Article: American Youth Killing Asian Teens for Sport (called 'chink bashing')

Submitted by Edwin on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 01:26

Charles Bryant and Nayquan Miller, both 16 and of Queens, placed an order for Chinese food from the Ming Garden restaurant on Guy Brewer Boulevard in South Jamaica. Eighteen year-old Huang Chen who was working in his parent's restaurant so that his sister could attend Stony Brook University, responded to the order but when he arrived at the apartment he was greeted by an act of vicious racist brutality reminiscent of the antigay bias crime, which victimized Matthew Shepherd in Wyoming. This time instead of a fence-post in a snow-covered field, the victim ended up in a frozen murky pond. After first beating the defenseless boy with baseball bats, the two sadistic thugs pulled out knives and stabbed him to death as he was pleading for his life.

After placing a plastic bag over Huang Chen's head, they tossed him into a shopping cart and wheeled him into his own car for the short trip to Brookville Park where he was dumped in a pond like garbage. Hours later, when police finally arrived at the address left at the restaurant for the delivery of the food, they found Nayquan Miller wearing a bloody shirt trying to clean large amounts of blood splattered on the ceiling and walls, graphically demonstrating the horror of the last moments of Huang Chen's young life.

The fact that a Chinese restaurant was targeted was no accident. A recent article in the New York Post described a new inner-city sport known as "Chink Bashing" which involves racist, premeditated assaults and worse on Chinese delivery boys.

Related articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03delivery.html?fta=y
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/nyregion/09delivery.html?fta=y

David Liang (UPenn) replied

Submitted by Edwin on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 01:29.

David Liang (UPenn) replied to Alvin's poston 21 August 2007 at 15:21
Why the FUCK would people even contemplate doing this shit? Reading this just pisses me off. Someone just trying to make a living, and these little shits just don't care. If I were one of those delivery guys I would go buy a gun right now and spray the shit out of anyone who attempts that shit in the future.

Gary Khammahavong (Bishop Hendricken High School) replied to Alvin's poston 21 August 2007 at 15:23
this is utterly disgusting. in so many levels. scares me that there are still people like this in the world...

David WAn replied to David's poston 21 August 2007 at 15:24
yeah it's sick and disgusting. Those people should get the death penalty

Jamie Ho (Temple) wroteon 21 August 2007 at 15:31
I wonder what kind of sentance these shits are going to get. They don't even deserve the title of "people." How could this happen? It's just too disgusting. While I'm not particulary fond of the death penalty, I believe that this is the only thing those ignorant shits deserve. Not just the death penalty but a full on lynching.

David WAn replied to Jamie's poston 21 August 2007 at 15:39
I bet the media's negative reports of china is giving these people just the right fuel to spread their hate. Similar things happened to me and my friends back during the spy plane incident and asian beetle problems. A lot of times these people are just waiting for the right excuse to do something and then feel justified in their own sick world. I have watched many trials involving people like these, and most of time, they either are too scared, so they end up apologizing, or at other times, they lash out at the prosecutors with arguments that usually corresponds with what the media portrays of the respective minority victims.

Awhile ago someone prompted me into searching for more info on hate crimes.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov01/hatecrimes.html This site has some basic information

Evan Ou (UCSD) wroteon 21 August 2007 at 16:27
Where does all this hatred come from? Nowhere have I ever read anything about racial tensions between the Chinese American community and the African American community. I understand the scapegoating that goes on between blacks and Koreans has resulted in a mutual antipathy between the two groups, but why are so many urban youth so angry at working class Chinese Americans? Are they simply being lumped in with the Koreans? It seems like an irrational, one-sided attack on the Chinese American community.
Please tell me if I am too quick to pull the race card, but you cannot write these off as isolated incidents - not when they occur so frequently and so consistently. There is a dire need for discussion between community leaders.

Rachel Cunningham (Washington University in St. Louis) replied to Jonathan's poston 21 August 2007 at 16:40
anyways, wow, that's.....i can't even come up with an adequate word to describe it. it makes me sick. poor guy.

Darryl J Chow (UCSC) replied to Alvin's poston 21 August 2007 at 16:54
What is the source of this article? Did you get it online? If so do you mind linking it?

Anyways, this just pisses me off so much. I wouldn't be surprised if more "Cho Seung-Hui"-esque people appear if this crap keeps up. I knew quite a few people that applauded that man... At this point i find myself doing so more and more myself as well.

Edwin Hollins (E. Illinois) replied to Darryl's poston 21 August 2007 at 17:04
Applaud him for what??

Rachel Cunningham (Washington University in St. Louis) replied to Darryl's poston 21 August 2007 at 17:07
applaud him for....killing random people? many of whom he had never even met? that's sick too.

Darryl J Chow (UCSC) replied to Rachel's poston 21 August 2007 at 17:13
Well, actually yeah. I know some people that sure thought it was bad, but they also applauded him for... well... "breaking the mold" more or less. I don't really condone what he did, but just hearing shit like the stuff mentioned in this article just makes me not feel as bad about what that man did. That's just what i feel, i know it's wrong, but man that's just what i can't help thinking.

Anyways lets not take this thread into a tangent, we can discuss this in a more relevant place if any of ya wish. But that's just my 2 cents.

Luc Mehmel (Mass. Art) wroteon 21 August 2007 at 17:27
"...And in the Queens trial of William Capeheart, one of three men who robbed and beat a Chinese food delivery man to death in 2004, it turns out the murder was a gang initiation into the Bloods' "Gun Squad". Nayquan Miller, who accepted a plea for 20 years in prison in return for testifying against Capeheart, said Capeheart told Charles Bryant he would need to prove himself by killing the Chinese food delivery man, Huang Chen. Miller says he didn't think Bryant would go through with it, but ended up joining in when Bryant and Capeheart were "stomping" on Chen in the apartment building's hall. The three later killed Chen, and tried to cover up the crime by dumping his body and car into a lake. Bryant was convicted last year and is sentenced to 51 years and 4 months in prison, and Capeheart is facing the same sentence."

http://gothamist.com/2006/01/19/merciless_murde.php

Luc Mehmel (Mass. Art) replied to Jonathan's poston 21 August 2007 at 17:29
America was made by white people you ignorant jackass.

Edwin Hollins (E. Illinois) replied to Darryl's poston 21 August 2007 at 17:32
I think there's a difference between effectively breaking stereotypes and just being blatantly insane and coming off that way. Going from what students, teachers, and family said of him this guy had some serious mental health issues.

But like you said it's off-topic. It's pretty sad how minority/minority crimes and murders don't seem to get much attention. I hadn't heard anythng about this.

Rachel Cunningham (Washington University in St. Louis) replied to Darryl's poston 21 August 2007 at 17:48
nah, i don't really want to debate that here. there's a "cho seung hui" thread if you want, but...i've said most of what i feel like saying on the subject.

just keep in mind what kind of message you want to send to people. i agree with edwin - "there is a difference between effectively breaking stereotypes and just being blatantly insane."

Vince Su (UConn) wroteon 21 August 2007 at 19:03
This is horrifying and disgusting. Lock those bastards up for life. The sad thing is, they will probably receive a mild sentence.

Alan Lu (Rutgers) wroteon 21 August 2007 at 19:12
they would have never called up a pizza hut or whatever though. but as darryl said, it's all about stereotypes and how a race is viewed which is generally determined by the media's portrayal of how a particular race is. the stereotype that chinese people are weak and stuff probably was a driving force for this crime.

cho seung hui was definitely on the mentally ill side, and i see darryl's point and all, but asians still aren't viewed as murderers or commit any crimes at all. i don't think having the media portray asians as murderers in the future help too... cho only really contributed to continuing the quiet, asian anti-social stereotype, and that is no reason for applaud.