Portland man behind series of anti-Asian attacks charged with third bias incident for assault and robbery
Dylan Kesterson, 34, is facing a total of 23 charges after KGW8 learned on Tuesday that he was involved in a bias incident on April 9. Court documents reportedly revealed that he robbed, threatened and physically injured a person in what authorities described as a racially motivated attack. Kesterson was charged with first-degree bias crime, second-degree theft, third-degree robbery and fourth-degree assault for that incident.
Last month, Kaito Nakajima, a 21-year-old Japanese man studying English in Portland, Oregon, came forward to the media and said that he was also attacked by Kesterson near a Safeway branch at Southwest 10th Avenue and Jefferson Street on June 25.![](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/m3C4IOxjC7F0bPMPoe_ItA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G0E..6oo.YGLNWOcZ5pb5A--~B/aD0xMDYwO3c9MTk5NDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/a7525f98024492e7e49559e2e25a77a5)
Why is that a bias crime and not a hate crime? He's targeting Asian... Oh, I forgot, Asian are consider 'white' in Portland, OR.