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MN: I'm gonna go back to Santa Anita Assembly Center now. There was a huge riot at the Santa Anita Assembly Center. What do you remember of the riot?

TS: They were chasin' a guy and they, I said, "What are they chasin' that guy for?" They said, "He's a Korean." Beat him up.

MN: And Koreans at that time were interpreters, is that correct?

TS: I don't know what they, he was there. He was there as an interpreter or something, and I remember a guy named Mark Kiguchi who's still around, he was one of the guys pounding on this Korean guy.

MN: I heard stories also that they threw, like, typewriters at this guy.

TS: Oh, they were throwing everything at him. They wanted to kill the guy.

MN: Did you actually witness this or did you hear it?

TS: (...) I was standing right there. I saw this guy running and all these guys chasin' him. I said, "What are you guys chasin' that guy for?" He says, "He's a Korean."

MN: And then is that afterwards where the armies, military came in?

TS: (Yes).

MN: Were you one of the kids throwing rocks at the military, army people?

TS: I may have. It's kind of vague now. I was only about twelve or thirteen years old then.

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