The late Cha Vang, 30, a recent Hmong immigrant who spoke little or no English, met James Nichols, 28, of Peshtigo, Wis., who happened to be white, as so many people in Wisconsin still are, and apparently shot him twice in the hands, while both men were hunting squirrels in the north woods.

Unfortunately for Vang, the man he picked to shoot was an ex-convict, who hadn’t been socialized not to fight back, and he was apparently able to kill Vang with his hunting knife.

Although he’s technically the victim, rather than the attacker, he’s been charged with being a “felon in possession of a firearm”–i.e. the little rifle he was using to hunt squirrels. I hope that they’re not going to follow through with that charge, and are just using it as an excuse to hold him while they figure out how to explain to “Hmong leaders” that no crime has been committed. However, I can’t help remembering that Bernard Goetz did eight months in jail for the technical crime of possessing a firearm, even though he was found to have acted in self-defense.

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“He turns around and tells the guy that he needs to go to a different spot, not necessarily that he needs to leave the area, but that he was molesting his hunt and scaring the squirrels away,” she said. “Jim said the guy started talking in gibberish that he couldn’t understand and then fired at him.”

Nichols got hit in the right hand, James said. Then a second shot hit the little finger on his left hand, she said.

Killing Stirs Racial Concerns in North Woods of Wisconsin - New York Times, By BARBARA MINER, January 9, 2007

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 8 — Law enforcement officials said Monday that a Hmong hunter found dead Saturday in northern Wisconsin had been murdered after an “accidental meeting” between the victim and another small game hunter.

The killing has reignited racial tension in Wisconsin’s northern woods, where two years ago a Hmong hunter killed six white hunters and injured two others in a confrontation that included racial epithets.

Details remain sketchy about the latest killing, although there have been news reports that the two men had a confrontation.

“While there is much I would like to tell you, there is much I cannot tell you,” Sheriff James Kanikula said at a news conference Monday in Marinette, Wis., The Associated Press reported.

The finding that the death of the Hmong hunter, Cha Vang, 30, had been intentional was based on an autopsy. The case has been turned over to Wisconsin’s newly elected attorney general, J. B. Van Hollen.

The other hunter, James Nichols, 28, of Peshtigo, Wis., is being detained, but has not been charged in the killing. Mr. Nichols is being held on charges of violating parole and being a felon in possession of a firearm. A convicted burglar, he has been in custody since Saturday, when he showed up at a medical center with a gunshot wound.

Yesterday morning three kids boarded a PUBLIC school bus headed for a PUBLIC school in Minnesota. After taking their seats, the bus driver informed them he would not be giving them a ride home later that afternoon…or ever again.[See Patrick Cleburne's post, below:Ethnic privilege in St Paul for more. ]

Although the kiddies had taken this particular bus many times before they no longer qualified for passage because this bus was now reserved for Hmong-speaking students and ONLY Hmong-speaking students.

The school district apparently apologized for stranding the kids at school without a ride but made no apologies for their blatant discrimination against English-speaking students. Additionally, they have no intention of changing the policy.

This type of anti-American, anti-English language behavior happens often these days but rarely do we find the perpetrators to be so self-righteous and quite frankly, indignant.

Your tax dollars at work…

More info here:Students kicked off school bus in St. Paul.

School Board, Saint Paul Public Schools:

Elona Street-Stewart, Chair EMAIL: Elona.Street-stewart@spps.org

Kazoua Kong-Thao, Vice-Chair EMAIL: Kazoua.Kong-Thao@spps.org

Tom Conlon, Clerk EMAIL: thomas.conlon@spps.org

John Brodrick, Treasurer EMAIL: john.brodrick@spps.org

Anne Carroll, Director EMAIL: anne.carroll@spps.org

Tom Goldstein, Director EMAIL: tom.goldstein@spps.org

Al Oertwig, Director EMAIL: al.oertwig@spps.org

Officer Dan Bessant of Oceanside, California was murded on December 20, 2006–shot from 100 yards by a teenage gangster with a scoped rifle. It’s alleged that Meki Gaono, 17, has confessed to doing it.

What kind of name is Gaono, you ask? Apparently, Samoan, since he and another teenager, Penifoti Taeotui, are referred to as members of “a Samoan gang,” and there’s a rule that you can’t join a Samoan gang unless you’re a Samoan. (I know the Civil Rights Act of 1964 says different, but these are criminals.)

SignOnSanDiego.com

Teen pleads not guilty in Oceanside cop killing
By Jose Luis Jiménez
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

January 10, 2007

VISTA – A 16-year-old member of a Samoan gang accused of participating in the fatal shooting of an Oceanside police officer pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of murder and attempted murder.

Penifoti Taeotui was charged as an adult by the District Attorney’s Office. He is accused of firing a handgun at Officer Dan Bessant, who was killed Dec. 20 while assisting another officer on a traffic stop at Arthur Avenue and Gold Drive. An officer and a civilian who were near Bessant were not injured. Fellow gang member Meki Gaono, 17, from Oceanside, also faces murder and attempted murder charges; he is accused of firing at the same group with a rifle equipped with a scope, prosecutor Thomas Manning said.

If convicted of all charges, the Oceanside teenagers face a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, Manning said. Both remained jailed in lieu of $5 million bail each.

Here’s the media bias factor–according to Google News, of 88 stories mentioning Meki Gaono by name, 8 use the word Samoan.

(As of 6:10 EST today, and this story will make 89 and 9.) Memo to the media–ethnicity is not only important in crime stories, it’s interesting.

With its usual unerring news sense, The Drudge Report has picked up a good contender for the 2007 “Diversity is Strength” prize and given it a better headline than the original source (which probably lacked the courage). Kids kicked off a bus – for speaking English links to a story today from St Paul’s KSPTV:

Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn’t take them home that afternoon… Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, …were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.

The St Paul Public Schools system is apologizing, quite correctly, for the brutal irresponsibility it showed in abandoning the children at school:

It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of these kids and we made a mistake. The kids should have gotten home that day,” Dayna Kennedy, a public relations representative said

It is not apologizing for excluding the children because they are English speaking:

…the district points out, that particular bus route serves one of three language academies. The one at Phalen Lake is for Hmong students learning English. The academies all have separate bus routes to keep its students together. The district decided to enforce the separate routes beginning Monday…

So VDARE.com old friends the Hmong are involved! Doubtless what the St Paul Public Schools system is really trying to do is keep its students apart, given the murderous propensities of this charming group. Any guesses as to the ethnicity of the kindly, considerate bus driver?

Why should this result in privileges for non-English speakers and inferior status for the host community? Any bus routes for Engish speakers only? (With predictable spitefulness, the system is now going to exclude the Armstrong children on a residential technicality.)

Ask Meria Carstarphen, Schools Superintendent, and her Board, why non-English speakers get separate and unequal treatment in the St Paul Schools system.