TINA MCDUFFIE: For decades, these volunteers have patrolled the streets of New York's Chinatown.

MAN (speaking Chinese): MCDUFFIE: Camaraderie and community in this historic neighborhood.

MAN (speaking Chinese): MCDUFFIE: "Chinatown Auxiliary," on Local, U.S.A. ♪ ♪ (wind blowing gently) (car horn honking in distance) (man speaking Chinese in background) - Same old price, remember?

- $1.00?

- Yep.

There is no inflation in here.

- I know.

Thank you very much.

- But the only difference is, my eyesight is not as good.

- That's okay.

- So, uh... - You did a good job.

Thank you.

- Okay.

Take care.

- You, too.

MAN (speaking Chinese): WOMAN (speaking Chinese): (whistle blowing in background) MAN: How you doing?

- Hey, Lou!

- How are you?

- Okay.

Pretty good.

- What's going on?

You coming in?

- Yep!

- All right.

(men speaking Chinese) (laughing) MAN: MAN 2: MAN 3: (woman laughing) MAN: WOMAN: (police radio running) (conversations, radio continue) (fan whirring) (slide carousel clicks) ♪ ♪ - Chinatown at that time is very old and small.

But Chinatown is prosperous by the casino money and engineered by the garment factories.

Chinatown is divided by area in terms of youth gangs.

Mott Street is the turf of the Ghost Shadows.

Pell and Bowerys are the Flying Dragons.

Division Street is the Tong On.

Each gang have their own base geographically.

If you are a member of a certain gang, you walk into another area, you know, you raise a red flag.

MAN (speaking Chinese): (typewriter keys clacking) (fan whirring) (slide carousel clicking) WOMAN (speaking Chinese): (speaking Chinese): (murmurs) (speaking Chinese): MAN (speaking Chinese): MAN (speaking Chinese): MAN: There are cases when the police did not act appropriately.

Whoever speak better English always, you know, get the upper hand.

The complainant get arrested.

Uh, I remember one of the old journalists taught me a good lesson.

He say, "If you can't fight them, you join them.

You join them, become part of them."

WOMAN: So you think join the auxiliary is one of the ways... - One of the way I join the, uh, mainstream society, because I want to let people think that I'm not a stranger.

MAN (speaking Chinese): (chuckling) MAN: (man speaking Chinese) (both imitating pig) (men speaking Chinese) WOMAN: (Yu responds) MAN (speaking Chinese): MAN and WOMAN: WOMAN: 54 years.

MAN: Okay, have a good day.

Everybody have a good day, okay?

Good and safe day.

Good and safe.

WOMAN (speaking Chinese): MAN: (woman speaking Chinese) (chuckles) (man speaking Chinese, chuckles) Mm-hmm, yeah.

WOMAN: MAN: (both laughing) WOMAN: (laughs) WOMAN: ♪ Fascination turned to love ♪ WOMAN: ♪ Passing glance... ♪ WOMAN: ♪ And I might have gone... ♪ WOMAN: ♪ It was fascination ♪ MAN and WOMAN: ♪ ♪ ♪ Seeing you alone ♪ ♪ With the moon... ♪ (scanner beeps) MAN (speaking Chinese): MAN (speaking Chinese): (speaking Chinese in background) MAN: ♪ ♪ (speaking Chinese): My fathers, he run for a good life at least three times in his life.

He run away from the Japanese.

He also run away from the communists.

He came down to Hong Kong, and he tell me, "Son, find a place where you don't have to run from war."

I actually have a good job in Hong Kong.

I was making good money, but...

I gave them all up to come here because I think I don't have to run from war at that time.

Uh, I was wrong.

DONALD TRUMP: That name gets further and further away from China, as opposed to calling it "The Chinese Virus."

(crowd cheering) REPORTER: A 91-year-old man pushed in Oakland's Chinatown, one of three attacks... REPORTER: A 61-year-old Asian woman is in critical condition at the hospital after a stranger hit her on the head with a rock.

REPORTER: Police say a 65-year-old woman was walking to church when a man punched and kicked her while shouting anti-Asian slurs.

REPORTER 4: 84-year-old Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee, knocked over while out for a walk.

He died a few days later.

REPORTER: There have been more than 2,500 incidents of anti-Asian hate crimes... REPORTER: A wave of violence against elderly Asian Americans putting communities across the country on edge.

MAN: Remember dress right?

This is right.

MAN: Put your right arm out.

(murmurs) Okay.

- Rest.

Comrades.

We're gonna start our program, and this is our coordinator.

And you all recognize.

And he's going to give us the first conversation.

- Hey, guys, thank you for coming.

Um, so you guys have heard that there's been, like, an uptick of violence in Chinatown recently, right?

Um, so, if you see businesses open that you want to, you know, poke your head in, say hi, just let them know you're out here, just in case something happens inside, they can come out and run to get you guys for help.

Um, be safe out there.

And if you need me for anything, please call.

And I will be there to help you.

All right?

Thank you.

Okay.

Have a safe tour.

MAN: Thank you.

- I'll see you guys later.

- Hold it, hold it.

It's not finished.

Do you have, uh, any more... - That's it-- yeah.

- Well, I, uh, let me remind you one thing.

From the past, I noticed, some members, when they start personal talking, they forget about looking around and what is going on around you.

Now, that is something I don't want to see.

When you, you two get together and forget about what is going on right around you, that is very dangerous.

Understand?

MAN: Yes.

Okay, uh... No question?

Present arm.

Dismiss.

(speaking Chinese in background) MAN (speaking Chinese): MAN (on radio): No, not yet.

(all speaking Chinese softly) (radios beeping, people talking in background, on radios) - (speaking Chinese) MAN (on radio) and WOMAN (both speaking Chinese): MAN: Team Four to Hin Lam and Tony.

Okay.

Anybody want to take a break or something like that, please let me know.

Thank you.

(people speaking Chinese in background) WOMAN (speaking Chinese): MAN and WOMAN: WOMAN: MAN: (woman speaking Chinese) MAN: WOMAN: MAN: More uniform... (speaking Chinese) (speaking Chinese in background) MAN: (conversing in Chinese) MAN: WOMAN: MAN: WOMAN and MAN: Okay.

MAN: WOMAN and MAN: MAN (chanting): No more hate.

No more hate.

(car horns honking, chant continues) (crowd chanting, clapping along): (cheering and applauding) MAN (speaking Chinese): (whistles blowing) MAN: I wish we didn't have to be here.

It's more than a year ago.

Chinatown was shut down.

Chinatown was shut down before any other place was shut down.

Because people didn't want to come here!

They thought, they come to Chinatown, they're gonna get COVID.

People saying, "Asians are always looking to invade, not assimilate."

(crowd booing) "That Asians are nothing more than root merchants, illegal aliens, and criminal smugglers."

(crowd boos) (whistles blowing) WOMAN: Another fourth-grader this week asked me if my parents are vaccinated, and I said, "Yes, they are," but I am so scared for them to go outside, so I tell them to stay home as much as possible for their safety just because they're Asian.

MAN: It's been a emotionally exhausting past week, past year, and, honestly, decades upon decades upon decades of being silenced, unheard.

Today is much needed.

♪ ♪ MAN (speaking Chinese): (man speaking on police radio) MAN: (men speaking Chinese) MAN: MAN 2: (locker closes) (men speaking Chinese, laughing) MAN: WOMAN: MAN 1 and MAN 2: MAN 2: - Ah?

Oh, (muted).

(people speaking Chinese in background) WOMAN and MAN: (people laughing) - Hey, guys.

Who's, who's getting honored today?

MAN: Uh, everyone up there is getting honored today.

- Who's 50 years?

MAN: Uh, he's 50, the D.I.

- You're 50?

- Yeah.

MAN: And then we have the lieutenant and, uh... - (speaking Chinese) - C.K.

is 50?

- Yeah, he's 50.

- C.K., you're 50, huh?

50 years.

- (speaking Chinese) - You're 40.

- 40.

- Congratulations.

MAN: (speaks Chinese) Look at my camera.

Smile for the camera.

(audience applauding) MAN: Auxiliary Lieutenant Jimmy Chan.

(audience applauding) And our final award this evening is for 50 years of service, Auxiliary Deputy Inspector Chiu Kyun Wong.

(audience applauding) - Yeah.

- Sir, thank you so much for your service.

- Yeah.

- Incredible, incredible achievement.

- Thank you for your service.

- Yeah.

- Thank you, sir.

- Thank you.

(audience applauding) MAN: I'm last, I'm last.

MAN: Okay.

MAN: Wait, wait, wait.

MAN: One more, one more, one more, one more.

MAN: Okay.

MAN: One more.

(speaking Chinese): MAN 1 and MAN 2: MAN: Don't remember I sacrificed 30, 40 years here, of my life.

I do everything I can try to create some sort of good life.

I think New York is my hometown.

I am not the same as, uh, average, uh, Americans.

But I am American Chinese.

A New Yorkers.

MAN (speaking Chinese): We take a coffee break.

Come, come with us.

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