This is a clear barrier to justice here
Ngo came face to face with hate earlier this month when someone hurled racist slurs at him and then proceeded to throw garbage at him. I was . stunned and realized it could happen to anybody. Not just the elderly and those who don t know how to speak English, Ngo says.
That was his turning point.
He tried to report the crime on the Vancouver Police Department website but found the form was only available in simplified and traditional Chinese not English. East Asian doesn t mean Chinese, it also means Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, those who are born here as well, he says.