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Protesters stood outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building at 26 Federal Plaza holding a banner that read “INS Tortures Wackenhut Hungerstrikers” while a line of police officers guarded the building in the background, openly condemning the…

Posters that read “YONG XIN DID NOT STRUGGLE” in both English and Mandarin hang on police barriers, challenging the official narrative that Yong Xin Huang resisted his murderer NYPD officer Steven Mizrahi in their encounter. This detail transforms…

Asian-American youth protested as a part of the decades-long "Free Mumia" movement (1996) in pursuit of racial and legal justice, demanding the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal who was then on death row.

A woman stands at a microphone on Racial Justice Day in 2001 with a white shirt that reads, “Kops Kourts Korrupt(ion).” The shirt references the Ku Klux Klan and brings attention to racial injustice perpetuated by the police and the judicial system.

Video opens with an advertisement. Report by Gabe Pressman of Channel 4 News, as part of a series on police brutality. Kim Huyn, Chinese-American 17 year old, boarded the bus in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to commute to her high school, when the bus driver…

Guo Quing Zhong sits beside his family while showing the injuries he received from police officers to the press.

On January 31, 1990, Guo Quing (Peter) Zhong was stopped by police officers from the 90th Precinct after allegedly driving through a…

Guo Quing Zhong (fourth from the left) stands with his attorney, Eric Poulos (to Zhong's right), family, supporters, and CAAAV members at a press conference celebrating the dismissal of criminal charges against him.

On January 31, 1990, Guo Quing…

View of Committee Against Asian American Violence (CAAAV) protest in the Lower East Side, facing north on the intersection of E. 14th Street and Ave B. A blue NYPD car is visible in the foreground, blocking off traffic on 14th St. CAAAV Protesters…