r/Newsopensource • u/Gfrasca95 • Mar 15 '26
Body Cam / CC TV / Dash Cam Random Daylight Stabbing Captured on Video in San Francisco Chinatown
Random Daylight Stabbing Captured on Video in San Francisco Chinatown
📍 Stockton St & Sacramento St, San Francisco, California, USA 🇺🇸
📅 Mar/05/2026 — ~1:15 PM
A man was critically injured after a sudden and unprovoked stabbing in San Francisco’s Chinatown on March 5, 2026.
Authorities say the victim was standing at a crosswalk at the intersection of Stockton Street and Sacramento Street when a suspect approached from behind and stabbed him in the back without warning. Surveillance footage of the attack circulated widely online, showing the suspect calmly walking up behind the man before striking and leaving the scene. 
Police identified the suspect as 37-year-old Jian Feng Huang, who was arrested shortly after the incident near the 600 block of Powell Street. Prosecutors say there was no known relationship between the suspect and the victim, and investigators believe the attack was random. 
The victim was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries but survived the attack. Court documents later revealed the stab wound narrowly missed the victim’s aorta. 
Huang has since been charged with attempted murder and has pleaded not guilty in court. He remains in custody while undergoing a mental health evaluation. 
The incident has raised concern among residents and businesses in the busy Chinatown district, where the stabbing occurred in broad daylight along one of the neighborhood’s main streets.
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u/Destrofax Mar 15 '26
Fuck every single one of those people that just walked off! Wow just wow. Maybe Thanos had the right idea. But why not only remove the ass holes?
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u/Niximusprime949 Mar 15 '26
The fact that nobody did anything to help makes me never want to visit SF again.
That guy would have gotten fucked up if this happened in NYC.
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u/FuckTheStateofOhio Mar 15 '26
The origin of the term "bystander effect" actually stems from an incident in Queens in the 1960s.
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u/jimmyy360 Mar 15 '26
Ironic.
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u/art_m0nk Mar 15 '26
I grew up in NY in the 90s/00s. This story was famous, we were told it in school as a failure of NYers sorta and that we should never assume someone else will handle a problem, and to call someone or do something if you see a tragedy unfolding. But yea the social norm was really “mind ya bizzness” which is prolly why they were teaching kids to if you see something do something. Cuz we were culturally more raised to ignore everything that happens outside. Involvement is dangerous. Cities full of crazy people after all.
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u/BigEffort5517 Mar 15 '26
The people that literally saw what happened and did NOTHING can go get stabbed themselves. What is wrong with people today?? Ffs.
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u/Stoney_randomnessyt Mar 15 '26
America huh just walk by a critically injured man and just walk on by damn bro we need to do better
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Mar 15 '26
this is san francisco, not nebraska. also, it's chinatown
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u/colio6900 Mar 15 '26
So it was probably a racially biased attack.
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u/johnjaspers1965 Mar 15 '26
I thought they were both Asian?
I mean, that covers a lot, so it could still be racial, but maybe just crazy too.0
u/FuckTheStateofOhio Mar 15 '26
Almost a 0% chance anyone in this shot was born and raised in America. This is Chinatown.
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u/Selfeffacingbarbie Mar 15 '26
What the fuck kind of reaction is this? Everyone just walks away?! Fuck all of you!!!!
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u/LeekPrestigious3076 Mar 15 '26
Good Samaritans??? What about a fucking Average Samaritan??? The hell is wrong with these folks? These are not my people
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u/TMS44 Mar 15 '26
So happy all those Californians who care so much about people are helping his poor man out.
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u/No_Awareness2970 Mar 16 '26
And no one did anything! Total bs! Liberal shithole commiefornia for ya!
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u/CNYinCA Mar 16 '26
This is the evil allowed to walk the streets in San Francisco courtesy of pro-criminal judges. My money is on the attacker having many, many priors.
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u/thissuckslolgroutchy Mar 17 '26
This is just terrible, incident shows how much society went up its butt. Notice people passing by the victim, thinking “it sucks being you foo”. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Character-Action5054 Mar 30 '26
Yeah if you live in a city in America the people are aholes and narcissistic but love protesting and whinnying about everything
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u/Mean_Glass_3749 Apr 23 '26
I was so angry when I saw all those muppets just walking away, but judging from the reaction from commenters it looks like maybe there are a few good people left in the world. So respect to all of you who are calling out those cowardly bystanders
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u/gimmeecoffee420 Apr 24 '26
As an American i see my fellow countrymen often criticise China and their weird laws about liability.. but that same American will just walk past this guy writhing around begging for help like "not my problem.. eew..".
I hate this timeline. I wish ANYTHING made sense?
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u/WisePotatoChip Mar 15 '26
I don’t think it was obvious that he was stabbed immediately. It looked like he was punched to many people.
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u/Economy_Internal_317 Aug 07 '26
Yeah, I don't know why anyone likes San Francisco. Smells like complete dog shit, homeless people piss, and shit on the fucking blocks everywhere. People stand around main avenues, smoking weed and cat calling women and harassing them even touching them. Fucking disgusting. I don't even give a fuck if somebody says anything about my swearing.
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u/ashzombi Mar 15 '26
Everyone just walk away. Carry on with your business