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Cyber cafe violence affects SoCal Vietnamese American community
By John Scott Lewinski
Special to AsianWeek
In many ways, the Orange County, Calif., community of Garden Grove is a shining example of the so-called “American Dream.” In the 1960s and 1970s, a large influx of Vietnamese and Korean immigrants left their war-torn countries, took land once dominated by fruit trees and worked to build a flourishing community in the shadow of Disneyland’s Matterhorn.
That’s why the Dec. 30, 2001, murder of a Vietnamese American youth shook all of Southern California. In what police reports described as gang-related violence, a 20-year-old male was killed with a screwdriver in the parking lot of Garden Grove’s PC Cafe. Just one month before the murder, three Asian Pacific American youths were beaten by eight high school students armed with baseball bats at the same cafe...
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