Born To Kill: The Vietnamese Refugee Gang that Terrorized the US

The Underworld Podcast

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1980's, a new gang threw asian immigrant communities across America into chaotic spurts of violence. They were brutal, they were vicious, and they weren't going to play by any of the rules set by any of the established organized crime players. Born To Kill emerged from Vietnam's Lost Generation: child war refugees, often times orphans, who had been left to fend for themselves without any support or protection. Led by the charismatic and cult-leader like David Thai, the gang would wreak havoc across the country, dropping bodies and terrorizing people at a level previously unseen in Chinatown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League.
0:09.0	And the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.1	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're
0:18.0	here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:25.0	Barclay's here for the land of football.
0:30.0	July 28, 1990, somewhere out in the swamps of Jersey, Linden actually at the Rosedale Cemetery.
0:37.0	The scene is like something out of a John Wu movie or a Hong Kong action film.
0:41.0	A bunch of tough-looking Vietnamese teenagers all dressed in
0:44.8	black linen pants, black linen jackets, and a white shirt with black shatens with
0:49.8	wild spiky haircuts and visible tattoos are there to watch a coffin get lowered into the ground.
0:55.8	The man being buried is Vin Vu, a much beloved lieutenant in the upstart Vietnamese street
1:00.5	gang known as Born to Kill, that's been running wild all over New York
1:04.2	city's Chinatown and terrorizing Asian immigrant communities all over the
1:08.0	country. Voos the second in command nicknamed Amigo because everyone got
1:12.3	along with him. He was only 21 years old. He got popped a few nights earlier leaving a massage parlor the gang ran in Chinatown.
1:19.0	His murder was a message from the more established organized crime in Manhattan's Chinatown, the age old tongs and their story. The age-old
1:24.4	old tongs and their street-level enforcer gangs like the Go Shadows.
1:27.8	BTK has been breaking all the rules, robbing gambling dens and extorting shops
1:32.3	under the other gang's protection,
1:34.0	killing people in broad daylight, messing up the natural order of things.
1:38.0	The others had had enough of BTK.
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