Go to our  Twitter feed and Facebook page for more content. Among those who empathized most with Southeast Asian refugees was the gay black civil rights leader, Bayard Rustin. AsAmNews is a community of users interested in reading, learning and commenting on news, events, people & issues in the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander communities. Please consider interning, joining our staff or submitting a story. Tou Thao has been named as the Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer who interacts with upset bystanders and stands watch in a viral video as another officer, Derek … “George Floyd’s cries of ‘I can’t breathe’ parallel the words of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in 2014. But for many Asian-Americans like myself, there’s another lingering image from that fatal encounter—the face of the Asian officer who stood by and did nothing as Floyd was violently choked to death. Over the course of his police career, he racked up six civilian complaints, including one for severely beating a Black man. While Hmong women and young people, especially, have taken to social media to voice their solidarity and condemn Thao, many, especially Hmong men, have harassed those women, defended Thao, or stayed silent. Posted By Akemi Tamanaha. This conflict came to be known as the Secret War, “secret” because Laos had been designated a neutral territory, though that didn’t stop the U.S. from dropping 270 million cluster bombs over the country (some of which remain undetonated and "live" and kill people to this day). Many Hmong men also joined the military. 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Most refugees had no education and came with nothing but were eligible to receive some funding from the government for living expenses and low-income housing as well as programs for job training and English classes. In contrast to the “model minority myth” that pervades many conversations about Asian Americans, Southeast Asians tend to have the highest rates of poverty, domestic violence, high-school dropouts, and mental illness. As many Asian Americans are speaking out about this hate, we must also show up for the African American community,” Advancing Justice, AAJC said. Others include 13-year-olds Ba See Lor and Thai Yang, who were shot in the back with a shotgun by a suburban police officer in 1989; 29-year-old Jason Yang, who police say jumped off a freeway off-ramp to his death while fleeing officers in 2010; and 52-year-old Chiasher Vue, who was shot by police in his home in 2019. Hmong people were nomads who were also ethnic minorities in countries across Southeast Asia. Approximately 30 percent of Hmong Americans never finished high school. His horrific death was every bit preventable, and every bit enabled by a deeply rooted system of racial inequity, oppression, and discrimination here in the United States. Tou Thao is the Minneapolis Police Officer who watched as Gorge Floyd was Pinned to Death by his fellow Officer Derek Chauvin. Quyen Dinh, the executive director of a Southeast Asian American civil rights organization called SEARAC, released a statement on Wednesday condemning the death of George Floyd: Today, we stand with communities and families across the country to condemn the death of George Floyd who was killed in Minneapolis on Monday after a violent police encounter. The white supremacist structure inherent in the police is what clouds any expectation of solidarity between officers of color and the overcriminalized populations they come from. "They were the loudest voices for us," Fong's older sister, Shoua Lee told the BBC. Hmong refugees began to form cultural centers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and California, where they were often resettled in the heart of poor Black communities. It has continued to keep Southeast Asians in a cycle of poverty, that will long extend after this generation and the next.”. “Of course, back in their home countries they didn’t have gangs. Chauvin was their training officer, and Thao had almost a decade of experience under his belt. In 2017, 26-year-old Lamar Ferguson sued Thao and another officer for use of excessive force. Vaj also addressed the hate, stalking, and harassment she (and many other women) experienced last week from trolls and mainly Hmong men after speaking out forcefully against the police, including Thao, and anti-Blackness. "Tou Thao is a very Hmong name." For some Hmong men, it carried on a family legacy, which for many had developed into a deep patriotism for the United States. He is Hmong American, a Southeast Asian ethnic community largely present in the Midwest and California. Around 28 percent of the Hmong population in the United States lives in poverty, compared to 15 percent of all Americans. Like many Black Americans, Hmong youth were over-policed, stereotyped as gang members, and victimized by the institutional failures that fueled the school-to-prison pipeline.

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