A group of Vietnamese American students at the University of Pennsylvania say they are the victims of a hate crime after being the target of death threats and racial slurs in an altercation with another group of students.
Alleged hate crime during Fling prompts students to launch police investigation
According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, members of the Vietnamese Students' Association were hosting a barbecue at a house earlier this month, during the school's "Spring Fling," when several groups of people walking by made racial gestures or rude comments directed toward them.
The incident apparently started when a student walking by approached the barbecue and asked for a burger. When he was told it was a members-only event, and was asked to leave, attendees say he became combative, saying "Is it because I don't look like you? I eat rice and watch anime, too."
Things escalated when the student left and returned with a larger group of other students.
