A Southeast Asian immigrant charged with killing six white hunters in Wisconsin comes from an insular Minnesota community of 27,000 Laotians known as Hmongs that has often clashed with the surrounding St. Paul population.
That, along with the defendant’s allegations that the hunters used racial slurs when they ordered him off their property in the Nov. 20 hunting incident, could provide possible grounds for a “cultural defense” strategy, defense lawyers say.
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