http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-...ers-westminster

Little Saigon protester arrested on suspicion of assault
Police say videotape shows Trong Doan assaulting Nguoi Viet Daily News reporter Jan. 31.
By DEEPA BHARATH
The Orange County Register

WESTMINSTER – Police Thursday arrested a protester who was involved in a demonstration outside Nguoi Viet Daily News, alleging that he assaulted one of the newspaper's reporters Jan. 31, officials said.

The incident was caught on video, officials said.

Trong Doan, 59, of Westminster, who is facing one misdemeanor count of assault and battery, was arrested Thursday morning in his home, said Westminster police Sgt. Dan Schoonmaker.

Schoonmaker said the newspaper had requested a meeting with police two weeks ago to share more information about the protesters' activities. The videotape that is said to show an assault surfaced during that meeting, he said.

"This incident in particular caught our attention and we decided to move forward on it," he said.

Doan is being held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Ky Ngo, another protester who was working with Doan, said he is shocked by the arrest.

"Trong is a good man," he said. "He was fighting for what he believes in."

Ngo said protesters have not broken the law during their demonstrations, which began in January. The protest started after Ngoui Viet published the photo of a foot spa painted in the colors of the red and yellow South Vietnamese flag in its lunar new year special edition. The photo accompanied a feature story about an artist who made the foot spa to honor her mother-in-law, who worked in nail salons to put her children through college.

The newspaper fired two of its top editors after an internal investigation, admitting that they had made a mistake by publishing the photo. Editors also issued a public apology, but refused to hold a public hearing, which the protesters had demanded.

Schoonmaker said that the assault occurred outside the newspaper in the 14700 block of Moran Street. The only witnesses were other protesters who have been uncooperative with police during their investigations, he said.

"Fortunately, the crime was caught on video, which has been recovered by detectives as evidence in the case," Schoonmaker said.

Police are also investigating other reported criminal activity at the paper, including a bomb threat and other threats made against newspaper employees, he said. Westminster police will forward results of the investigation to the Orange County District Attorney's Office for review, Schoonmaker said.

These bastards are the enemy of democratic values. The Viet Daily News is belongs to the private sector they can publish whatever the fu-k they want, whatever happened to freedom of the press?

Ahh mob mentality...I hope they're just passionate about anti-China as they're with the VCP. I hope to see these people at S.F on the 9th.

anyone got links to the video?

Trong Doan, 59, of Westminster... still alive, fighting and assaulting people for his believes.

Calm down, folks!!!

In America, if you intently push someone w/o his permission, or grabbing someone w/o his/her permission, it can constitute a misdemeanor assault by law. ( Unwanted bodily contact) This kind of assault is different from the violent assault familiar through the videos of polices beating on innocent bystanders, or husband beating up his wife variety I have seen sending out from VN. Assaut w/ deadly weapon, such as knife, gun or electrical baton etc, is another different kind that our VNmese police force knows so well in their daily interacting w/ the population.

Now, personally I think the group protesting infront of the Nguoi Viet should have stopped when the editor was fired for his decision to inflame the community w/ such an article. The move by Nguoi Viet resorting to suing the protester may help end the protesting itself. I don't think Nguoi Viet will press on. It probably results in a secret settlement between both sides. (90% of all legal cases in American ended in private settlement between parties........very few of them really make it to the jury trial)

What are you hoping to see?! I think you will be disappointed! (Not an entertainment likes that young master-whatever-his name-is wheeling a faked Japanese sword chasing down airport security people in Da Nang.....)

Freedom of the press has its limits. Its limit is not to inflame hatred, or example.

If a Jewish newspaper printed a Nazi symbol by some artist, claiming it is art ( entirely possible under the right of the press to print whatever they want......)The reaction from the Jewish community would be the same.

Personally, I think the artist who made that piece of so-called art (washing bowl) is on the same level w/ the guy who took a dump and called it art.

This is America, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

These 3 que extremists fukers need to be schooled and I'm glad one of them did!!!

You can compare modern abstract art with that picture, you can definitely tell the meaning of the flag in a nail bowl right away.

Yes, agree.

I only meant the artist herself, not her art. The kind of person who could conjure up such image, plus an essay to come along, is the kind of artist who takes a dump and calls it art! (By the way, there are pleinty of those so- called artists in America. They like to do it for the shock value. It's not limited to the trade of paintings and scuptures by any mean) If I was her mother-in-law, I would feel deeply ashamed to have such honor visit upon me. But again, this is America, people need to tolerate the decent and the fool alike.

By the way, I have read her answering letter to Bui Bao Truc, the man who first raised the issue. I wished she could use the same manner as the old man in her rebuttal. Unfortunately, she only reminded me of the fools in this forum in her choice of words.

Yes, arrest them all, those dangerous middle - aged protesters. Let's see them try to pull that stunt in VN, we 'd crush them and show them free speech isn't so free after all.

Why does someone born and raised in Hanoi after the war have such a deep affection for the striped flag? Thế mà vẫn còn ngang nhiên nhận mình là người Hà Nội được. Láo vừa vừa thôi.

who?

There goes the content of the so call piece of art, interpreted from the artist herself. Your interpretation is wrong, you don't have the right to be offended. These people at the protests were acting like a bunch of jackass...It has nothing to do with Hitler, Jews, vampires, Chinamen, communists, etc...

the guy with the screen name "vietnam"

Yawn........Xigon, don't you have enough fun flirting in that thread Viet girls? Did I say anything about my affection to the yellow flag? I think a woman choses to honor her mother-in-law, a S. Vietnamese, in such manner is just plain dump. But it is her right as an "artist" to do whatever she wanted. (I already commented on the "art" that she produced) It's a different matter when the editor of the largest newspaper in the community decided to pick such topic to print. One can dismiss the "artist" as being essentric. Look, no one would know about this "artist" and her "art" if Nguoi Viet has not printed the article. Therefore, the editor has to accept the consequence for his decision to print a controversal piece.

What I don't like is people like you who think everything about the yellow flag, or the people who honor it, deserves to be trashed. Even people from Hanoi have the right to question the lies spread by the government, right?! Actually, I feel kind of pity for you. Am I wasting my breath here?????? Sigh!!!!

^ lol are you mad? me flirting? when?

you need not to type such a long post because everyone here knows the truth about you

all Hanoian i know are hardcore patriot...VC style thats it
wtf?
who is this "vietnam" sob tryta fool?

In my humble opinion, there is nothing artistic about it. I'll not put her "art" in my livingroom, or my bathroom, anyway. I would feel the same way if some guy decides to paint his toilet bowl red w/ a yellow star at the bottom, and calls it his "art" in honor of someone. There are much better ways to honor someone's hard work in our culture, don't you think?

I believe the people, who continue to protest afterthe responsible editor has been fired, are not doing any good for the cause. Who knows why they continue to do that......

People should have every right to be offended by what they perceive as an act of negligence in part of the editor of the largest Vietnamese newspaper in the South California, to put such a picture in its Tet magazine. Nguoi Viet, under Mr. Do Yen who passed away a few years ago, had grown up w/ the Viet refugees community in Orange County, and had served the community well. Thing is regretable now, and I hope they will get over it.

People really don't care about the "artist" herself. She is really insignificant. The man who responsible for the Tet issue of the newspaper is the one bear the blunt of the community wrath. If Nguoi Viet thought he was right, then they never fired him, protesters or not.

Have you looked outside of your circle lately?????

Who is "everyone", honey?! (On your request, I try to make it short!)

everyone? Let me list

GenomVirues
jose_curvo
Da_Vince
Englanda
XigonCongchua
paperbearvn
trashcleaner
supernovasp
shinnasuka
...

Would someone who born and raised in Hanoi after the war and even graduated high school in Hanoi defend the US for dropping Agent Orange on Vietnam?
I remember saying something about everyone suffering in the war, something about Agent Orange. The guy with the screen name "vietnam" then defended the US for dropping the AO...they were reasonable for dropping AO, he said...He also said that industry in Vietnam had thrown lots of pollution onto our environment...according to him, that amount of pollution the commie government threw into our environment was much worse than American dropping Agent Orange...

OMG could you believe a Hanoi person would say such thing? would a Hanoi person be against the industrialization of Vietnam? would a Hanoi person defend America for dropping AO?

Interesting....so what if they think so?!

Don't put words in my mouth, baby. I like to think on my own, @$$ opposite to the one parrotting commie words like you......no offense!!!

No one needed to put AO in the jungles, unless there were enemy forces hiding in there. We all know N. Vietnamese forces and VC lived in the jungles below 17 th paralel to terrorize the lives of the S. Vietnameses who didn't want anything to do w/ them.

About the pollution in Vietnam now......Americans put AO only in the jungles, but the hurry industrialization of Vietnam w/o any plan to protect the environment is affecting the entire country, from the countryside farmers to the urbanites in big cities because we all share the source of foods and water. (Or you think you are in Saigon therefore you are immuned????) An example of the destruction of the environment is Cam Ly Fall, a beautiful place in Dalat, now became a running sewage because of bad urban planning. Guess any of those stinking water end up in your drinking water supply?

I tried to keep it short for you.

how could you forgot me ?

^ I put "dot dot dot"

anyone with a brain in Viet Chat knows he's a hard-core VNCH pretending to be a Hanoian He just lies to have credibility, "hey look, I'm from Hanoi...so I know"

Yeah.....just like you are so proud of being born and bred in HCMC.......Guess where your family was before 1975? What do you really know about the South?! Did some one already called you a retarded recently while I was away on my Spring Break???

^ lol calm down...everyone knows you're not Hanoian and everyone understands why you lie to be Hanoian...no hard feeling...people understand you ... so calm down and stay away from the personal attack

hes a harcore alright
a harcore RETARD that is

So much for the call for "calm down", commie.........

You are so cute.....What hard feeling????! There is no need for me to "calm down" because I was greatly amused by you. So far, I had seen only the personal attacks from you and your kind on anyone who don't support your bloody regime. You had called me Cambodian, Chinese, UFO, "White" Viet......to show that I don't really care/know about VN. Ignorant people like you sound like the public announcers for the bloody regime in VN, and you did a bad job at that!!!

Real political/economical progress can only come to VN when there are more young VNmeses like Nguyen Tien Trung (MS in computer sciences - forced into the army), Le Thi Cong Nhan (attorney-imprisoned), Nguyen Van Dai (attorney-imprisoned) and many others who are currently in prisons or under house arrest in Vietnam for speaking out against the VCP regime. Don't tell me they were not born and bred after the war like you, nor having no connection to the current bloody regime through their families.

Ouch......Am I spinning your head already????!

why bother to make such a long post to explain? people already know who you are by looking at your post history go ask the Viet members here whether they agree with me or not, they'll tell you

Nguyen Tien Trung was born in Saigon and went study abroad in France you SOB
he wasnt born in Hanoi

I always agree with you ConChuaXiXon.

Just give 'vietnam' and his-likes 10 more years, and they will realize their stupidity and write less.

Write an essay, but no one bothers to care.

I hope by adding me to the list won't make the list long.

No, World Industrialization has taken a toll on pollution. Pollution itself cannot just be within one country, it is linked everywhere. Industrialization in Vietnam is actually a poster child for WB where pollution is much more limited, and the effective government to limit deforestation in Vietnam (which by the way has caused mass illegal logging in Laos (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7302732.stm). With the combine industrialization everywhere, Vietnam is one of the most disaster prone country due to rising sea water. If you're just talking in short term where pollution in Vietnam has taken its toll, yes Vietnam is polluted (so is Japan during its industrialization, even now there are canals in Tokyo that are still considered toxic http://www.k-erc.pref.kanagawa.jp/en_hp/pollution/water.htm), but if you're talking about the long term, Vietnam is doomed anyway.

That's just like forcing Tiger Wood into playing basketball...retarded commies don't know how to allocate resources efficiently. What the hell is wrong with these assholes? Was Nguyen Tien Trung agianst the VCP? If yes then probably they want him staying away from the computer coz all a computer programmer needs is a computer and a compiler to change the world ^_^

Making Nguyen T Trung joining the army is one example of the policy to silent all political opposition to the VCP. Why do government officials worry so much about yound men/women like him when they have all the powers of suppression in their hands? Why a man w/ a bright future like Trung decided to speak out for democracy and accepted to go back to VN, knowing the dangers ahead, instead of remaining in Paris? I respect such a person.

Yes, by the same kind of reasoning, one can also say because there is polution in the USA, therefore it's not unusual for VN to have polution, too! ( OOOP, did I mention that while USA is at the top of the world in term of its richness, VN is at the bottom under the undefeated leadership of the bloody VCP???) The difference is in how problem is treated. I am sure the level of toxic in water of Japan's canals is still better than drinking water in VN. (Didnot your newspaper had repported cases of ozzing blacken stinking water sipped into building's water supply in Saigon. How about recently 3 national falls are recommended to be taken of the list of national scenery because of polution have ruined them?) Your appology for the regime sounds so familiar: everyone in the world is responsible for disasters in VN except the VCP, and every success in VN is credited to the glorious leadership of the VCP, alone!!!

So he was born in Saigon after '75, same as Xigon and probably you, too?! Didn't his family move South after '75 like so many others??? I heard his family has lot of connections to the VCP, too.

Since you like to curse so much, one of this day it may come bitting you in your *ss before you realize it!

How come joining the army sounds like a death penalty?

Which article in the constitution states that if you are a Computer Science major, you are free from serving the country.

Talking like you, if all people in VN become CS, then Vietnam will have no standing man to defend the nation.

Hahaha
Since when a foreign educated person has to be conscripted into the army during peace time as a regular soldier when there is such a shortage of "gray matter" in VN? Is it a good way to allocate national resources? There are pleinty of VCP's children buying their way out of military services by going oversea as students, so don't lecture me about serving the country. The VCP is hoping to isolate Trung from his friends by putting him into the army. Let's wait and see if the military discipline will break this young brave man's dedication to democracy.

How Vietnam wants to allocate her resources is up to her. When can an outsider like you nose in none of your business matter.

asean.asia can't be serious...I refuse to believe that he's that stupid...

I am serious. I am that "stupid" in your definition.

Would you like to join the join the army to defend VN islands, or volunteer to go to Tibet and help Tibetans? It's much better than talk the talk.

No, I protest your calling him "stupid".....he just doing his job being the public announcer for the bloody regime. (Who knows, he may even get paid doing so)

Thank you. Do your women job and say nice things about me in front of our government.

I wonder in your family, are the females more women than you?

Exactly, asean.asia, there's no sense in talking to these traitors. What do they know? They don't truly care about the country because they're overseas. I'm glad we have true patriots like you who are going back to VN to serve in the army to defend our our islands. You're a true shining light for the rest of us, your nobility inspires us all, unlike us who talk the talk, you actually back it up with the walk.

Hey maybe you're right...

Wrong, I am as "insider" as it gets. Just admit the regime is very worry about men/women like Trung, Dai, and Nhan. They are the new voice of VN. I wish them the best.