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Reverse Racebending

I heard about Quentin Lee’s Today Has Been Weird from AngryAsianMan. It’s a short film, and it’s good: see the entire short movie above. It is based on a real life incident where a young 19 year Asian American boy named Simon Sek Man Ng blogged about his sister’s ex-boyfriend knocking on his door. The boyfriend ended up killing both Simon and his sister. The police used to information from his blog to find his killer.

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Fear, Checks, Balances, and Culture

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I was going to post this.  And then I wasn’t going to post this.  And then I decided to post this.  So here it is, two articles: Exchange student slain after frantic friend watches webcam attack and Was York U student stalked before her death?  It’s a sad story.  23 year old exchange student Qian Liu was talking on the webcam with her boyfriend in China, and in the middle of their conversation, a white guy knocks on her door, struggles with her, and turns off her laptop.  The guy in China notifies authorities, but by the time the landlord gets there, she’s dead, naked from the waist down with her pyjamas pulled over her chest.  There is evidence that she was being stalked, but we don’t yet know if the stalker and the murderer are the same guy.

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Ricardo Serrano to Die by Lethal Injection

Jimmy and Steve Dang, Rest in Peace

Jimmy and Steve Dang, Rest in Peace

(Pic from here.)

The death penalty.  Europe, as far as I know, doesn’t have it.  China does it with minimal trial.  Texas is the death penalty capital of the country.  And here in Oregon, we have it but rarely use it.

Today an Oregon jury sentenced Ricardo Serrano to die by lethal injection.  Serrano allegedly murdered an unarmed woman and her two children in their own home.  It was among the most heinous crimes I’ve ever heard of, and it hits close to home–very close to home.  Melody Dang’s house is around a ten minute jog from my workplace.  After the murder, her house fall into disrepair.  It looks better now–someone has fixed it up–but I think of the screaming, bleeding mother and children whenever I see it.

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The Annie Le Case

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This one is all over the news.  It looks like they’ve finally taken someone into custody for the Annie Le case.  The AP report says:

Police and FBI agents staged a dramatic raid on the home of a Yale University animal research technician on Tuesday, seeking evidence that might tie him to the slaying of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a campus research building.

No charges were filed against 24-year-old Raymond Clark III in Middletown, but police took him into custody while searching for DNA and other physical evidence. Police said Clark would be released after they obtain evidence they need from him and his Middletown apartment.

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Rice Chaser Rapist Kills Himself

Just saw this on AAM.  I remember last year when they were looking for this guy.  He would sneak into garages, take money from Asian women, and then sexually assault them.  He even attacked a woman who had her 18 month old child with her.  During his last attempt, he tried to sexually assault the woman in the interview above, who happens to be a marathon runner.  (This woman is white.)  She “freaked out,” fought him off, chased him down, and cops arrested him.  Props to her.  The rice chaser coward then hanged himself in his prison cell.

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Dateline on Emery Kauanui

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For those who missed it, there was an excellent feature on Dateline last night about the death of surfer Emery Kauanui.  If you remember, I blogged about this late last year, and Tokyolovestory from the 44s blogged about her high school friend Hank, one of the boys who was tried as an accessory.

Check out the feature if you have time.  It’s a really sad story, totally senseless.  This was one of those cases where the defense had, well, no defense.  It’s hard to argue for a 220 lb. guy who drove to his 145 lb. victim’s house, killed his victim, and then claimed self-defense, despite the facts that it was a 5 on 1 fight and he outweighed the victim by 75 lbs.  The drama between the prosecutor and the defense attorney was interesting as well.

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