From: wltsai@ocf.berkeley.edu (Wei-Lun Tsai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.african.american,ca.politics
Subject: Re: Asian Cop Murders White Woman in Asian Chancellor's Home
Date: 2 Sep 1992 00:37:17 GMT
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In article <1992Sep1.204645.16413@bert.eecs.uic.edu> spiff@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
>In article <65066@cup.portal.com> Arthur_T_Hu@cup.portal.com writes:
>>Asian Cop Murders White Woman in Asian Chancellor's Home
>>
>>Craig Chew, an Asian Male Heterosexual policeman shot Laura Marie
>>Miller, also known as Rosebud Abigail Denovo, in the home of the
>>the Asian Male Chancellor of UC Berkeley, which had seized People's
>>Park. Denovo, a white woman, sexual preference unknown, carried a
>>machete, presumably to persuade the Chancellor to change University
>>policy.
>
>Arthur, is this something that you quoted from some newspaper?
>It's kind of ambiguous since it indicated that she wanted the
>Chancellor to change university policy but didn't really indicate
>what policy in particular.  I assume from the sentence below
>that you mean the "problem" of having too many Asian Americans
>at Berkeley.
>
>>Asian Americans compose over one-third of the student body
>>at Berkeley, and are generally politically conservative and hostile to
>>progressive causes.
>>
>><back to reality>
>>
>>Sounds pretty absurd? Is this any different than how the Rodney King
>>case was handled? Heck, a band of merry protesters trashed cars and
>>bulletin boards and windows to protest the death of this looney case
>>as a martyr, and I'm demanding to know why they're not calling this
>>a case of racism and sexism.
>
>I got kind of lost here too. I assume when the woman died she
>became a martyr and presumably there was a riot of some kind.
>Well since there are protestors, and they're not protesting racism,
>or sexism, then what are they protesting?  
>
>Can you tell us a little more about the events that occurred?
>
>Jason Leigh
>

Last Tuesday morning (Aug. 25) Rosebud Abigail Denovo, a "People's park
activist" and "self-proclaimed anarchist," broke into U.C.Berkeley
Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien's house.  She was armed with a hunting knife and a
machete.  When Rosebud (born Laura Miller) broke into the house she tripped
a silent alarm and Oakland (or was it Berkeley?) police responded
immediately and escorted Chancellor Tien and his wife out of the house
through a window upstiars.

I forgot the details but according to the newspapers, police officer Craig
Chew confronted Rosebud Denovo in an upstairs bathroom and Rosebud swung the
knife at Mr. Chew twice but failed to hurt him.  In self-defence, Craig Chew
shot Rosebud Denovo four times and killed her.

As far as I can tell, there are no sexist or racist connotations involved in
this so-called murder.  Let's face it.  An obviously crazy and dangerous
woman broke into a chancellor's residence with intention to hurt or kill
somebody.  A police officer tried to stop her but she swung at the officer.
What was the officer supposed to do?  It just happened that the police was
Asian-American and the woman killed was white.

A bit of background here.  Recently U.C. Berkeley tried to reclaim People's
Park and built a volleyball and a basketball court in the "park."  (I say
"park" because it's hardly a place where I would feel comfortable hanging
around.)  In response to that, "People's Park activists", most of whom are
just bums and thugs who get excited at the chance to do something
destructive, held violent protests, looted stores en route of their protest,
and smashed campus windows.  Rosebud obviously thought she could solve the
problem by harming or killing Chancellor Tien and make herself known as a
hero among her fellow "activists."  The fact is, People's Park in Berkeley
is the center of crime (drugs, etc.) and filth.  Those "activists" are just
bums who are bored and try to find every single excuse to disrupt peace in
the Berkeley community.

BTW, 200 protesters did protest in response to the "murder" of Rosebud
Denovo and guess what they did?  Smashed campus windows!  Threw rocks at the
police who tried to stop them from entering UC campus!

Hope this clears up things a little.  The main point I am making is that
this incidence has nothing to do with sexism or racism as far as I can tell.

Wei-Lun Warren Tsai
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