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Neck down, his body is completely disabled.

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He cannot move his arms or legs or nothing for food and. 

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For every little thing he has to be depend on somebody else.

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I cannot work. Now, I wanted to help support my parents.

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Now I cannot do that.

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I had so many other dreams in my life. 

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And now I cannot do them.

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In 1987 the Jersey journal, a local New Jersey newspaper got a got a letter. 

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From a group calling themselves the dot Busters. 

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And the letter promised to inflict violence upon Indians in the Jersey City area
until they left.

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So, it was essentially. 

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A manifesto, a call to war against all of the Indians living in that area.

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These crimes had been occurring. 

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Prior to the letter. 

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And people knew that there was growing animus against
the South Asian community in Jersey City.

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Nev Rose Modi had just moved to Jersey City with his parents. 

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And he had gone to a restaurant with a work colleague.

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And as they were leaving, a group of about 10 or 11
kids were hanging around outside the restaurant. 

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And started taunting him.

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They started calling him names. He was bald.

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So they were calling him Kojak and baldy, they called him Hindu.

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And a fight ensued.

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And in that fight. 

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They killed him, they took a brick and smashed his head into the ground.

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And every time he got up, they would just hit him again. 

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And prop him up and hit him again until finally. 

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He hit the back of his head and didn't get up again.

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He was then in a coma for a couple of days and then died in the hospital.

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It was August 98.

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The time was about 9:30 in the evening.

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I still remember one car pulled in the parking spot. They pull
their car from here.

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They sprayed some kind of chemicals and they sprayed from here. 

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Right here.

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I was holding four cups of tea in my hand. So, I, everything got on my palm. I got burned on my palm.

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So I was a little upset but you know, the boys, they started yelling and screaming. 

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And showing fingers and speaking bad words.

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And they said you Indians go back to your country. They did commit a crime.

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They committed battery and assault.

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And what made it a hate crime was the fact that they said. 

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You Indians go back to your country.

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That was just an additional element to what already was a crime. 

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Network, people. They approached us. 

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About the incidents and actually speaking, I was not ready to talk about this.

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But when I figured it out that these people. 

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They are helping me and they are on my side,

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Then I started talking about what happened.

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What we found out was that initially the law enforcement agencies were treating it as a minor misdemeanor.

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But in actuality, you know, this should have been treated as a hate crime.

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So due to San's timely intervention and working. 

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With these mainstream organizations and law enforcement. 

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We were able, to prosecute these perpetrators under the hate crime statutes.