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Shoot First, Hire Culturally Sensitive Police Officers Later

Neela Banerjee - September 14, 2005

Back in August, police officers fatally shot [1] two Korean men in Dublin, California while responding to an alleged domestic dispute. This shooting has galvanized the Asian American community -- once again -- and many believe that the use of deadly force was unnecessary [2]. This confused-police-officers-reaching-for-guns issue has happens over and over in Asian American and Latin communities. Recent cases include a 1997 shooting in Rohnert Park of Kuan Chung Kao [3] -- who was armed with a wooden stick, the 2003 shooting of Cau Tran [4] in San Jose -- who was armed with a vegetable peeler, and last year's shooting of Rudy Cardenas [5] in San Jose, who was unarmed. The Asian American community has been coming together to organize across ethnic lines around this issue. There will be a candlelight vigil [6] on Sept. 20th at the Dublin City Hall.


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[1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973552/ [2] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/19/BAdublin19.DTL&type=printable [3] http://www.pressdemo.com/polandpub/polandpub1.html [4] http://www.geocities.com/apilegaloutreach/Uploads/Cautran.htm [5] http://www.siliconvalleydebug.com/Story/0124/Video-Audio/rudyaudio.html [6] http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=e37347d3843af89b5f74748370ac30eb