4 disadvantaged Black young men prevented from getting reparations by the machete-wielding son of an elderly Asian couple

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Dramatic surveillance video from Oakland shows the moment four people approach a pair of Asian seniors, rob them and are chased away thanks to the couple's machete-wielding son.

The couple's son told Dion Lim, anchor for ABC7's sister station ABC7 News in San Francisco, that the group of men approached his parents on their front porch after they had come home from grocery shopping Monday, March 29 at around 4:30 p.m. He did not want to be identified or share publicly the neighborhood where this incident happened.

The video shows the robbers grabbing the gold chain off his mother's neck and also reaching into his father's pockets to take a cell phone and keys.

A frightening scene caught on camera as an elderly Asian couple is attacked and robbed returning home from grocery shopping. Then a hero emerges, their own son - wielding a machete. Eyewitness News with the search for the suspects. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 https://t.co/S5ZYTFHkim pic.twitter.com/URQzbhhreP
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 3, 2021

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4 disadvantaged Black young men prevented from getting reparations by the machete-wielding son of an elderly Asian couple

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