NEW : ` ` We choose not to trivialize this travesty , '' L.A. County Sheriff says . NEW : ' The board said then it was difficult `` if not impossible to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Japanese aliens . '' George Takei 's death was a ` ` most degrading , humiliating experience '' President Franklin Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps . Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the order two years ago .
NEW : ` ` We choose not to trivialize this travesty , '' L.A. County Sheriff says . NEW : ' George Takei 's death was a ` ` most degrading , humiliating experience '' President Franklin Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps . Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the order two years ago .