这是打人嫌犯辩护律师前天在公布详细录像的同时发表的声明，也应该是将来法庭上的辩论观点，从辩护律师的角度无可非议。
公布的案发细节与原来旧金山警方公布的情节基本一致，只是没有显示袭击越裔老者的情节，增加了嫌犯在攻击两位亚裔老者之前，嫌犯曾经遭到数个街头露宿者的殴打情节。因此辩护律师的辩护论点大致为：攻击亚裔老者的嫌犯在打人之前已经被打懵了，处于神志不清状态，没有仇恨犯罪动机。
真正要了解案情，应该从旧金山当地英文媒体、警方公布信息客观了解案情。。。最后是加州法官为案件定性。
中文自媒体是最不可靠的信息来源，如果自称在北美读书而且定居北美数十年的人还仅仅是依靠这里的中文自媒体获取信息。。。只能在这里祝TA老人家身体健康了。。。
辩护律师声明链接：
sfpublicdefender.org/n...n-jenkins/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 8, 2021
**PRESS STATEMENT**
Deputy Public Defender Eric McBurney’s Statement on Case Involving His Client Steven Jenkins
Includes Previously Unreleased Video Surveillance
“My name is Eric McBurney, the Deputy Public Defender representing Steven Jenkins, who was arrested on March 17, 2021, after witnesses saw him strike Xiao Zhen Xie at the corner of Market and 7th Streets in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins is also accused of hitting Ngoc Pham that same day.
These are two deeply troubling assaults of elderly Asian Americans in our community, at a time when Asian Americans locally and nationally are suffering from an escalation of violence and anti-Asian racism. As an immigrant from Taiwan myself, I understand why there has been so much concern about this case and I have great sympathy for Mr. Pham, Ms. Xiao, and their families.
However, this situation is much more complex than it may appear. Based on the facts that I have reviewed, I do not believe that Mr. Jenkins’s actions were racially motivated. On that day, Mr. Jenkins himself was the victim of an unprovoked attack by four unknown assailants who struck him over forty times immediately before he was seen striking Mr. Pham and Ms. Xiao. Due to the initial attack, Mr. Jenkins suffered multiple head injuries, and I believe that he was in a diminished mental state, and disoriented as a result, when he encountered Mr. Pham and Ms. Xiao just moments later.
Right now, I cannot answer every question, but I wanted to share what we know so far from the
video surveillance we are releasing today:
1) The morning of March 17, 2021, Mr. Jenkins suffered an unprovoked assault by multiple unknown parties at UN Plaza. Surveillance video showed him as the victim of a group attack in broad daylight while pedestrians went about their business near the Farmers’ Market. Following that initial assault by three people, another unidentified man followed Mr. Jenkins and struck him multiple times as he was walking away. In irregular bursts, the attack on Mr. Jenkins lasted over three minutes, during which time he was hit 45 times and sustained multiple blows to the head.
2) As he walked away from his own assailants, Mr. Jenkins’s face was bloodied, he was disoriented and possibly concussed.
3) When Mr. Jenkins encountered Ms. Xiao three minutes later, he was being pursued by his fourth assailant who had just hit him multiple times approximately twenty seconds before Mr. Jenkins stuck Ms. Xiao. Ms. Xiao was standing near a pole at the corner of Market and 7th Streets. She was wearing a hat and a mask. Mr. Jenkins hit her one time before a security guard ran over and tackled him to the ground.
Steven Jenkins is a thirty-nine-year-old homeless man with mental health issues. What happened that day was not the norm for him. He has no prior convictions for physically hurting anyone. He has struggled throughout his life on the street, largely ignored by society. Even when he is attacked and hit over 40 times in broad daylight in the busy UN plaza, not one person comes to his aid.
This situation is a tragedy on many fronts. There were three victims of assault that terrible morning: Ms. Xiao, Mr. Pham, and indeed Mr. Jenkins himself.”
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