The Author Believes the Police Questioned Him and Carlos About

question 24

Multiple Choice

The author believes the police questioned him and Carlos about possible gang membership because_____.

• A) the police thought the white men who attacked Carlos and his friend might have been in a gang
• B) the police saw gang insignias tattooed on the boys' bodies
• C) among the hundreds of thousands of Filipino youth living in Palo Alto at that time many thousands were known to be in gangs
• D) the police made a racist assumption that young Asian men are likely to be gang members

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