Would you like to hear a story about generalized non-Black racism in modern-day USA?

From Wikipedia:
On the night of April 28, 1997, Kao was drinking at the Cotati Yacht Club in celebration of a new job. While at the bar, he was involved in two scuffles with at least one other bar patron. In the first, he corrected a patron by stating he was Chinese, not Japanese, to which the other patron responded by saying "You all look alike to me." The bartender, who was familiar with Kao, separated Kao from the other patron by seating them at opposite ends of the bar.

The same patron later approached Kao and whispered some inflammatory words, instigating a larger brawl. During that brawl, Kao was stabbed over the eye with a dart. Cotati police were called to restore order, and Kao was sent home in a taxicab following the intercession of the bartender, who said the bar fight was inconsistent with his regular behavior.

Upon arriving home, Kao did not enter his house but instead stayed outside, crying "Neighbors, please help me!" Postmortem tests later showed Kao's blood alcohol level was 0.23%, well over the legal limit of impairment in California. The disturbance woke other neighbors, who called 911 to report a drunken disturbance in their neighborhood at 2:11. According to witnesses, Kao retrieved a long wooden stick comparable to closet rod from a recreational motorhome vehicle parked in his driveway at around this time.

Four minutes later, the police arrived on the scene. Officer Lynch stopped his patrol vehicle close to Kao in what witness felt was an attempt to scare him, but Kao responded by hitting the patrol car with the stick with sufficient force to puncture the radiator.[citation needed] After backing the car away, Lynch remained in the car and waited for backup. Almost simultaneously, Officer Shields arrived, using a spotlight on Kao and exiting the vehicle, despite Lynch advising Shields to remain in the car. Shields would later testify that he left the car to find Ayling Wu.

Lynch and Shields were in uniform and arrived in marked patrol cars with their sirens on but an eyewitness later stated neither of them identified themselves as police officers. When the officers arrived, Kao's wife, Ayling Wu, was outside and trying to calm Kao down and grab the stick. Shields commanded Wu to step away from Kao, and once she had retreated, Shields shot Kao once. Shields would later testify that Kao charged him with the stick raised over his head in a striking posture, closing to within 3 feet (0.91 m). However, four separate eyewitnesses would contradict Shields's testimony, saying that Kao was never closer to Shields than 10 feet (3.0 m). Wu, a trained medical professional, was physically restrained from approaching Kao after he was shot. There are conflicting reports about whether the officers attempted to perform CPR on Kao after he was shot.

Kao's body remained in the driveway until noon, and his 5-year-old daughter witnessed part of the disturbance.

Shields later testified that he feared for his life, since Kao was waving the stick in what was termed a "threatening martial arts fashion." Kao never studied martial arts. A warrant, served the next day on Kao's house, had police comb through the house for evidence of martial arts training or paraphernalia. None was found.


Even past his death, the victim still had to prove they didn't know any martial arts. What if they had had a single fucking book on the subject? Also, on your property is technically the only place where you're allowed to be drunk. They should have let the wife handle the situation, and they sure as fuck didn't need to shoot him the minute she stepped away from him.

And the to rub the kid's face in it? FUCK YOU.