Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871

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On October 24, 1871, a Los Angeles mob of several hundred dragged nineteen Chinese men from the Coronel Building and lynched them from wagon tongues and awning beams. Every murder conviction was later overturned on a technicality.

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