Attack on Councilman "Tied to His Ethnicity"

Millbrae City Councilman Anders Fung and his family were physically attacked over the weekend: [bold added]

Sutro Baths

A Millbrae City Council member enjoying a Saturday afternoon walk with his family near San Francisco’s Cliff House said he suffered a head gash and neck injury when assailants flung a concrete block down at him.

“We went out to Lands End for a little family hiking; it’s a beautiful place,” Anders Fung said in an interview Sunday evening. “Then this big concrete block landed on my head and I instantly fell to the ground.”

The attack occurred as Fung and his wife and two children were heading down a steep trail to the ruins of Sutro Baths at Lands End. The injuries included a two-inch gash on the top of his head.

"Two young men in hoodies" (Facebook)

At first the councilman thought it was an accident, but other smaller objects followed. His wife saw what Fung in a Facebook post described as two “young men in hoodies.”

“When my family confronted the perpetrators demanding them to stop, one of them gave my family an obscene hand gesture,” Fung wrote.

They then ran off. Fung said he had no doubt the assault was racially-motivated.

After the family recounted details of the assault to U.S. Park Police Fung was taken by San Francisco fire fighters to the emergency room of California Pacific Medical Center. In addition the head injury, which doctors closed with a half-dozen metal stitches, Fung wrote that his injuries included “a cervical disc herniation around my neck.”

The Chronicle didn't print the above photo which was posted to Anders Fung's Facebook page, nor did it publish additional details of the suspects' appearance or speech patterns, which could easily be obtained from interviewing the Fung family.

Maybe the reasons are innocuous, or maybe the suspects don't fit the narrative of those who commit hate crimes.