinese language New 12 months’s ornament made them a goal.
“I took our sign down right away because I don’t want to be the victim of another hate crime. I’m so worried right now,” Wong mentioned. “I don’t even wear red because I’m scared people are going to see me and think China and attack me.”
For Kamimura, he says his dad and mom have a Japanese-style backyard which may have made them a goal. He says he desires this string of burglaries to lift consciousness.
