SAN FRANCISCO (GNB): A 75-year-old Asian grandmother who has received nearly $1 million in donations.
Xiao Zhen Xie, grandmother who was punched by a white man in San Francisco and then fought back by smacking him with a board and to give the money away to the Asian American community, her grandson said.
Photos of Xiao Zhen Xie’s bruised and swollen face have been shared on news broadcasts, social media and websites since the March 18 assault.
Steven Jenkins, a 39-year-old white man, was arrested in connection with the incident, which occurred just days after the Atlanta-area spa shootings that left six women of Asian descent and two other victims dead.
“She insists on making this decision saying this issue is bigger than Her,” John Chen wrote in an update on the fundraising site GoFundMe.
“She said we must not (submit) to racism and we must fight to the death if necessary,” John Chen, her grandson, wrote in an update on the GoFundMe fundraising platform.
She “stated multiple times to donate all the funds generated in this GoFundMe back to the Asian American community to combat racism,” he wrote. “She insists on making this decision saying this issue is bigger than Her.”
Xie was attacked on San Francisco’s Market Street last Wednesday, the morning after six women of Asian descent were killed in a shooting rampage in the Atlanta area.
Xie, who is originally from China, had been waiting to cross the street when she was suddenly hit in the face. San Francisco Police say the suspect, Steven Jenkins, punched Xie minutes after he assaulted an 83-year-old Asian man. The suspect was being chased by a security guard when he hit Xie.
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