Some community leaders in Chinatown are skeptical about secret police station charge

On Monday, federal prosecutors charged two New Yorkers with operating a secret police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and using it to track down at least one Chinese dissident living in the United States. But some Chinatown community leaders are skeptical of that allegation. They say the organization that prosecutors say housed the secret police station is similar to many others in Chinatown – and focused on supporting Chinese immigrants – not spying on them. April Xu is a reporter for the nonprofit news site DocumentedNY.com, which covers New York’s immigrant communities. She spent Tuesday in Manhattan’s Chinatown speaking to community members about recent events.