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Congresswoman Judy Chu Addresses Racial Profiling at Hearing

Chu criticized the use of racial profiling by police and others to target minorities.

Racial profiling was the subject of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, prompting Rep. Judy Chu, D-El Monte to testify that the practice results in harrassment, violence and fear.

Chu spoke about the Asian experience and beyond at the "Ending Racial Profiling in America" hearing, citing the injustices done to minorities who have been made to feel "unequal" and "Un-American" both in the past and present day.

The hearing comes nearly a month after a case of possible racial profiling led to the death of unarmed black youth, Kendric McDade, 19, who was shot to death by police officers in Pasadena. Chu called for a further investigation.

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Earlier this year, she also expressed outrage over a Superbowl ad featuring a Chinese woman speaking broken English (see attached video). 

As the first Chinese American elected to Congress and the Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Chu shared her insight on how the practice leads to unfair treatment of certain groups of people by their own government. 

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Spied on, targeted for airport searches and even put into internment camps, as Japanese Americans were during World War II, are a few examples of the many abuses faced by some in America. (Read more here...)

Last year, Chu in the proposed 27th Congressional District, which includes Glendora

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