ASIAN 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Asian American Political Alliance, Asian Pacific American, 1992 Los Angeles Riots
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Statistics - national asian pacific american legal consortium. After 2001, police focused on terrorism so there is a decrease in hate crimes after. Police beat an african american, dash cam caught it but the police were free. Police starting vandalizing the korean mom and pop shops. Got beat up and killed because people thought he was japanese and blamed the japanese for losing their jobs. Mistaken as vietnamese and was hit on the back of the head. One got sentenced to 6 months, the other got sentenced to 37 years but was eligible for parol after serving 4 years. Sentence was less then the minimum sentence (6-7 1/2), and got sentenced to 4 years. To restrict asian americans to enter elite colleges. 1984 - berkley disclosed that they"re going to change the policies for admission. No exemption for asian american educational opportunity program students. For low-income students, had exemptions so that you could save money.
