Aug. 19, 2022 on The Story: In early July, a man allegedly attacked a family of Japanese descent on Portland's Eastbank Esplanade, shouting racial slurs and hitting a father and his 5-year-old daughter in the head. The suspect, Dylan Kesterson, was arrested and booked into jail almost immediately. But his release from jail, too, was almost immediate — thanks to Oregon's current bail policies. Now Asian American community leaders, prosecutors and crime victims are pushing to have those policies changed so that suspects accused of serious bias crimes are held in jail, at least until they go before a judge. In Kesterson's case, there's a particularly good reason; according to court documents, he had a pattern of these kinds of attacks. Watch more The Story videos: http://bit.ly/watchTheStory Follow The Story on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thestorykgw