Murder of Vincent Chin
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 117 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5148-3614-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vincent Jen Chin (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Chen Guoren; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was a Chinese American beaten to death in June 1982, in the enclave of Highland Park, Michigan, United States in Greater Detroit. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The murder generated public outrage over the lenient sentencing the two men originally received in a plea bargain, as the attack, which included blows to the head from a baseball bat, possessed many attributes consistent with hate crimes. Many of the layoffs in Detroit's auto industry, including Nitz's in 1979, had been due to the increasing market share of Japanese automakers, leading to allegations that Chinese American Vincent Chin received racially charged comments before his death. The case became a rallying point for the Asian American community, and Ebens and Nitz were put on trial for violating...