Thank you Inspector for providing a very vivid account of what it was like for Chinese immigrants like yourself living in NYC in the 1970’s. I can attest to the accuracy of your accounts because we NYPD detectives witnessed all of what you experienced. They were very trying times as Chinatown with the large influx of new immigrants from Hong Kong was overwhelmed. The birth of the gangs were the result. The rest is history. I am sorry we never met and thank you for continuing what we started in the effort to serve and protect.
We need a book on over a century of anti chinese murders and include murders committed by chinese bcuz black is now trying to get guilt ridden white woke to PUNISH chinese for black strangers killing and raping us reported in the press. White press already protects black perps by not identifying them as black. ua-cam.com/video/6M41sDA7640/v-deo.htmlsi=UT-Mbgw6mUMhvwy7 ua-cam.com/video/Wtt9UMWHKpk/v-deo.htmlsi=JlO6akNaJZTG1Sxi ua-cam.com/video/m_QGYzh5A58/v-deo.htmlsi=eyPE6yaWhGUrMxuZ
The timing of black nazis fabricating JUSTIFICATION for all these hate crimes demands a response ASAP. you can access the police reports and autopsy reports. The FIRST chinese delivery boy LIQUIDATED by strangers was in New York city. PLEASE publish everything. Don't u think jewish people needed veidlinger's in the midst of civilization BEFORE the holocaust? PLEASE publish and interview and head off this very conniving movement.
when i was young. i opened a restaurant in chinatown, new york, and it was always open until 4 am in the middle night ,i was always suffering from gangs; officer lau is enthusiastic about helping the chinese community, thank you very much.
Kudos to Mike Lau! He worked his way up the ranks and became Deputy Inspector. He gave back to his community and always remembers those less fortunate than him. Excited to watch more of these stories. Thank you!!!
More interviews from these cops. They are an inspiration to a lot of us Asian Americans who grew up in the US that wanted to become an LEO. It's always Inspiring to hear and see guys who look like us that became the good guy.
these stories were really cool, especially hearing it from Mike Lau’s perspective~ glad to be able hear from someone so professional and inspirational! thank you for protecting our community 😎
As an immigrant myself, I saw the impact that Mike Lau had on Chinatown. Back then, there were a lot of gangs and crimes that plagued the city. Seeing this video brought back a lot of good and bad memories. Thank you for your service Mike.
Thanks Inspector Lau for sharing his story and became one of our protectors. That really reminded me when I tried to register for one summer school in Chinatown. It really scared me while I’m on line waiting to register saw some of the gangsters on line. Yes, as an immigrant, we didn’t deserve this fear to walk on the street or doing our daily routine.
It is very impressive of how your determination to become a police officer at such a young age had turned out to be a dream come true. And your dedication to serving and protecting our community is truly admirable 👏👏👏.
It's crazy so many of us that grew up in NYC during this time had the same experiences. I was telling my kids recently about the roaches and mice when the lights went out when i was growing, our whole kitchen was full of glue and mice traps, lol. I remember my mom getting robbed also when I was a kid, that was really traumatic at the time. Also was on the job for a bit for the same reason as DI Lau. And 'The Wire' is the one of the greatest show of all time, you definitely should check it out Mike. Cracked me up when they were doing COMPSTAT in an episode.
I met Mike Lau many years ago when I was uniformed with the CT Police Department. Mike was very professional and he impressed me more than any other NYPD guys, great to see him again and I am glad to see he achieved to the rank of Deputy Inspector!!
Man good to see Mike Lau…..we went to the same junior high school and HS back then…..JHS 65 and Brooklyn Tech We weren’t friends but knew of each other……good guy and happy he made a difference in Chinatown
Great childhood story and very inspiring!Thanks for being a great police officer to make the community better. Looking forward to hear more stories 👍👍👍
Same thing happen to my mom in HK. She got robbed in an elevator with me coming home. It’s a traumatic experience I live with til this day. Thanks guys for sharing these stories
They don't want Chinese to get nycha. They def aren't doing it to non chinese. Nycha apartments are huge and non Chinese put on airs that they get Smith houses or bland houses bcuz those are nicer neighborhoods developed by the chinese but they still abuse the chinese sadistically demanding that chinese drivers pick up and drop off at a particular place where it is illegal for a car to do a pickup so the camera will send him a ticket. The spite lives on. And this a black lady not a thug. The spite pervades the city covered up with warm smiles.
Another cop who worked at 1PP also witnessed his mom being mugged in NYCHA. it's outrageous that Chinese get so few nycha and usually not in chinese neighborhoods.
Awesome interview and great story from Deputy Inspector Mike Lau. He had a reputation in the community and all over the newspapers as the encyclopedia of gang intelligence and superhero to businesses and the community in both Chinatown and Flushing. His story and career in the NYPD is an inspiration, coming to the US with nothing and spending his career dedicated to protecting the communities. More interviews please as this mix of stories from both the gangs and police officers from different ranks is really similar to “The Wire” with prospectives from all sides.
Born in 97 but our stories growing up were so similar. Parents came here in 96, 4 of us sleeping in a 1 bedroom apt on mott street Got lucky and moved to the LES project Faced discrimination but not as tramuatizing Got harassed in the elevator with my mom and sister Got sucker punched by a kid downstairs my building My dad got his ebike stolen while it was chained up to the fence.
Cant wait for the next one. Great stories of the motivation of joining the force. What were parent’s reaction when you joined the force? Heard it was looked down upon joining police or military but could not get a specific answer
Horrifying stories of witnessing a parent being victimized and not being able to protect them. I’m glad you guys became police and put some of these perps behind bars.
Tch. My mom gave more than 68 degrees for 30 years including to the killers in apt 4b who collaborated with the other tenants to hurt my mom. Chan wing yeungs sister called in the fines BOTH times that the boiler went down. She didn't even live there. Most of them didn't. They just kept those units to torture mom. Aafe Helen fang whose brother smacked me when I walked past even said mom kept a good building. Everybody said mom kept a clean building including the basement but they still sabotaged the building now they probably own shares in it as a reward for helping the developer ruin mom. No other building un chinatown got sabotaged this bad including by corrupt nyc govt.
The point about Asian gangsters actually being the ones who only targeted Asians really stuck out to me. It’s easy for a gangster to feel like they’re being racially targeted, but somehow they don’t make the connection to the harm they’re inflicting on their communities.
Great stories! Thank you for sharing! One thing I don't understand is that why the asian gangs always just only fight with each other, but seems never mess with other racial group like italian and irish? Hope to hear more infomation about that in the future.
Where did you get that information from? During our era, those who brought trouble to the Asian gangsters paid with their life. It’s mentioned in our previous videos about guys who did time for killing troublemakers from other racial groups. Those were the ones who got caught. Plenty of cold cases back then that the police did not link it to an Asian. They think it’s Black on Black or White on White. You must not have lived in NYC during the 80’s.
I agree that the Tong is the real power behind the gang. A gang without Tong is just a bunch of kids running the street. With the Tong, it became an organized family.
Sandy lam was John lam partner who co owned 185 canal Street at the time there was NO vhs tape in security vcr at time of murder of my dad. Bill lam brother in law of John lam is now the manager of 185 canal st so u can say nyc govt stole 117 mott street to dads real murderers and now has leased the East bway mall to bill lam who has agreed to unionize the future restaurant with the group that picketed eastbank heir when John lam is a partner in eastbank and took jin fong to his building after jin fong closed in the eastbank building. Taiwan taught sina loa to cook fentanyl after china banned it and joe Rogan saw the original episode of national geographic where the chemist told marianna van zeller and he still says its china after the episode was pulled and edited out that smoking gun. Me and dad watched triad leaders bow to the taiwan govt secretary in 1990 months before they murdered dad to let him know they were killing him for what he said to the fbi in the initial interview. That's what was NOT redacted. Dad said he didn't want anything to do with his bakery landlord bcuz taiwan controlled it and the gang. This is after the village voice article that dad had read. But on leong didn't kill the village voice reporter. They killed the guy who read the article. The guy who taught himself to read with a bilingual dictionary. Congratulations on NOT fighting the drug war bcuz taiwan will rule the cooliez for white factories after the chicoms are removed. who cares if usa soldiers die to make that happen as long as white elites stay rich. Fbi could have taken tong real estate like preet bharara took 32 east Broadway.
On The Left Coast, in San Francisco Chinatown, we had public housing projects. 平園 . Just like the highrise public housing projects on The East Coast. Let me tell you that the ghetto wasn't any better when it was a Chinese ghetto. If Uncle Mike ever communicates with SFPD Gang Task Force guys, they should all have colorful stories of what happened in "The Pings". My most vivid memory still haunts me. August 23, 1978, Julia Wong, a 19-year old resident of North Ping Yuen, was raped and murdered. The killer threw Wong off a balcony to the courtyard below, but she survived, so he dragged her back up and threw her off again.
HIs account of the kitchen bathtub and roaches are so relatable to all who went through that. The apartme would be covered with wall paper and beneath it are all roaches. You can just press the wall paper and kill severals. It was horrible but it will serve as a memory.
This channel should interview all the families of the murdered Chinese delivery workers AND interview big apple nail salon about what exactly was said by Ms medley's granddaughter AND host their security video. Do it!
my view on the intro survey. which intro to be used is irrelevant. Content of the video is important. .content is the king. Just keep the intro short. good luck!
Would you guys be able to find a Cantonese speaking FBI agent named Peter Lee who had a chance to play a role/participate in Sister Ping's case? idk if they are still around.
Thank you Inspector for providing a very vivid account of what it was like for Chinese immigrants like yourself living in NYC in the 1970’s. I can attest to the accuracy of your accounts because we NYPD detectives witnessed all of what you experienced. They were very trying times as Chinatown with the large influx of new immigrants from Hong Kong was overwhelmed. The birth of the gangs were the result. The rest is history. I am sorry we never met and thank you for continuing what we started in the effort to serve and protect.
We need a book on over a century of anti chinese murders and include murders committed by chinese bcuz black is now trying to get guilt ridden white woke to PUNISH chinese for black strangers killing and raping us reported in the press. White press already protects black perps by not identifying them as black.
ua-cam.com/video/6M41sDA7640/v-deo.htmlsi=UT-Mbgw6mUMhvwy7
ua-cam.com/video/Wtt9UMWHKpk/v-deo.htmlsi=JlO6akNaJZTG1Sxi
ua-cam.com/video/m_QGYzh5A58/v-deo.htmlsi=eyPE6yaWhGUrMxuZ
The timing of black nazis fabricating JUSTIFICATION for all these hate crimes demands a response ASAP.
you can access the police reports and autopsy reports. The FIRST chinese delivery boy LIQUIDATED by strangers was in New York city. PLEASE publish everything.
Don't u think jewish people needed veidlinger's in the midst of civilization BEFORE the holocaust?
PLEASE publish and interview and head off this very conniving movement.
when i was young. i opened a restaurant in chinatown, new york, and it was always open until 4 am in the middle night ,i was always suffering from gangs; officer lau is enthusiastic about helping the chinese community, thank you very much.
Great insights and story. Truly inspirational!!!!
Great story!👍👍👍please share more🌺🌺❤️❤️thanks
Kudos to Mike Lau! He worked his way up the ranks and became Deputy Inspector. He gave back to his community and always remembers those less fortunate than him. Excited to watch more of these stories. Thank you!!!
More interviews from these cops. They are an inspiration to a lot of us Asian Americans who grew up in the US that wanted to become an LEO. It's always Inspiring to hear and see guys who look like us that became the good guy.
these stories were really cool, especially hearing it from Mike Lau’s perspective~ glad to be able hear from someone so professional and inspirational! thank you for protecting our community 😎
Excited for the series, thank you for sharing your experiences🫡
As an immigrant myself, I saw the impact that Mike Lau had on Chinatown. Back then, there were a lot of gangs and crimes that plagued the city. Seeing this video brought back a lot of good and bad memories. Thank you for your service Mike.
Thank you Michael for bringing attention to these stories. Great episode!
Thanks Inspector Lau for sharing his story and became one of our protectors. That really reminded me when I tried to register for one summer school in Chinatown. It really scared me while I’m on line waiting to register saw some of the gangsters on line. Yes, as an immigrant, we didn’t deserve this fear to walk on the street or doing our daily routine.
Michael lau was a good cop, literally told me to stop my shit and go back to college..
great stories! thank you for sharing your experiences! you are the pride of the chinese community!
It is very impressive of how your determination to become a police officer at such a young age had turned out to be a dream come true. And your dedication to serving and protecting our community is truly admirable 👏👏👏.
I can't imagine that this is a real story in our real life, like a legend in a movie, looking forward to the next episode
It's crazy so many of us that grew up in NYC during this time had the same experiences. I was telling my kids recently about the roaches and mice when the lights went out when i was growing, our whole kitchen was full of glue and mice traps, lol. I remember my mom getting robbed also when I was a kid, that was really traumatic at the time. Also was on the job for a bit for the same reason as DI Lau. And 'The Wire' is the one of the greatest show of all time, you definitely should check it out Mike. Cracked me up when they were doing COMPSTAT in an episode.
Great to hear your stories, Deputy Inspector Lau. We need a part 2 ASAP
I met Mike Lau many years ago when I was uniformed with the CT Police Department.
Mike was very professional and he impressed me more than any other NYPD guys, great to see him again and I am glad to see he achieved to the rank of Deputy Inspector!!
Being Friends with Inspector Lau for so many years never knew the reason why he join the force. Thank you for your service.
so cool🙌🏼 I’d love to hear more of his stories🔥
Really enjoying this series!
Man good to see Mike Lau…..we went to the same junior high school and HS back then…..JHS 65 and Brooklyn Tech
We weren’t friends but knew of each other……good guy and happy he made a difference in Chinatown
Great childhood story and very inspiring!Thanks for being a great police officer to make the community better. Looking forward to hear more stories 👍👍👍
DI Mike Lau every good thing you do makes a huge difference in someone’s life !
Great interview! Go for book/movie next !! Thanks for sharing this legacy with our younger generation
Same thing happen to my mom in HK. She got robbed in an elevator with me coming home. It’s a traumatic experience I live with til this day.
Thanks guys for sharing these stories
They don't want Chinese to get nycha. They def aren't doing it to non chinese. Nycha apartments are huge and non Chinese put on airs that they get Smith houses or bland houses bcuz those are nicer neighborhoods developed by the chinese but they still abuse the chinese sadistically demanding that chinese drivers pick up and drop off at a particular place where it is illegal for a car to do a pickup so the camera will send him a ticket. The spite lives on. And this a black lady not a thug. The spite pervades the city covered up with warm smiles.
I'm so glad this interview was uploaded. Thank you.
Another cop who worked at 1PP also witnessed his mom being mugged in NYCHA. it's outrageous that Chinese get so few nycha and usually not in chinese neighborhoods.
That's how Batman was born at 12.
The intro is fire boss
Can't wait for part 2
Hahaha love that last-minute shout out to The Wire! Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
Awesome interview and great story from Deputy Inspector Mike Lau. He had a reputation in the community and all over the newspapers as the encyclopedia of gang intelligence and superhero to businesses and the community in both Chinatown and Flushing. His story and career in the NYPD is an inspiration, coming to the US with nothing and spending his career dedicated to protecting the communities. More interviews please as this mix of stories from both the gangs and police officers from different ranks is really similar to “The Wire” with prospectives from all sides.
Oh really. We only knew him as the beat cop. Then he seemed to have vanished.
chinatown definitely needed cops like him
This story is very exciting and inspiring. I didn’t know NYC was that scary in the 70’s.
Born in 97 but our stories growing up were so similar.
Parents came here in 96, 4 of us sleeping in a 1 bedroom apt on mott street
Got lucky and moved to the LES project
Faced discrimination but not as tramuatizing
Got harassed in the elevator with my mom and sister
Got sucker punched by a kid downstairs my building
My dad got his ebike stolen while it was chained up to the fence.
Thank you for sharing! these stories remands that we need more cops like Mike to protect our country and buy lotte.
Can’t wait for the next one
You just don't miss with these videos 🔥🔥🔥👁
Cant wait for the next one. Great stories of the motivation of joining the force. What were parent’s reaction when you joined the force? Heard it was looked down upon joining police or military but could not get a specific answer
Horrifying stories of witnessing a parent being victimized and not being able to protect them. I’m glad you guys became police and put some of these perps behind bars.
Mike can we drop the entire episode already? I officially have blue balls waiting 🤣
😂
Interesting story. Is there a Part 2?
Mike Lau has been on a single mission since 12 years old
Can totally relate. The lucky ones who “hit the lottery” get to live in public housing. At least you know you will have heat in the winter
Tch. My mom gave more than 68 degrees for 30 years including to the killers in apt 4b who collaborated with the other tenants to hurt my mom. Chan wing yeungs sister called in the fines BOTH times that the boiler went down. She didn't even live there. Most of them didn't. They just kept those units to torture mom. Aafe Helen fang whose brother smacked me when I walked past even said mom kept a good building. Everybody said mom kept a clean building including the basement but they still sabotaged the building now they probably own shares in it as a reward for helping the developer ruin mom. No other building un chinatown got sabotaged this bad including by corrupt nyc govt.
The point about Asian gangsters actually being the ones who only targeted Asians really stuck out to me. It’s easy for a gangster to feel like they’re being racially targeted, but somehow they don’t make the connection to the harm they’re inflicting on their communities.
Does THIS channel?
Great story, we lived in the same projects.
👏🏻👏🏻
Great stories! Thank you for sharing! One thing I don't understand is that why the asian gangs always just only fight with each other, but seems never mess with other racial group like italian and irish? Hope to hear more infomation about that in the future.
Where did you get that information from? During our era, those who brought trouble to the Asian gangsters paid with their life. It’s mentioned in our previous videos about guys who did time for killing troublemakers from other racial groups. Those were the ones who got caught. Plenty of cold cases back then that the police did not link it to an Asian. They think it’s Black on Black or White on White. You must not have lived in NYC during the 80’s.
Chinese American Hero 🙌🏻 🔥🔥
Michael a good sample to our Chinese community. He earned our respect to him
Did you ever get that mugger ?
The Tong elders were a big part of the problem. They supported the gangs.
They still do. This channel is covering up what they did to my father and lies about putting my fathers restaurant out of business.
I agree that the Tong is the real power behind the gang. A gang without Tong is just a bunch of kids running the street. With the Tong, it became an organized family.
Sandy lam was John lam partner who co owned 185 canal Street at the time there was NO vhs tape in security vcr at time of murder of my dad. Bill lam brother in law of John lam is now the manager of 185 canal st so u can say nyc govt stole 117 mott street to dads real murderers and now has leased the East bway mall to bill lam who has agreed to unionize the future restaurant with the group that picketed eastbank heir when John lam is a partner in eastbank and took jin fong to his building after jin fong closed in the eastbank building.
Taiwan taught sina loa to cook fentanyl after china banned it and joe Rogan saw the original episode of national geographic where the chemist told marianna van zeller and he still says its china after the episode was pulled and edited out that smoking gun.
Me and dad watched triad leaders bow to the taiwan govt secretary in 1990 months before they murdered dad to let him know they were killing him for what he said to the fbi in the initial interview. That's what was NOT redacted. Dad said he didn't want anything to do with his bakery landlord bcuz taiwan controlled it and the gang. This is after the village voice article that dad had read. But on leong didn't kill the village voice reporter. They killed the guy who read the article. The guy who taught himself to read with a bilingual dictionary.
Congratulations on NOT fighting the drug war bcuz taiwan will rule the cooliez for white factories after the chicoms are removed. who cares if usa soldiers die to make that happen as long as white elites stay rich.
Fbi could have taken tong real estate like preet bharara took 32 east Broadway.
On The Left Coast, in San Francisco Chinatown, we had public housing projects. 平園 . Just like the highrise public housing projects on The East Coast. Let me tell you that the ghetto wasn't any better when it was a Chinese ghetto. If Uncle Mike ever communicates with SFPD Gang Task Force guys, they should all have colorful stories of what happened in "The Pings". My most vivid memory still haunts me. August 23, 1978, Julia Wong, a 19-year old resident of North Ping Yuen, was raped and murdered. The killer threw Wong off a balcony to the courtyard below, but she survived, so he dragged her back up and threw her off again.
By a Chinese? And that didn't end the gangs?
HIs account of the kitchen bathtub and roaches are so relatable to all who went through that. The apartme would be covered with wall paper and beneath it are all roaches. You can just press the wall paper and kill severals. It was horrible but it will serve as a memory.
Why he retired when he was 40 something years old? What job he is doing now?
This channel should interview all the families of the murdered Chinese delivery workers AND interview big apple nail salon about what exactly was said by Ms medley's granddaughter AND host their security video. Do it!
the chinatown history that almost gone with the wind.
He was around when chinatown was popping
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
my view on the intro survey. which intro to be used is irrelevant. Content of the video is important. .content is the king. Just keep the intro short. good luck!
Let the dude talk lmao 😅
Did Mike lau end up catching that robber later down the line when he became a. Cop?
Would you guys be able to find a Cantonese speaking FBI agent named Peter Lee who had a chance to play a role/participate in Sister Ping's case? idk if they are still around.
What happen to the black eagles?
🐲🔴💰💯
Nice intro
The production budget must be through the roof with that new intro. There won't be any money left for a bucket of chicken.
Jets lost that game because of Zach Wilson he had a horrible game
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