Denver man arrested for racist taunts on Filipino siblings and Korean couple in SF Bay Area
A man sitting in a car, who was later identified as Jordan Douglas Krah, was caught on video insulting Filipino American siblings with racist taunts. SCREENGRAB/ABC7
Police in San Ramon, California arrested a man from Denver, Colorado who was caught on video harassing three Filipino American siblings with racist taunts on Christmas morning and two Korean Americans the previous evening.
Jordan Douglas Krah, 40, was arrested Dec. 26 for violating California’s anti-hate crime law. He was caught on video on video harassing siblings Abigail, Adriana and Anjo Halili on Christmas morning.
“We heard a guy parked in his car yelling from his window saying keep walking you need to get away from that store, ‘you’ve been the people vandalizing and robbing these shops,'” Abigai Halili told ABC7 News. Krah allegedly followed up with obscene hand gestures.
“We didn’t know what to do and he kept going on and on saying ‘you’re Filipino idiots. You probably sell cocaine. You’re dealers,'” says Halili.
The Halilis were not the only Asian Americans allegedly targeted by Krah.
On Christmas Eve, Arine Kim and her friend Elliot Ha were shooting a video for TikTok while eating at an In-And-Out Burger when a man later identified as Krah spewed racist and homophobic slurs at them.
Jordan Douglas Krah allegedly also targeted Arine Kim and her friend Elliot Ha with a homophobic and racist rant at a San Ramon In-N-Out Burger. TIKTOK
A man off camera can be heard saying, “You guys filming yourself eating? You’re weird homosexuals.” A little later, the man says, “You’re Kim Jong Un’s boyfriend?” And moments later says, “Normally I could spit in your face…that’s some Filipino s**t.”
When the victims’ videos went viral, the police said they were flooded with tips that helped them identify Krah, who has ties in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kim and the Halilis said they were thankful for the quick arrest of Krah, as it shows that the attacks on Asians are very real, but also punishable by law.
