workers accused him of being japanese and taking the jobs and this is a time in detroit when the industry was experiencing a downturn and people blame japan for making the fuel efficient cars and people lost the jobs in detroit so if you looked like you could be japanese in detroit you could become a target and that's what happened to vincent. he got into an altercation in the bar. the two men followed him out and beat him to death with a baseball bat and didn't serve a single day in prison. they paid about a $3,000 fine and spent a couple months on probation but when you look at what is happening today, happening over the last year and a half the scapegoating of asians goes back more and a century and until we address it and acknowledge this aspect of american history really i think