Additional reporting by George Kelly
The horrific stabbing video spread like wildfire on social media, rekindling memories of random violent attacks against Asian Americans.
The surveillance footage captured on the afternoon of March 5 shows a figure in a black hoodie ambling down the sidewalk near the corner of Stockton and Sacramento Streets in Chinatown. Suddenly and seemingly without cause or warning, the person lunges at a man in a dark blue T-shirt waiting to cross the street and stabs him in the lower back…