A pregnant store owner in Oakland's Chinatown credits a community-donated safety tool for helping her after she was attacked outside her store.
Eva Liu and her husband own Yuda International Logistics, which specializes in shipping items to and from Asia.
While working at the store the afternoon of April 25, she was approached by a man, who is seen on surveillance video, approaching a stack of customer packages.Liu, who does not speak much English, can be heard yelling"sorry, sorry, sorry" in an effort to get the man to stop walking toward her. In an instant, Liu, who is seven months pregnant, fearlessly grabs the airhorn from her desk and runs after the man.
The sound scared the man away and also alerted a nearby volunteer security team -- the Blue Angels who flagged down Oakland police, and who arrived in less than two minutes. Thousands of air horns like the one Liu used were distributed throughout Oakland's Chinatown and beyond in February 2021. The distribution was made possible thanks in part to generous donations from community members, including a contractor who wanted an alternative to whistles and pepper spray, and the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce.
"We're thinking not just distribute them in just Chinatown, but we're hoping to distribute them, to other communities as well," Chan said."I was trying to protect my stomach so I turned, and it hit my ribs," she said"When it sounded, many neighbors in a few block radius could hear it and knew trouble was happening.""I'd like to see more police officers, especially officers that speak the language," Liu said.
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