{"id":16795,"date":"2023-02-04T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefilipinochronicle.com\/backup\/?p=16795"},"modified":"2023-02-04T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:23:33","slug":"tyre-nichols-half-moon-bay-suspect-confesses-corky-lee-and-how-you-can-see-emil-amok-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefilipinochronicle.com\/backup\/2023\/02\/04\/tyre-nichols-half-moon-bay-suspect-confesses-corky-lee-and-how-you-can-see-emil-amok-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyre Nichols; Half Moon Bay Suspect Confesses; Corky Lee; And How You Can See Emil Amok In NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Emil Guillermo

<\/em>After this week, there will be just one civil rights story in America\u2014the video of the beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of five Memphis Police officers, all of whom have been fired and charged this week with felonies, including second-degree murder and kidnapping.

Those who\u2019ve seen the video say Nichols will be a new generation\u2019s Rodney King, the African American man brutally beaten by the Los Angeles Police March 3, 1991.

The difference in Memphis is that most all the key players, in this case, are Black. The police officers, the police chief, and even Nichols. That means racial animus shouldn\u2019t be a factor in this case. This seems to be a pure case of police brutality where the only relevant color is blue.

<\/em>How did it happen that the supposed \u201cgood guys,\u201d five of them, went over the edge of the thin blue line to be accused of murdering an innocent man?

<\/em>Nichols is said to have been beaten to death like a human \u201cpinata.\u201d

<\/em>If the video is as ugly and repulsive as everyone says, the Blue Code will be tested. And exposed. Again.

Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park<\/strong>
The Nichols beating caught on video will push the California mass shootings off the front pages. But local news orgs are getting out new information about Chunli Zhao, 66, the man accused in the Half Moon Bay mass shooting that killed seven people.

On Jan. 26, Zhao told NBC News Bay Area he killed the seven people who died, though he thought he killed eight. The confession came in a jail house interview conducted by Janelle Wang, who spoke to Zhao in Mandarin, and got him to essentially confess to the shootings.

\u201cI did ask him about killing seven people and shooting eight\u2026 and he admitted that he did do it,\u201d Wang said in her report, adding that Zhao felt he had undergone years of being bullied and overworked. Zhao also believes he suffers from some sort of mental illness.

\u201cHe says\u2026 he was not in his right mind,\u201d Wang said.

Zhao was charged on Jan. 25, with seven counts of murder, one count of attempted murder. I\u2019m wondering if he had a court appointed attorney who was language competent. Indeed, I would have kept Zhao away from any reporters.

I didn\u2019t feel sympathy for him until I heard about the jail house interview.\u00a0

<\/em>I\u2019ve done some jail house interviews myself, one a serial rapist\/murder whom I testified against. But I know how a reporter\u2019s good \u201cget,\u201d may get in the way of Zhao\u2019s search for impartial justice.

<\/em>We won\u2019t have that problem in Monterey Park. The suspected killer, Huu Can Tran, 72, took his own life after the rampage on Jan. 21 at the Star Ballroom killed 11 people, and wounded nine.

<\/em>Investigators are still searching for a motive, but with Tran dead, blame seems moot as the funerals begin and people struggle with grief.

<\/em>I found myself staring at a loop on TikTok for minutes. It was a video of the first person identified as a victim, Mymy Nhan, 65, a regular at the Star Dance studio. Nothing I\u2019ve seen in all the coverage quite captures the emotional loss of Monterey Park like watching Mymy on that TikTok loop, dancing endlessly.

Corky Lee, And My New York City Frigid Fringe Show<\/strong>
Jan. 27 is the day my old friend, the photographer Corky Lee, died of complications from COVID-19. He is the first and only person I know who died of COVID-19 specifically. He died before there was any vaccine.

About three years ago, we talked about trying to get me to do my one-man theater piece, \u201cEmil Amok: The Amok Monologues\u201d in New York. The pandemic killed that idea.

But now that people are out and about, I am venturing out of my closet in California and coming to a live audience.

\u201cEmil Amok: Lost NPR Host Found Under St. Marks, and Other Stories\u2026\u201d is my one-hour show were I talk about the absurdities of life as an Asian American Filipino.

There\u2019s the racist history that\u2019s common to all Asians in America. I talk about my colonized father, and how I worked my up in media to being the first Asian American to host NPR\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered.\u201d I also talk about Harvard\/affirmative action, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll sneak in a Corky story.

It\u2019s only a comedy because in all our stories there\u2019s too much pain.

Come see the show at the New York City Frigid Fringe, and as my show title suggests it\u2019s at the intimate Under St. Mark\u2019s Theater in Manhattan, Feb. 16- Mar. 4. The show\u2019s on at various times, so click on the link to get all the dates and show times. And even if you\u2019re in Hawaii, each show will be streamed live.

Get tickets at this link: https:\/\/www.frigid.nyc\/event\/6897:338\/<\/a>

EMIL GUILLERMO<\/strong> is a journalist and commentator. He was a member of the Advertiser editorial board, and a columnist for the Star-Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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