09.09.07
Asian-Americans protest drowning as a hate crime
 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 (AP) - Members of various Chicago Asian-American groups held a vigil yesterday at Montrose Harbor on the city’s lakefront for a Vietnamese immigrant who was pushed into Lake Michigan and drowned.
- Click here to read the full article on WQAD.com
- Read more about the vigil at Montrose Harbor in this article in the Chicago Tribune.
lynn said,
September 18, 2007 at 3:57 am
tell me about it… all these random hate crimes. there is no way the authorities can say that these atrocities weren’t spurred by racism, yet they still do. the perpetrators just saw their asian appearance and decided to hurt them. how is that not a hate crime?