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Over the last few weeks, these grainy security videos out of Oakland, California, have been getting a lot of attention.

They're silent, which somehow makes them more ominous.

They're sped up a little the way these kinds of videos can be.

We have some new video tonight of an elderly man who was pushed to the ground in Oakland's

Chinatown by a suspect.

They show sudden, brutal attacks on elderly Asian people in the city's Chinatown.

The perpetrators seem to come out of nowhere.

It's just the latest in a string of attacks against Asian Americans across the Bay Area.

I'm wondering how you keep track of all these attacks.

Like, do you have a Google Alert or?

No.

I think I would just kind of collapse in Hermmit if I had a Google alert for every time

an Asian American person was attacked. I think that would be too much for me.

Kim Tran lives in Oakland. She's Vietnamese. She's also a researcher and an anti-oppression consultant.

So she's been following what's been happening in her hometown pretty closely.

But she says it's not just her hometown.

If you look around, you'll find all kinds of stories.

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