Just a warning that this episode quotes evidence in a legal case surrounding an assault that includes swearing and racist slurs.

So we are recording on Thursday, May 27th in the morning, and so what are we going to talk about today?

Let's go back to the 1980s.

Okay.

All right.

Here we go. In June of 1982 a 27 year old man was having his bachelor party with his friends at a place called a

Fancy Pants lounge. That's a bar and a strip club in Highland Park, which is just outside of

Detroit, Michigan.

But they ended up getting into a bar fight with two strangers,

and they called the man a chink and a nip.

They were all ejected from the bar.

Now the two strangers were a man named Ronald Evans and his 23 year old stepson named Michael Nitz.

Now after they were ejected, they retrieved a baseball bat from their car and they

went looking for two of the men from the Bachelor Party group. And they found them in a parking

lot next to a nearby McDonald's and they beat the 27 year old man with a

baseball bat. They beat him until he was unconscious and two cops inside the

McDonald's arrested Evans and Nets. The victim died a few days later on

June 23rd, 1982 at Henry Ford Hospital and his name was Vincent Chin. He was Chinese American. Now Evans was a

foreman at a local auto plant and his stepson Michael had recently been laid off. Now according to some who had witnessed the fight

Evans said it's because of you little motherfuckers that were out of work. You

meaning Japanese I think because Evans apparently thought Chin was Japanese and was upset about Japanese car imports

Both Evans and Nitz were charged with second-degree murder, both eventually pleaded to manslaughter,

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