{"id":368136,"date":"2026-06-20T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:57:23","slug":"oakland-man-faces-hate-crime-charges-for-castro-district-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368136\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland man faces hate crime charges for Castro District attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON<\/a>) \u2014 San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced multiple hate crime charges, as well as assault and vandalism charges against an Oakland man for an incident that happened in the Castro District last month.<\/p>\n

On Thursday afternoon, Hans Haken pleaded not guilty to one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, one count of vandalism, one count of hit-and-run, and one count of reckless driving.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors also allege each of the felony assault counts was a hate crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn San Francisco, we have zero tolerance for any hate, hateful acts, certainly that cross the criminal line, and we will do everything that we can to protect our residents from these types of incidents,\u201d said Jenkins at a Thursday afternoon news conference.<\/p>\n

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\"Chartreuse<\/p>\n

Chartreuse by Roje is a gay-owned floral boutique in San Francisco\u2019s Castro District.<\/p>\n

It was on May 16, around 5:30 p.m., when prosecutors say Haken spray-painted a homophobic slur on the wall next to Chartreuse by Roje, a gay-owned floral boutique in San Francisco\u2019s Castro District.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a reminder that even though we\u2019re here in Castro, San Francisco, we live in this well-protected bubble that we have created very passionately and strongly, that that can still happen,\u201d said Jeffrey Dumlao, the owner of Chartreuse by Roje. \u201cIf anything, that is what\u2019s scary, that it happened here in broad daylight of all times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dumlao says his store had already closed by that time, but Justin Donnelly, who lives above the store, heard the spray-painting and came down to confront the man and tell him to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just became very agitated,\u201d Donnelly said.\u00a0 \u201cI tried to remain calm and just tell him, like, sir, you know, I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t, I\u2019m not involved in any of that. I\u2019m just, I live here, right, and this is, this is my home, and you know, this is vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donnelly says when he took a picture of Haken\u2019s license plate, Haken got in the car and tried to run him over.\u00a0Then, prosecutors say he got out of the car and punched Donnelly in the jaw while uttering homophobic slurs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely doing a lot better than I was. It\u2019s been, I don\u2019t know, a month or so,\u201d Donnelly said.<\/p>\n

He says the incident has shaken him, but he\u2019s been lifted up by the community\u2019s support and law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people have said, \u2018oh my god, I can\u2019t believe something like this could happen in San Francisco, of all places.\u2019 And the fact is that something like this can happen anywhere, but in San Francisco, we don\u2019t stand for it, and we deal with it, so, so that makes me feel good,\u201d Donnelly said.<\/p>\n

In announcing the charges, Jenkins pointed out the climate in this country has become more hostile to the LGBTQ community. She says that makes it even more important for elected officials to protect that community, just like they do every other community.<\/p>\n

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