Saturday, January 7, 2012

"Who Killed Vincent Chin" what is your opinions about it??

Vincent Jen Chin (Chinese man)1955 – June 23, 1982) was a Chinese American beaten to death in June 1982 in the United States, in the Detroit, Michigan enclave of Highland Park by Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens, with the help of his stepson, Michael Nitz. The murder generated public outrage over the lenient sentencing the two men originally received in a plea bargain, as many people believed the attack, which included blows to the head from a baseball bat, to be racially motivated. Many of the layoffs in Detroit's auto industry, including Nitz in 1979, had been due to the increasing market share of Japanese automakers, leading to the possibility that Chinese American Vincent Chin was hared and attacked in retaliation. The case became a rallying point for the Asian American community, and Ebens and Nitz were put on trial for violating Chin's civil rights. Because the subsequent Federal prosecution was a result of public pressure from a coalition of many Asian.

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