How a war over weed and water led to a deadly police shooting
[Siskiyou] county has attempted to restrict access to irrigation water on the grounds that it’s being wasted on weed, which many Hmong farmers grow to eke out a living from the otherwise barren land in Mount Shasta Vista. To the Hmong, mostly first- and second-generation refugees from Southeast Asia, it’s felt like an attempt to drive them out of a conservative and majority-white county, the latest chapter in a long legacy of anti-Asian racism dating back to California’s gold rush.