Asian Americans have been the targets of violence based on their race and or ethnicity . This includes , but is not limited to , such events as the Rock Springs massacre , Watsonville Riots , Bellingham Riots in 1916 against South Asians , attacks upon Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor , and Korean American businesses targeted during the 1992 Los Angeles riots . Attacks on Chinese in the American frontier were common , this included the slaughter by Paiute Indians of forty to sixty Chinese miners in 1866 during the Snake War , and an attack on Chinese miners at Chinese Massacre Cove in 1887 by cowboys resulting in 31 deaths . In the late 1980s , South Asians in New Jersey faced assault and other hate crimes by a group of Latinos known as the Dotbusters . In the late 1990s , the lone death that occurred during the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting by a white supremacist was a Filipino postal worker
Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
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