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As of right now, not one so far. But I’m afraid racial tension between Asian-American and police could happen in the future due to some factors. Before I write some explanation I like to praise both Jon Mixon and Collin Spears for their wonderful thoughts and insights into this. So here’s my thought and analysis:Asian-Americans have faced racial profiling from police and the US government:In 2001, there was an incident of racial profiling against Asian-Americans in Seattle, Washington:Police stop of Asian Americans is called case of race profilingThere were also 2 incidents of Asian-American (both unarmed) being gunned down by police officers:Fong Lee's family angered by verdictLa Habra Settles Suit by Family of Michael Cho, Victim of Brutality or Justified Police ShootingBut the biggest racial profiling was not from the Police, but the US government, I’m not going to explain that detail, the articles will explain it for you:Racial Profiling: Doing Science While Asian AmericanWhy Does the FBI Keep Arresting Asian-American Scientists? | VICE NewsIs racial bias to blame for the high number of Asian Americans charged with espionage?So yes, I’m worried that the racial profiling of any Chinese or Chinese Americans that work for scientific or any industrial sector may cause law enforcement to not only racially profile this Chinese-American person, but I’m scared it may lead to maybe 1 or 2 police incidents involving brutalizing (or even shooting) a law-abiding Chinese-American thinking that “all Chinese are spies for big bad China and can’t be trusted”.I read an interesting article online and I think it’s interesting for anyone on this Quora thread to read:So, I Ask You, What If Trayvon Martin Was Asian?and I want to quote this from the article:But the greatest danger of anti-Asian stereotyping, whether it is “positive” or not, is that it continues to hold Asian Americans separate from other people. And this makes us vulnerable to the flip side of the myth of Asian exceptionalism: the idea of Asian Americans as a threat to “American” jobs. It was this kind of stereotyping that led to the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man who was beaten to death by displaced auto workers in 1982 during the U.S. vs. Japan auto wars because he was mistakenly perceived to be Japanese. And, BTW, neither assailant ever did any jail time.And today, as China’s rise as an economic superpower inspires anxiety, even hatred, of the Chinese, the specter of more Vincent Chin’s ought to get us wondering, is it ever a good thing to be used, no matter what the pay off?I agreed with the bold part. But it’s not only China’s rise that may cause anti-Asian sentiment/yellow peril in the US. South Korea could probably fuel more anti-Asian sentiment in the US and amongst police/law enforcement that used racial profiling. Why?Well there’s a thing called the Hallyu or the Korean Wave. The popularity of K-dramas (or Korean TV series) and K-pop (Korean pop music) in the US and outside of Asia has gotten a lot of attention from US mainstream media, ranging from Billboard adding a column for it to Itunes US adding a genre for it. K-pop has been winning audiences in the US beyond Asian-Americans demographic, which include white, latinos/hispanics, and African-Americans:K-pop: Girls' Generation, others enter American pop consciousnessProof That Kpop Isn’t Just For KoreansThe K-Pop ExplosionTo quote the Grammy article:Christine Ha, a reporter for Los Angeles' The Korea Times, presenters of the annual Korean Music Festival, says the festival now attracts approximately 30 percent non-Koreans."We noticed [the growth in audience diversity at the Hollywood Bowl shows] about two or three years ago," says Ha. "It includes the Hispanic community, the Chinese community [and] other Americans … We always sell out."The sizable Korean-American population in cities such as Los Angeles is certainly helping to fuel the popularity of K-pop in the United States, but the stateside K-pop audience stretches beyond Asian-American demographics."When we performed in Los Angeles, New York and Paris, we were shocked and surprised to see that the majority of our fans were non-Asian," says Sunny of Girls' Generation. "That is when we realized how big and influential K-pop was [becoming] around the world."There are people in the US that think K-pop would become a big thing in the US. And there was something I read about how Korea’s Hallyu could threaten American pop culture abroad and probably in the US:‘Korea Is Only Asian Country to Compete with Hollywood’s Cultural Hegemony’A Korean Hallyu Threatens American Cultural Dominance — Pacific StandardSo this would cause a new yellow peril in the US because of Korean pop culture winning audiences beyond Asian-Americans and because the songs in K-pop aren’t in English, a lot of Americans that aren’t familiar with the language may feel “threatened” by it’s popularity and presence. Because of the popularity of K-pop, it’s causing “yellow fever” and “Asian fetish” amongst non-Asian girls.So the idea of a rise in Asian-American male and a white girl having interracial relationship being linked to K-pop and other aspect of Korean pop culture in the US may cause “concern” and xenophobia amongst some white-Americans thinking that K-pop are making white girls not having relationship with men of their own race, and thus causing xenophobia amongst white Americans that don’t like Asian-Americans. That means any white-American police officers that do racial profiling and carry this mindset would target any Asian-Americans and this end up with an Asian-American being beaten or shot to death, like let me give you this fictional scenario I came up:*A white police officer saw a 20 something year old blue-eyed, blonde hair Caucasian girl and a 20-something year old person of East Asian decent holding hands and they kissed in public, and the couple enter the car and drive down somewhere. The police officer follow the Asian man and the white girl couple’s car, and the officer had the couple’s car pulled over and this is how it will played out*:White Police officer: Licence and registration, please.Asian male (on the driver side): *handed over licence and registration* So what’s the problem, officer?White Police officer: Sir, step out of the car.Asian male: *open the door and step out of the car* So what did I do?White police officer: hands on the roof of the car, sir.Asian male: *putting hands on the roof* what the hell’s going on?*white police officer put handcuff on Asian male and take out his baton*White police officer: You’re under arrest for dating a white girl and contributing to the white genocide. *white police officer hit the Asian male in the leg, Asian male yell in pain from being hit*White girl (sitting on the passenger side): *saw what happened and reacted in shock, open the door to step out* What the hell are you doing to him?White police officer: Young lady, Stay in the goddamn car!!! *look back to Asian male* it’s because of you fu**in g**ks and your fu**ing K-pop, you’re making white girls develop a thing for Asian man. No white girls want to date white man all because of K-pop. They prefer small d**ks over the superior big white men d**ks, no you g**ks and your pop culture are brainwashing all white girls into liking Asian man.White police officer: *grab the Asian male by his hair, and look at the white girl and asking her* What do you like about this g**k? His pretty face, his inferior small penis? What you have bad experiences with white penises? I bet you’re a fan of K-pop, aren’t you? I bet you f**king do, that’s why he’s your boyfriend, right? This g**k is your boyfriend, *raise voice at the white girl* Is he your boyfriend because you like K-pop. He looks like a K-pop idol doesn’t he?White girl: *scared from the terror the white police officer has inflicted on her and her Asian boyfriend*White police officer: Well you know what, I’m going to make sure he’ll never get you pregnant with a half-breed babies. I’m going to f**k up this g**k’s pretty face so you’ll never date him again.*white police officer proceed to beat up Asian male’s face using a baton*And that is one scenario how racial tension between Asian-Americans and police officer can turn out.But this isn’t the only scenario, I fear this worse-case scenario:The rise of Buddhism extremist terror in Asia and it’s implication on the global security and how this can lead to more racial tension between Asian-Americans and police:Before I can continue, I recommend you read what I wrote regarding this:Michael Do's answer to Why do I only see (reports of) Muslim terrorists killing people, but not Buddhist terrorists?Michael Do's answer to Is Buddhism a violent religion? When you see a Buddhist monk, wearing orange robes, rolling his prayer beads, about to board your plane, does it ever cross your mind that he might be a terrorist?Now, there has been a rise of Buddhist extremists in Asia and there are concern from global security expert that Buddhist terrorism could be the new wave of global terrorism after Islamic/jihadist terror. They haven’t developed a anti-US/anti-west rhetoric yet, but I’m still concern about it. If these extremists called for “death to America” and called for terror campaign against the US and the western world, this will put a lot of Asian-Americans regardless of what religion they are in danger of not only hate crime, but also victim of racial profiling and police brutality. If a Buddhist terror was to happen on US soil, the backlash against Buddhism and Asian-Americans in general will be significant, and this can lead to law enforcement increase racial profiling on Asian Americans regardless of what religion they are. I mean look at the map of where Buddhism is practice in all of Asia:So, this will lead to a perceived stereotype (and that will spread to racial profiling done by police):Asians (or anyone with a Asian face)=BuddhismBuddhism=terrorists/terrortherefore:Asians (or anyone with Asian face)=terroristsSo yes, that is a recipe for racial tension between Asian-Americans and law enforcement in the US if this was to happen in the future. It can lead to Police brutalizing Asian and shooting of unarmed Asian-Americans if that was to happen. I think Asian-American in police/law enforcement would not even be trusted by non-Asian law enforcement peers because of this perceived stereotype and worried about a Nidal Hassan style terror shooting where a Asian-American police officer commit mass shooting against fellow police officers because of his Buddhist religion could happen. I mean that’s what happen after 9/11, Muslim Americans face discrimination and racial profiling. Also Arab American that are christian, and Sikhs face the same discrimination as a by-product of Islamophobia that’s been growing in the US. So a Buddhist terror can cause this same effect. It’s not only Buddhist, and Asian-Americans that practice Christianity that face these discrimination from the American public and Law enforcement. Anyone that isn’t Asian, but look “Asian” may face this discrimination just because of his outlook and not his heritage (remember, anyone that look Asians means he/she could be a Buddhist terrorists). I mean look at this:Michael Do's answer to Do you know any Europeans who look like East Asian or slightly East Asian, but who are not? If so, what are your thoughts?I mean look at Ezra Miller and Miranda Cosgrove above. They don’t have any trace of Asian heritage, but they can be mistaken for being half-Asian just because of their “Asian” facial characteristic, so they can be mistakenly racially profiled by the police just because of their “Asian”-like outlook. I mean you can’t tell if they’re Asian or not just from looking at their faces compared to:Chloe Bennet (Daisy “Skye”/”Quake” Johnson in Agents of SHIELD), who is half Chinese:Maggie Q, who is half-Vietnamese:Vanessa Anne Hudgens, has Fillipino and Chinese ancestry:I mean can you figure out which one of these 2 males in these pictures are Asians:So Law enforcement that practice racial profiling and target Asian-Americans may accidentally go after a white person who may look “Asian” and this can lead to police brutalize (or even shooting) those “Asian”-looking caucasian/European American like Miranda Cosgrove and Ezra Miller just because of their face/outlook that resemble East Asians. I’ve met and seen Latinos/Hispanics that can look and pass as Southeast Asians ( because of their dark skin, and “Asian” outlook, ie: Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians, Fillipinos) and they can also be targeted by law enforcement that do racial profiling of Asian-Americans just because they can be mistaken for Southeast Asians. This will lead to not only tension between Asian-Americans, but a new tension with Hispanics/Latinos because of the by-product of law enforcement doing racial profiling on Asian-Americans if Buddhist terror ever happened on US soil. A lot of “Asian” looking white person that don’t have any traces of Asian heritage would be too scared to contact police because of the perceived stereotype that “Asian faces=buddhists=terrorists” mindset is being used in racial profiling of Asian-Americans. That’s why I’m scared for both Korean pop culture in the US, and the rise of Buddhist terror extremist in Asia (which I hope does not spread outside of Asia). Because this can lead to a new “yellow peril” in USA which can also lead to a rise in police racial profiling of Asian-Americans. We’ve already seen this happening to Muslim-Americans after 9/11. This can end up with law-abiding Asian-Americans being brutalize (or even being shot at) by law enforcement just because of a perceived xenophobia about “Asian pop culture are threatening American pop culture” and “Asians are Buddhists, therefore treat them like terrorists” mindset.So as of now, there’s no racial tension between Asian-Americans and law enforcement despite isolated incidents, but it may become the new “black lives matter” in the future. So I’m very concerned about my future as an Asian-Americans.