Man faces hate-crime charges in SF attack (on interracial family)

[alp227]

Source: SF Chronicle

Hosea Matavao, 48, faces three counts of assault, one count of endangering a child and one count of battery, said Omid Talai, spokesman for the district attorney. Four of those five charges have hate crime allegations attached to them.

A husband and wife were walking with their 3-year-old and 21-month-old sons in a double baby stroller at Eighth and Market streets at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, when Matavao allegedly made a comment about the race of their sons. The husband is white and the wife is black.

Matavao then punched the woman and her husband, who tried to defend themselves and protect their children, Talai said. While they were attempting to get away, Matavao allegedly kicked the tarp on the stroller, hitting the 3-year-old's head.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/20/BAJM1LKGHU.DTL

[dkf]

1. Weird. How does this person go on in life with so many interracial couples around?

[Rozlee]

3. Scary, huh?

My marriage blended us into an Anglo-Hispanic, Anglo-Oriental family. We live in Boerne, Tx., 87% Republican by demographic with a large elderly teabagger population. We've gotten the rare unfriendly stare here and there, but nothing overt. Things might be a bit different in some parts of Northeast San Antonio where it's rumored some Hammerskins hang out.

[dkf]

4. Yeah it's normal nowadays to not stay within your race.

At least it is here. That is why our kids are so doggone cute!

[janedum]

2. Hosea Matavao?

And what was HIS ethnicity?
CONSPICUOUSLY missing from this report.

[dkf]

5. Sounds Polynesian.

[provis99]

6. Matavao is Samoan.

What a bizarre incident. Why does a Samoan care about the ethnicity of white and black kids?:shrug:

[Ex Lurker]

7. a lot of Polynesians are fundy Christian or Mormon

maybe that has something to do with it.

[alp227]

10. But thus guy was prolly excommunicated

due to his criminal record or nvr was rly christian at all just had negative bigoted influences

[shanti]

8. exactly

the samoans i know mix interracially. no big deal.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Could he just be a dick looking for a fight? And he thought the comments would get him one?

Usually for hate crimes, it is an oppressor attacking an oppressed. Do they oppress Black folks in Samoa? Or is the perp from the states?