The Chinatown Massacre: One of Boston's Deadliest Crimes, 30 Years Later

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3 жыл бұрын

In 1991, three armed men came into a Chinatown social club and shot six people execution style. Five of the victims died, but one survived. In this NBC10 Boston original documentary, a witness shares his story for the first time, community leaders react to the shooting and the FBI explains why they are continuing their search for one of the gunmen 30 years later.
Produced by: Jim Haddadin, Ryan Kath, Shira Stoll and Aaron Strader.

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@anthonyross-702 2 жыл бұрын

When the detective said, "We don't encounter massacres in Boston." I almost spit out my drink.

@euclideanspace2573 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a terrorist attack that killed like 3 and left hundreds injured, many with limbs blown off? Didn't some Brit soldiers execute 3 for throwing snowballs?

@dbceltics11 2 жыл бұрын

He obviously forgot about the Blackfriars Massacre.

@yuhcgte 2 жыл бұрын

These Europeans brought this backward medieval mentality and now everyone has to suffer.

@joeyg7458 2 жыл бұрын

@@yuhcgte that’s a dumb generalization

@huttnerd 2 жыл бұрын

Uhmm, the Boston Massacre? Lol

@kimberlywilson5161 Жыл бұрын

I hate when people say this type of stuff doesn't happen here. Yes it does! It happens every where. No area is exempt.

@cameupstarvin7351 Жыл бұрын

Yeah but this type of stuff doesn't happen here.

@barrywhite1161 Жыл бұрын

@@cameupstarvin7351 OKEY

@EchoJ Жыл бұрын

@thundercock2029the ones that live rent-free in your massive, Cro-Magnon head, perhaps.

@lisaspencer1057 2 ай бұрын

Hasn’t happened in my city. Hasn’t even been a murder here in like 20 years. There are more places in the US that it hasn’t happened than it has.

@tarik6990 2 ай бұрын

Canada is quite exempt so is Iceland, Australia, New Zealand.

@devoncavan6502 2 жыл бұрын

You can tell that witness is traumatised, god bless him.

@Lisa1111 2 жыл бұрын

My papa is Filipino and I grew up going to Chinatown here in Seattle. I can remember when Wah Mee was still operational. My grandfather painted murals within the dark stairwells in the underground clubs in Chinatown 🥰

@lintontoussaint4895 2 жыл бұрын

Sure he did crazy

@glenncurley680 2 жыл бұрын

I love Art!

@Lisa1111 2 жыл бұрын

Me also @Glenn 🤗

@MrKaikeo 2 жыл бұрын

I remember that, growing up in Tacoma and hearing about that incident in Seattle

@josephgee2515 2 жыл бұрын

Your Papa might also be Ethnic Chinese from The Philippines.

@JT111678 2 жыл бұрын

Chinatown was a crazy place at night with drugs and prostitutes dodging the police. Its been much quieter the last 15 years.

@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 2 жыл бұрын

This new generation is lucky to not having to see such things.

@sostdm617 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 exactly

@kimd7300 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much RICO killed the Chinatown Tongs in the late 90's/early 2000's. You think the massacres in Boston is bad, you should look up the Tong wars in San Francisco. The RICO stature was used right after they finished with the Mafia.

@Pats308 2 ай бұрын

No it’s quieter because the ma and pa stores are being forced out by big corps. Also with technology they know better than to run an organized crime now. I missed the old chinatown but also find some of the draws with the current ones. Back then if you try to pull a tiktok video….😅

@southie3177 Ай бұрын

@@Pats308Chinatown is the only neighborhood that hasn’t been gentrified beyond recognition 🤷‍♂️. I liked it better when the Combat Zone still was a thing. Good times

@xiube6979 2 жыл бұрын

Hung Tien Pham is a Vietnamese name - go to Vietnam to find him if he has not already passed away. Many Northern VNmese fled to Hong Kong during the 80s and got resettled in the USA. Just like Tony Montana in Scarface - these guys are the same. They are ruthless and fearless.

@josephlee961 2 жыл бұрын

Xiu Be, You are absolutely correct. I would assume the majority of Chinese can easily recognize a name like Hung Tien Pham is not a Chinese name, but rather a Vietnamese or Cambodian. The other two were also fake Chinese. Hahaha. I have to laugh at my own writing. :)

@LuckyDuckie115 2 жыл бұрын

They are Chinese born in Vietnam at least two of the shooters are, the third wasn't verified

@kumarj4693 Жыл бұрын

Most secret societies operating in America and Canada in the 70’s and 80’s used Vietnamese to do most of their dirty and ground work. The top heads were Cantonese from Hong Kong or mainland China while their underlings were mostly Vietnamese.

@jeano66 Жыл бұрын

Wow, this brings back old memory... 2 of the 5 victims(David & Van) were from Monterey Park, CA. They are Chinese Vietnamese, and part of a Monterey Park Vietching gang back in 80s & 90s(This was before the complete revival of LA WahChing); David(taikuong) was one of the leaders of Monterey Park/Alhambra set. I remember when Peter, Afai, and other homies returned from Boston and told us. They even said Van died last because his body was still warm when BPD went in. This was a hit because of territory and no.4. Even 40 years later, I haven't forgotten. RIP homies...

@parkjungmoon694 Жыл бұрын

how about we stop spreading the cancer of PC with pc euphemisms like pass away? i thought asian people are supposed to be tough and not scared of death and not scared to say somebody died and they don't need to use pass away...

@qadriharris 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting... giving the nation the understanding of this crime that occurred and how serious the situation is also how it impacted the Boston Chinatown community for more then a decade.

@cbrreezzyy69 2 жыл бұрын

How much you want to bet the majority of Chinatown in Boston knows either what happened to this guy or where he’s at

@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer 21 күн бұрын

Yeah, that came across really strongly in the interviews.

@AnthonySopran0 10 күн бұрын

I'm sure. Triads are tough.

@dullsearake Жыл бұрын

They didn’t explain much about the actual gang war. RIP to victims

@cynthiatolman326 Жыл бұрын

He wasn't very old then, and tho there's always a possibility he's died, I think there's a very good chance he's still alive. Everyone says its history, why bring this up? To those men who were killed and their families, their deaths are just as relevant today as they were one minute after it happened, and a man capable of evil is still living his life without any repurcussions. He needs to be brought to justice.

@johnshields6852 2 жыл бұрын

The guy says massacres don't happen in Boston, the Boston massacre was an actual event that started the revolutionary war that was the begining of the USA, and ironically it started from a snowball being thrown at a British soldier, crazy right, there were many reasons obviously, taxes, tyranny, but that innocent moment ignited the birth of the nation.

@jeannesandner1918 2 жыл бұрын

nous les french, appellent cela "la sérendipité"! après on vous a envoyé Lafayette !

@euclideanspace2573 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, some Brits executed three people for tossing snow. Another "massacre", some terrorist blew up a marathon, killed 3 and injured hundreds. What a delusional statement, historically and factually wrong.

@euclideanspace2573 2 жыл бұрын

@bvoasis 2013 is very recent.

@lordoffaiyum9727 Жыл бұрын

Boston is know for these things. Its a set it off city. Always has been

@garrysekelli6776 29 күн бұрын

There was ice inside the snowball. And only like 3 people died.

@johnrice8674 3 жыл бұрын

Boston was tough back then

@TheMerryPup 2 жыл бұрын

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

@manchuk1d 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly he's one of the few lucky ones that probably split and lived his life and died, i think he never even told his boys where he's going.

@addisonhinson6290 2 ай бұрын

He could be Alive still

@1911Earthling Жыл бұрын

My happiest memories from childhood are going with all my many uncles ,aunts and cousins to Chinatown in BOSTON. Wonderful atmosphere of sheer pleasure. The owner would always make a appearance to say hello. Fair prices great food and dinning pleasure. A stroll thru Chinatown and a very late night meal. Just a great destination.

@trash-girl84 8 ай бұрын

they serve rat in the chinese food down there lol i would NEVER eat there after seeing what ive seen.

@1911Earthling 8 ай бұрын

@@trash-girl84 rats were taken on the ultra long distance Polynesian voyages of discovery in the pacific as FOOD. instrumental for their culture to have survived.

@whiteheart6827 Жыл бұрын

In the late late 80's like 89. I went to one of these gambling dens with a friend that was meeting a friend. Upon entering we were frisked. I who had been around alot of crazy things was petrified and completely out of my element. On the left on a table upon entering was a basket full of guns were the security guy had frisked us. deeper inside they were gambling about 10 people. It was all very surreal and realized at that moment the Asian gangsters were much different. I was relieved upon existing.

@backbay2242 9 ай бұрын

The Combat Zone. There was another very famous local case I remember from that time. A football player from Harvard and some buddies went for a night out in The Zone and was tragically killed when things got out of hand. Andy Puopolo was his name. Interesting case with cultural and class issues involved. I remember this was on the news every night.

@katastrafika5253 7 ай бұрын

Andy was a Southie guy I believe?

@user-kb6xn6ig7k 3 ай бұрын

@katastrafika5253 : fyi, Andrew Puopolo was from the North end.

@TheLochs 2 ай бұрын

Combat Zone, I haven't heard that term in ages. I used to play in a band in Boston, we always went to Chinatown for late night food and "cold tea". Moon Villa was a favorite spot. I always wondered how they got way with serving alcohol after hours being it was so well known to everyone. I guess the Police didn't care and things were different there. Its way different now.

@radesaul Ай бұрын

@@TheLochs I came to the comment section to see if anybody called it by its real late night name "The Combat Zone" I especially wanted to see if anybody remembered "Cold Tea" $8 bucks a pot Congrats you get the Wicked Cool award

@TheLochs Ай бұрын

@@radesaul Spanks

@ezedikeohamadike9003 Жыл бұрын

I think 100K will be a good reward

@bp2352 2 жыл бұрын

This is a documentary where you don’t know really what’s going on.

@elainevankat5353 2 жыл бұрын

Lol!! The most weirdest video!!

@jacquir8331 Жыл бұрын

If you lived in Boston during this time everyone knew what was going on. Everyone knew the Vietnamese immigrant wave into Boston started a war in Chinatown.

@mrjacktraeger 12 күн бұрын

Was a nothing burger they just kept saying how this stuff doesn't happen. Was there even any evidence other than the guy who had just been shot in the head. How do you just send these guys away 15 yrs later off one testimony.

@oldschool8432 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for what happened to the people but this is a really good an interesting film

@BeeVan-YT Жыл бұрын

The Boston Massacre is literally the name given and the old man really says massacres just don’t happen in Boston 😂😩

@thevirtualjonathan1284 8 ай бұрын

siny is in mci norfolk now. really nice and humble guy, taught himself how to play guitar, cooks pork buns and makes sandwiches from scratch. a bit of an elder in the camp who is just trying to live as simple and peaceful a life as he can while incarcerated. despite his crimes, i and many others interactions with him were nothing but positive.

@Robin-xt7yo 2 ай бұрын

You mean he can make pork buns at MCI Norfolk? They let him cook?

@thevirtualjonathan1284 2 ай бұрын

@@Robin-xt7yo Norfolk is unlike any other correctional facility in MA, and anywhere else in the country to my knowledge. it is designed like a college and each housing unit has a kitchen with a fridge, freezer, oven and stove (besides a microwave which is found everywhere else). The commissary also includes ground beef, chicken breast, green bell pepper, onion, and flour.

@J20666 Жыл бұрын

Never settled if the criminals are not bring back to justice.

@onewingedangelsephiroth1561 Жыл бұрын

I know that this is a serious video, but c'mon you gotta laugh at the Federal Government's addiction to acronyms. U-FAP. No I don't, you're the one who was fapping 😂

@TheEnigmaticBM39 3 жыл бұрын

They sure don't talk about this enough in mainstream media.

@Jadeleev 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Boston and had no idea of this

@heroman2511 2 жыл бұрын

@@Jadeleev asian gangs all over Chinatown back in the days.

@cbrreezzyy69 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a 30 year old case…

@HULLGRAFFITI 2 жыл бұрын

why would they ?? Its 3 decades ago lol

@bbwng54 2 жыл бұрын

@@HULLGRAFFITI Holocaust was in the 1940s- why talk about it? Stalin killed millions of Soviet people after WWII- why talk about it? Slavery happened thousands of years ago and the Civil War resulted in > 700,000 deaths- why talk about it? Lincoln was only one person who was assassinated - why talk about him?

@kimmccabe1422 2 ай бұрын

Dear God, when it comes to gangs, bullys, worthless, violent human beings,, can yu give good ppl the courage to speak up and NOT BE COWARDS. Thank you. Amen.

@vinnyvincent2862 2 жыл бұрын

"Big Trouble in Little Chinatown" ! R.I.P. ALL ❤🙏

@LEORedSun Жыл бұрын

Why people don't talk to law enforcement in Chinatown? Not just the language issue but because all Chinatown in the old days only consist few blocks which means if you pissed someone off you will see this person the next day. BTW, these are Vietnamese Chinese. They are not the traditional Chinese Triad or Tongs.

@blessingyayra6988 2 ай бұрын

I was 1yr and 2days when this happened...here i am years later watching this for the first time....may their souls rest peacefully 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

@fmthe 2 ай бұрын

Everyone on crime show says “Crime like this doesn’t happen in this town/city”.

@rikhughes6452 2 жыл бұрын

I bet to this day there are the same triad type protection rackets going on in Boston China Town as in all China towns in the world

@user-xf2qq7vu9u Ай бұрын

You’d be wrong.

@asha4736 2 жыл бұрын

The disparity between what the cops are saying, and what the residents are saying in hilarious. There's obviously not been much communication going on either at the time or in the intervening years if the cops are saying, "People were scared, it was a scary time", then the Chinatown residents who were there are all like, "Hey it was between the gangs, about gang business. If you kept your nose out of it, it wasn't going to be a problem for you"

@ggurks 2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but that chinese woman also said that streets were very quite after the shooting and people were afraid to go out. So not everyone was so relaxed about it

@asha4736 2 жыл бұрын

@@ggurks Oh absolutely it would have affected people- I was just laughing at the editing of the video where it portrayed the police saying one thing, then immediately after, the residents saying another

@josephfung3058 2 жыл бұрын

u also have to remember where these ppl came from. even if u are afraid, u dont say nothin to cops. these folks came from placed where trust in authority is next to nil

@asha4736 2 жыл бұрын

@@josephfung3058 Very, very true.

@cynthiatolman326 Жыл бұрын

It didn't affect them unless they were in the wrong place at the right time. People who must live around violence play games in their heads and rationalize why they won't be a victim, just so they can continue to live a normal life. Such as, If I make myself believe it only happens in that place, and I don't go to that place, then I'm okay'.

@m1herrmann160 2 жыл бұрын

Nam Tam is currently at old colony correctional. He's very humble and friendly, broken English but friendly. You would never know this man was involved in something so violent. I'm sure there are still remnants of the Ping On but can't say for sure.

@waynecote31 Жыл бұрын

I think I met him while I was in the infirmary at OCC MEDICAL MEDIUM, there were 4 beds, mine , his and two other beds being taken,, but the other two, beds ,those two guy's were fighting, one guy was gonna stab the other for snoring...I actually talked him out of it, the guy was out like a light , and didn't have a clue!!!

@m1herrmann160 Жыл бұрын

@@waynecote31 any relation to a Dan from revere? Same last name. Also did you meet Rosenthal when at old colony? If ya dont know his story google it. :)

@marc2638 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure he is very humble after 30 years in the klink.

@Kane-ez 11 ай бұрын

I believe I was with one of these guys at Souza barinowski 2006

@m1herrmann160 11 ай бұрын

@@Kane-ez there's a good chance they were at Souza before "rolling back" to a medium. I don't know how long they were at the max though.

@reneedennis2011 23 күн бұрын

Thank you for this video. I remember a similar case in WA State years ago, but I don't remember this case.

@patmccormick9972 3 күн бұрын

The Wah-Mee Massacre.

@reneedennis2011 3 күн бұрын

@@patmccormick9972 Thank you.

@gedjones5977 2 жыл бұрын

The suspects fled?? You mean you actually let them leave it was days and days after you knew their names, so why were they not put on a border watch list?

@DanteAtropos 2 жыл бұрын

Let's be honest no one at the border is looking at who is fleeing. They only care who is trying to get in.

@gone.golfing 2 жыл бұрын

Man he fled and went back to China. He was OUT in ‘91 and never looked back.

@Alienspecies635 19 күн бұрын

I can't believe I'm just seeing and hearing this for the first time. I live just a few miles away but have been to China town so many times. They got great massage parlors. Chinatown is a very small section of Boston but it's a nice little spot and it's definitely like its own separate community.

@Jadeleev 3 жыл бұрын

I just had a great day in Chinatown the other day!

@backbay2242 9 ай бұрын

Boston used to be quite dangerous in that era.

@ogozo0932 2 жыл бұрын

Did he say that massacres don’t happen in Boston?

@bhall4996 2 жыл бұрын

Nor tea parties

@dbceltics11 2 жыл бұрын

Stephen The Sky Dragon Tse was convicted of two counts of attempted murder in the mid 90's, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and then, POOF, he disappeared.

@VuTang858 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a trip hearing those Viet guys speak Chinese. It’s always Chinese guys speaking Vietnamese in Cali.

@msbrownbeast 2 жыл бұрын

Those 2 Vietnamese suspects are most likely Hoa (ethnic Chinese). Many of the Vietnamese boat people are ethnic Chinese.

@ipleedafif8033 2 жыл бұрын

There were many Vietnamese who speak cantonese.

@josephgee2515 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Cali, it's always been normal hearing Viets speak Chinese as most are Ethnic Chinese who speak multiple dialects in one sentence. I wonder where you live that it doesn't seem normal to you.

@josephgee2515 2 жыл бұрын

@@msbrownbeast Bro, there's so many different dialects that are similar to Cantonese like Nai or Hai Namese or many of the others from Vietnam

@VuTang858 2 жыл бұрын

@@josephgee2515 weird, I am in SD and frequent OC and LA often.

@nnyv0040 2 жыл бұрын

Only $30K reward for information leading to an arrest? Brianna Kulper (young lady who was slained recently) had an reward of $250K. Need to up the offer for six lost lives.

@cheek238 2 жыл бұрын

It won't surprise me if they had made meatballs of the unarrested shooter years ago.

@michaelwurtzburger5008 13 күн бұрын

“this doesn’t happen in Boston” sent me to the moon 😂

@mrjacktraeger 12 күн бұрын

Right I guess they forgot about a guy named whitey bulger over in southie. This whole thing was them continually just repeating that, like how hard is it to fathom a gunfight in a underground card game with a lot of cash floating around in an area ride with gangs. Doesn't even seem like they had evidence other than the guy half alive who still had a bullet in his head, so he just said it was them and that's that nothing on their trial or anything

@vampoftrance Жыл бұрын

Im so glad I got out of Boston before this. I loved Chinatown and ate my breakfast there and shopping too. Boston should be safe.

@glenncurley680 2 жыл бұрын

There is Good and Evil with in every Race! The greed that exists, is the biggest Evil of all.

@jx22283 2 жыл бұрын

More☻️ tho...

@finisher2024 2 жыл бұрын

Seems like the detective was newly posted in this area and the day he joined the office this interview was done. So please pardon him for not knowing the surrounding, because his tongue slip and he said "we don't witness massacre in Boston area". This gunshot and killing was first in the history of Boston, Massachusetts.

@bos7708 11 күн бұрын

Imagine a place called the Combat Zone without a massacre or 2. I mean Boston was built on Massacres

@henrysantos121 Жыл бұрын

Matatan.⭐🤔⭐. Ribirin Hs, I feel so sorry for all the family members.🙏.

@gremsta 2 жыл бұрын

Why are people so surprised, there are ethnic Vietnamese people that were raised/born in China just as there are ethnic Chinese people raised/born in Viet Nam. They're neighbours lol

@timbuktoo7050 2 жыл бұрын

I believe most people understand but its the first time that ever thought of Vietnamese person going up in China or vise versa

@VeeBeeZee22 Жыл бұрын

The Vietnamese in China called Jing people.

@cmc784 2 жыл бұрын

It is true that Asian Americans have a more fearful situation today than 1991, that was a single incident cause by the Vietnamese gang. Now it is purely hated by discrimination.

@charlesa1039 Жыл бұрын

He said I got the record for finding 5 bodies at a time WTF

@mrjacktraeger 12 күн бұрын

Rite like congratulations bro arent you just one badass hospital security guard😂

@NedKelly663 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this like it was yesterday I was only 10

@kevinerhart5402 9 ай бұрын

Pls pay more attention to the sound!

@stephenredmond6972 Жыл бұрын

Any word on the people that died maybe a name or picture a family member interviewed 😮

@adrianyik25 2 жыл бұрын

30:28 you can see 3 of the younger victims are also Vietnamese while the other 2 Chinese victims are in their 50's. It looks like the 3 gunmen went in to kill those 3 younger Vietnamese?

@2113pinch 2 ай бұрын

Some of these interviews seem a bit of a stretch for being relevant to the case. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@BlackyBrownDestruction9337 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, that's a long time ago...might as well talk about the British atrocities of the Chinese when it comes to forced opium addiction

@vicdavidfigueroa4419 7 күн бұрын

I was jump in middle school by an Asian gang in Charlestown, but I never had hate for the Asian community’s or people that come to this country for freedom. The culture is a staple of Boston and appreciate the history knowledge

@charlesdenman9052 Жыл бұрын

There were shameful atrocities against Chinese immigrants from Vancouver to Toronto. From Los Angeles to Boston, this happened generations ago and we are, as white men, appalled by it. The Chinese were gold miners, railroad laborers and the deserved our kindness and appreciation. But I don’t cut the Chinese Communist any slack today.

@chriswebb6153 2 жыл бұрын

People thinking they're minding their own business is causing the most trouble.those gains need to think everybody's watching them and they're not going to put up with this s*** that's just spineless crap.

@annadad2023 2 жыл бұрын

I remember America's Most Wanted did a piece about this tragedy.

@duypham76 2 жыл бұрын

Never knew Boston had a Chinatown. I guess Chinatown is in every state.

@gij123 2 жыл бұрын

Hell yea Chinatown used to shake back then

@duypham76 Жыл бұрын

@P Louisiana

@celestecruthird7842 Ай бұрын

@@gij123Absolutely!😊

@TheWilliamalexander6 12 күн бұрын

Wow i never heard about this

@Filip333ify 2 жыл бұрын

12:34 David Hasselhoff also came to help with the mess

@katiix 3 жыл бұрын

Damnn don't watch this when you're hungry, that Chinese food looks soo good right now! 🤤😍

@TIMB1222 7 ай бұрын

I was Working 2 blocks away as a bartender that night, it was a chaotic night downtown. Whenever the chinatown gang members would come in the bar after that night, everyone would get so nervous that you could cut the tension with a knife. A year or so before that night I was walking through the little park in Chinatown and I stepped over a guy I thought was passed out drunk, later on I found out he was dead. He was killed by some gang because he would not pay protection money, he had $5000 in his pocket that was untouched. He was a Chinese business man.

@Robin-xt7yo 2 ай бұрын

Wow.

@user-kb6xn6ig7k 2 ай бұрын

23:56 - horrible crime scene...

@ArghMatey Жыл бұрын

Gotta appreciate how stylish Phams Phro is

@comicog7652 2 жыл бұрын

Why is this not a Mark Wahlberg movie ..

@danschuster5187 3 жыл бұрын

I remember going to that club after hours I did maintenance for that restaurant

@davechristian7543 2 жыл бұрын

was there a movie made about this?

@alexthai5223 Ай бұрын

Not that I am aware of

@mikelclark9723 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Boston and you can't pay me to live there

@traviscoates6878 2 ай бұрын

7:20 those are new $20 bills, not ones from 1990

@johnshields6852 2 жыл бұрын

Why wait 30 years to put it out there, why not back in 1991?

@rapman5791 2 жыл бұрын

This was a huge news story when it happened. Just because you are just now hearing about it yourself doesn’t mean it wasn’t “put out” when it happened. j/s

@canman5060 2 жыл бұрын

Enough movies made in Hong Kong depict all these horrors in extreme graphic details.

@Ellen-hs7zb 2 жыл бұрын

You cannot co-exist with the devil!

@LowescC 25 күн бұрын

not to state the obvious- but wasn't that area of Boston also known affectionally as the "Combat Zone"...???

@user-zp1st3kf1k 2 ай бұрын

😢

@gingerbee98 2 ай бұрын

I lived & worked in a major Asian capital city for 4 years. My kids went to school there. I experienced the power & influence of the saving face culture first-hand literally hundreds of times, from the seemingly innocuous (albeit obnoxious) to being dragged into labour court to defend two pages of 100% fabricated, unprovable lies by an employee & I walked away from that having to pay the guy two of the three months' salary he sued for. Corruption was epidemic & intrinsic to every aspect of life there, foreigner or national - from traffic police bribes to having to literally budget for the inevitable bribe to get building plans approved to a large institution being unable to fire a thief because their family was connected & sooo much more. The cultural differences became more pronounced as the years went by & the incompatibilities more obvious. Western values meant little to nothing. Ultimately, I was a guest in that country & they had no responsibility to cater to my beliefs so I packed up & returned to my own country. Was it a good experience for me & my kids? Yes & no. Would I do it again? Nope.

@junaubomber6977 Жыл бұрын

Is the lady still afraid to call the godfather/sky dragon a mobster or is she in denial?

@chrisbond7324 9 ай бұрын

I was in Boston in the late 80s early 90s it was a nice place they saying it was crazy it wasn't crazy it was the most laid-back City I ever saw I'm from the New York area

@sostdm617 6 ай бұрын

You must of not lived in Roxbury back then

@chrisbond7324 6 ай бұрын

@@sostdm617 Roxbury's roxbury it's not boston

@One.DeSanctis. Күн бұрын

We're you in Boston or were you a student in Boston? The students were pretty segregated from the townies back then.

@trualways911 2 жыл бұрын

He's back in Vietnam long time ago.

@MutedAds 2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Can’t say if I’ve seen him

@88lew 2 жыл бұрын

I love my community , no snitch we mind our business.

@8thyoutube486 Жыл бұрын

The whole “stop snitching” movement actually started in Boston.

@brians7901 11 ай бұрын

They " Don't encounter massacres in Boston". Except for this one. And blackfriars. And the 99 diner. And The Boston massacre

@gemmasamp 20 күн бұрын

Yeah the guy can’t even call himself a Bostonian saying that honestly because what are you talking about 😂

@TheLegPumpkin 2 ай бұрын

I lived right there on Tyler st in 2002 and had no idea of this before which is surprising as I read a lot on Boston true crime as before I moved into Chinatown I lived in Dorchester right near Whitey Bulgers personal grave yard under the highway. Chinatown was an odd area, during the day it was all Chinese but as soon as it got dark all the Chinese disappeared and prostitutes and crack dealers filled the streets. At the time it was clear there was some sort of understanding with the cops that it was allowed to happen. The Asian gangs had nothing to do with non asians but there were a lot of shops that operated in gray areas of weapons and bootlegging dvds and a lot of unmarked doors next to the Chinese restaurants that served alcohol after hours that people shuffled into quickly and you wouldn't want to have a group pour out of if you caused trouble.

@leo19667 17 күн бұрын

That aged photo looks very familiar.

@teebo5298 2 жыл бұрын

A Chinatown in dam near every city around the world lol

@WWG1WWGA 2 жыл бұрын

"Massacres dont happen in Boston" - Italians leaving the room.... 😂🤦

@ITube4RealFun 2 жыл бұрын

These 3 guys are chinese who were born in vietnam, they have vietnamese names. Most chinese in VN speak cantonese as can be heard during the interview. The china town in Boston hangs taiwanese flag so I assume most of them are from taiwan.

@sgcl10658 2 жыл бұрын

Since it's an old chinatown so the flag could represent the old China aka Republic of China before the Communist took over.

@oakspines7171 Жыл бұрын

No, it does not happen anywhere, anytime. Do not generalize it and make it a social normalcy. This happened because of gangs ties and of the criminal underworld where illegal environment and plenty of money provide the opportunities for criminals to commit their crimes. It includes gambling, smuggling, drugs, prostitution, money laundering, and all other illegal stuff.