No Hate Crime Justice: Vincent Chin and Luis Ramirez

Last week, two of the young white men who allegedly killed Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Penn. were acquitted by an all white jury. The case mirrors the first federal hate crime prosecution involving an Asian American–Vincent Chin–in the early 1980s. Carmina Ocampo has written an important essay linking the two sad events. Click here for the link to New American Media piece.

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