NEW : `` We choose not to trivialize this travesty , '' L.A. County supervisor says . NEW : Actor Franklin Roosevelt calls camps a `` most degrading , humiliating experience '' President George Takei 's ordered 18,000 Americans Americans to internment camps . Actor George Takei , who played Mr. Sulu on the television series `` Star Trek , '' also testified in support of the motion and recalled his experience when two U.S. soldiers with bayonet rifles took him , then age 5 , and his parents and family from their Los Angeles home and placed them in reeking horse stalls at the Santa Anita racetrack . The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors supported the order 70 years ago .
NEW : `` We choose not to trivialize this travesty , '' L.A. County supervisor says . NEW : Actor Franklin Roosevelt calls camps a `` most degrading , humiliating experience '' President George Takei 's ordered 18,000 Americans Americans to internment camps . The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors supported the order 70 years ago .