REMEMBERING YANG SONG: WIFE
REMEMBERING YANG SONG: WIFE,
DAUGHTER, NEW YORKER, AND VICTIM OF CRIMINALIZATION
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v learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet02-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com + Course Hero X C My Orders | Chegg. Bb Reading – 2022 Fall… Bb https://learn-us-eas… kapil sharma show I… Paraphrasing Tool -.. C Editor – Chegg Writi. M Inbox (1,381) – prati.. REMEMBERING YANG SONG: WIFE, Email Address* DAUGHTER, NEW YORKER, AND VICTIM OF CRIMINALIZATION First Name* November 30, 2019 ANG SONG Last Name Two years ago, during a raid on the Flushing massage parlor where she worked, 38-year-old Yang Song jumped from the State* building’s third-floor window, rather than face the vice officers DecrimNow Choose one… who were running up the stairs. Yang died at New York- #justiceForYangSong MMIGRANT AND SEX WORKER KILLED BY THE Presbyterian Hospital the following morning. CAPLINED OR CHARGED WITHS HAVE BEEN Sign me up! Yang Song had been arrested months before on prostitution DSW’s national monthly e-newsletter charges. Her case was referred to the Queens Human Trafficking Marchers honor Yang Song at a vigil in 2018 and call for decriminalizetion to highlights the most important Intervention Courts (HTICs), and a court date had been prevent more harm. (Photo: Emma developments relating to our efforts scheduled for December. Hyphen magazine’s interview with to end the prohibition of prostitution Yang’s family following her death confirmed that she had been Whitford/Hyphen magazine, 2019) and improve the policies relating to sexually assaulted while in police custody. other forms of sex work in the United States. If you are in New Hampshire, An officer had confiscated her money and her phone and then New York, Rhode Island, or Vermont, demanded sexual services. An immigrant working in a you will receive occasional legislative criminalized industry, Yang felt powerless to refuse. She bravely updates for that state (in addition to reported the assault to the local precinct and helped them DSW’s monthly, national e- identify the police assailant. newsletter) This victory was short-lived and costly for Yang. Following the Yang Song’s family traveled to New York the month after her death in the hopes report, vice agents began to harass and threaten her. They of gaining insight into the pressured Yang to become an undercover informant, to turn in circumstances surrounding her death. clients and friends. When Yang refused, law enforcement Yang’s mother, Yumai Shi, and brother,
v < learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet02-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com + Course Hero X C My Orders | Chegg. Bb Reading – 2022 Fall.. Bb https://learn-us-eas… kapil sharma show I… Paraphrasing Tool -… C Editor – Chegg Writi. M Inbox (1,381) – prati.. circumstances surrounding her death. clients and friends. When Yang refused, law enforcement Yang’s mother, Yumai Shi, and brother, targeted her in repeated stings. With the assault in recent Hai Song, are pictured in the office of memory and a December court date scheduled, facing re-arrest the Flushing Neighborhood Watch would have meant prison time and possible deportation, not to Team’s office on 40th Road, across the mention the prospect of another attack, or worse. street from where Yang fell. (Photo: Scott Heins/The Appeal, 2019) Yang’s experience at the hands of law enforcement is an illustration of why sex workers are unlikely-and in some cases unable-to report crimes committed against them (especially by the police). Following her death, a report issued by the Queens District Attorney’s office denied any wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. The raid took place months after NYPD pledged to curb prostitution arrests. A 2017 report by the Urban Justice Center revealed that arrests of Asian-identified people for prostitution and unlicensed massages increased by 2700% from 2012 to 2016. Fully 87% of the arrests for unlicensed massages were of Asian migrant women. Tragedies like this are enabled by bad laws that systematically disenfranchise immigrants and sex workers. Police raids are traumatic and violent, treating supposed victims as criminals. Arrests do not help, saddling defendants with court fees and criminal records that further limit their ability to find another job. HTICs, established in Queens Criminal Court in 2010 and later expanded to NYC’s other four boroughs, fail to identify trafficking survivors and neglect to provide workers with the services they need, such as employment, housing, education, and healthcare. A report by the Yale School of Public Health found that courts
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