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Vincent Chin

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Murdered in 1982 in Detroit, USA

United StatesLived 1955 to 1982 · aged 27
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Vincent Jen Chin was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz.

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People marching by Detroit's Renaissance Center in protest of the sentence of Chin's killers being too light, May 9, 1983People marching by Detroit's Renaissance Center in protest of the sentence of Chin's killers being too light, May 9, 1983Ebens entering the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, June 28, 1984Ebens entering the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, June 28, 1984Chin's mother, LilyChin's mother, Lily

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Vincent Jen Chin was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz. Ebens and Nitz assailed Chin following a brawl that took place at a strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, where Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party with friends in advance of his upcoming wedding. Against the backdrop of high anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States at the time - known as "Japan bashing" - Ebens and Nitz assumed Chin was Japanese, and a witness described them using anti-Asian racial slurs as they attacked him, ultimately beating Chin to death.

Country
United States
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1955 to 1982 · aged 27
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6 languages

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