09.04.07
Police Investigating Possible Hate Crime in Fisherman’s Lake Michigan Drowning
 Scale 4 Physical Attack: The majority group vandalize minority group things, they burn property and carry out violent attacks on individuals or groups. Physical harm is done to members of the minority group. Examples: lynchings of blacks, pogroms against Jews in Europe, tarring and feathering Mormons in the 1800s. |
CHICAGO — Police here are trying to determine if the weekend drowning of a Vietnamese man who was pushed into the water of a Lake Michigan harbor was a hate crime, saying the man was the third fisherman who appeared to be Asian to be targeted.
“Based on the pattern, there is a possibility that it could be a hate crime,” Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Tuesday of the drowning death of Du Doan, 62. “It’s a very strong possibility.”
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