Shaozhuo Cui, 24, was taking pictures that morning for the Collegiate Times at the Drillfield when state police shouted, "Get down!"

Officers, who pointed two rifles at his head as he sat on the ground, handcuffed Cui, who moved to Reston with his family five years ago from Changchun, China.

It was the sort of racial profiling that African-Americans fear after every high-profile crime involving a black suspect, the kind Muslims have experienced since 9/11....

Asian students interviewed yesterday said they get along well with their fellow students and did not anticipate problems.

"To me, it doesn't matter if [the assailant] is Asian, black or white," said Brian Yi, a junior from Colonial Heights, as he dined in the student center with James Park of Fredericksburg and Elisabeth Kim of Centreville. "It's not like all Asians are good or certain races are bad...."

[Cui] apparently fit the profile of the suspected shooter -- an Asian-American in a black jacket. "He's Korean. I'm Chinese," Cui said of the student who was the shooter....

"My family is kind of angry because I was all over the place being handcuffed," he said of the media coverage of his arrest. "For cops, they have a duty to do. They're looking for an Asian guy."

He said he had received some weird looks on campus, but he wasn't sure if it was because he's Asian or because he was on Fox News.

"I just think about the losses, the lives lost. . . . Nothing can compare."

He's right, of course.

But he still deserves an apology. [Link]