The Author Believes the Police Questioned Him and Carlos About

Multiple Choice

The author believes the police questioned him and Carlos about possible gang membership because_____.

A) the police thought the white men who attacked Carlos and his friend might have been in a gang
B) the police saw gang insignias tattooed on the boys' bodies
C) among the hundreds of thousands of Filipino youth living in Palo Alto at that time many thousands were known to be in gangs
D) the police made a racist assumption that young Asian men are likely to be gang members