Current Events > 87-Year-Old Crime Victim To Move Back to China After Multiple Attacks in SF

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An elder Chinese immigrant man decided to move back to China after experiencing multiple brutal assaults in San Francisco, including one high-profile incident that was caught on camera. Rongxin Liao, 87, will take a flight this Saturday back to Guangzhou, Guangdong on a one-way ticket, his son, Jing Liao, confirmed with The Standard. Rongxin Liao plans to spend the rest of his life there.
Its too dangerous here, Jing said in Cantonese. Public safety situation in San Francisco has become worse and worse.
Liao was the victim in a high-profile case in 2020, in which surveillance video footage showed an attacker violently jump-kicking Liao, who was in his walker, to the ground. Liao appeared in court multiple times, asking the judge to sentence the attacker to a harsher punishment. Liaos family later appeared in a recall campaign advertisement against then-District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
But thats not the only attack Liao has experienced on San Francisco streets.
According to his son, Liao was attacked again on Oct. 1 of last year on Market Street. A police report shows that an 86-year-old Asian male matching Liaos description was the victim of an unprovoked attack in which the suspect punched him. He was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Liao told Sing Tao Daily that he was going to Walgreens to get medication at the time, the attacker punched him multiple times and his blood was everywhere. He was also attacked seven years ago, when he was beaten unconscious in the Tenderloin.
I dont want to be a drag to my son here, Liao told Sing Tao Daily. I dont want him to worry about me all the time.

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