In the aftermath of the shootings in Virginia, many Korean and Asian American community leaders and student groups expressed sorrow and concern and the hope that the tragedy will not repeat the scapegoating Korean and Asian Americans saw after the 1992 Rodney King police beating.

Last Monday, Cho Seung-Hui, a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shot and killed 32 people in the largest school shooting in American history.

The 23-year-old English major was a Korean American who immigrated to Detroit, Michigan in 1992 from Seoul, South Korea.

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