Racist man arrested for attacking and sexually assaulting Filipino-American in San Jose Caltrain Station in California

A 32-year-old white man Johan Strydom has been formally charged with a hate crime following the alleged sexual assault of an Filipino-American

By Edward Era Barbacena

SAN JOSE, Calif.-  There has been an increasing number of incidence  anti-Asian crimes across the United States and most of these nonsensical attacks are unprovoked. One of the latest anti-Asian hate crime happened in a train station in San Jose CA, where an Asian woman from the Philippines was assailed by white man.

Johan Strydom, 32, held, charged w/assault w/
intent to commit rape, assault & hate crime for
grabbing woman by neck, pulling her to ground,
tossing her from aide to side by her hair at Diridon
station in San Jose, telling her “ - you Asians,” 

A 32-year-old white man Johan Strydom has been formally charged with a hate crime following the alleged sexual assault of an Filipino-American woman at a San Jose Caltrain station earlier this week. According to some who knew Strydom, he was a college dropout and often gets into troubles.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said the suspect, Johan Strydom, grabbed the woman by the neck at the Diridon train station, pulled her to the ground, and tossed her from side to side by her hair. 

During the incident, Strydom told the woman, "F- you Asians," the district attorney's office said, adding he intended to rape her. 

"Hate crimes are not someone else's problem," said District Attorney Jeff Rosen. "They're not happening in someone else's community, some distant period. These hate incidents and hate crimes are happening right here and right now."

In court Friday, Strydom became emotional and wept as a prosecutor outlined the hateful comments he allegedly made to the woman. She was on the phone with her boyfriend at the time of the attack. 

The victim named Tiffany, a 26-year-old medical worker from San Jose, detailed the alleged hate crime and assault that occurred Wednesday morning. 

Tiffany, who did not want to share her last name, said she is still shaken up over the unprovoked attack.

"I’ve never seen him in my life," said Tiffany. "I’ve never seen him at the station."

At 6:30 a.m., Tiffany was on her way to work in Palo Alto and poised to board a train. She said she was inside the tunnel when a man, later identified as Strydom, approached her from behind, grabbed her neck, pulled her hair, and started cursing.

"He was saying f-u, f-u Asian, this is completely bull," Tiffany recalled. "All while he was keeping me on the ground with his grip on my hair.

Screaming throughout the attack, bystanders yelled at him to let her go.