Right to the City: CAAAV's Activism Against Police Brutality

As this digital exhibition demonstrates, NYPD officers often had few reservations using their positions of authority to inflict violence against Asian Americans. At the same time, New York’s Asian communities did not sit back and let these injustices persist without opposition. They were determined to reclaim their right to live in peace in the city they called home. CAAAV’s tireless activism, protest organizing, educational outreach, and coalition building during the late 1980s and 1990s succeeded in galvanizing Asian Americans across New York City to rise up and demand that the safety of their communities be guaranteed by the officers employed to protect it.