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Wed Aug 19, 2009 at 11:20:01 AM EDT
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Nine months after the brutal murder of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue, New York, (which we chronicled here, here, and here) another attack is being reported from that same Long Island city. The victim of last Friday's attack said that he was attacked on Division Avenue in Patchogue by three young White men who hit him, knocked him to the ground, and robbed him while making bigoted slurs.
Sadly, the nature of the attack bears striking similarities to the hate crime committed against Marcelo Lucero, who was attacked and killed in November of 2008 by several White teenagers while walking near the train station.
The Lucero incident led to a U.S. Department of Justice investigation on hate crimes in Long Island. Authorities now say that the Lucero killing was a part of an anti-Latino crime spree that spans more than one year.
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Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 15:12:50 PM EDT
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In the wake the recent shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the murder of Dr. George Tiller, and continued attacks against immigrants, Attorney General Eric Holder has asked Congress for a tougher hate crimes bill.
"If there was ever a doubt about the need for this legislation, I think that has been pretty much done away with by the events that we've seen in our nation here in Washington, DC... I think the time is right, the time is now for the passage of this legislation," he said.
We couldn't agree more. The FBI reports that hate crimes against Latinos have risen 40% over the past four years. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the number of hate groups targeting Latinos and immigrants has increased by 54% since 2000.
These are not just statistics. People are being beaten to death simply because they are Latino. Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old immigrant, was beaten to death in July of last year by a group of teenagers in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. One witness said that they told Ramirez's friends to get out of Shenandoah, "or you're gonna to be laying effin next to him."
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 14:05:28 PM EDT
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On this day in 1982, Chinese American immigrant Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat, at his own bachelor party, by racist white auto workers in Detroit who blamed Japan for layoffs in the US auto industry. The murderers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, were convicted of manslaughter. They served no jail time, were given three years probation, fined $3,000 and ordered to pay $780 in court costs. Wayne County Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman said, "These weren't the kind of men you send to jail." On July 14, 2008, Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez was beaten to death by racist white teens shouting anti-Mexican epithets, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. The murderers, Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak, were convicted of simple assault. Two days ago, they were respectively sentenced to 6 and 7 months in county jail. Piekarsky's lawyer Frederick Fanelli said, "You would be proud to have any of these kids in your classroom, and any of them as your children."
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Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 11:55:56 AM EDT
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by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger On May 30, 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter Brisenia Flores were shot to death, purportedly by a group of far-right anti-immigrant activists who broke into the Flores home by posing as police officers. On Friday, Shawna Forde, anti-immigrant activist and Executive Director of the Minutemen American Defense, (MAD) along with accomplices Jason Eugene Bush and Albert Robert Gaxiola were arrested on two counts of first-degree murder and burglary charges related to the Flores murders.
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Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 10:29:22 AM EDT
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Cross-posted from VivirLatino I think I have had to write this over and over many times, every time there is a hate crime against a Latino pero it is worthy of repeating. Defining what makes a hate crime is a political act. The reason I write this is that I am reading many media reports and blogs that keep referring to the shooting at the Holocaust Museum as a hate crime but not that many referring to the murders of Brisenia Flores and her father as a hate crime. On a legislative level, states each have their own hate crime statutes that aren't consistent with each other so what may be a hate crime in one state may not be in another. Often the definition of a hate crime is hinged on the use of an epithet or slur, not the history of the community where it happened. This is why some advocates have been pushing for Federal hate crimes legislation, that would create one standard that would be followed across state lines and these moves make people feel good, offer a sense of protection, except they are only good once there is a victim. U.S. Reps. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Steve Israel (D-NY) and José E. Serrano (D-NY) announced the introduction of the National Hate Crimes Hotline Act of 2009. "Far too many victims silently bear the burden of the crimes committed against them, which is why we are taking steps to provide a place for them to be heard. A National Hate Crimes Hotline would allow New Yorkers and victims across the country to safely report to the police and find vital assistance. In addition, accurate reporting will improve local responsiveness, increase prevention efforts and help bring an end to these heinous acts," said Rep. Velázquez.
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 22:09:22 PM EST
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According to a new study by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, Latinos accounted for 40% of all people sentenced to federal crimes in 2007, even though they made up only 13% of the U.S. adult population. This is clearly a result of all of the Racial Profiling brought about by the 287(g) policies and the restrictionist policies promoted by the ANTI Immigration Reform forces.
The study, which relied on data from U.S. Sentencing Commission statistics, analyzed the ethnic makeup and citizenship status of offenders sentenced in federal courts in the U.S. from 1991 to 2007.
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Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 12:41:07 PM EST
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Candlelight Vigil in Memory of Marcello Lucero
No more hate, no more violence, we are all community
Date: November 14th, 7pm
Place: Railroad Ave and Sephton Street, Patchogue, NY
A candlelight vigil will be held to speak out against hate crimes against immigrants in Suffolk County, in particular, the murder of Marcello Lucero, an immigrant from Ecuador. The perpetrators clearly stated according to news accounts that they were planning to "find some Mexicans." This vicious hate crime is only the latest in a long series of crimes targeting Latinos in Suffolk County.
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Wed Nov 12, 2008 at 14:30:25 PM EST
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 I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER how many times I've written on hate crimes against Latinos, or how the MSM spins the news and what it features to perpetuate fear and loathing and tired roleplaying of Brown/Black/Golden as Other/Evil/Contagion/Alien, or the advertisements that do the same, and the putos and haterz and abettors of the growing violence against mi gente. Some claim their virulent resistance to those from South of the "border" is all about "law" when clearly it is about culture and resistance to change at best, and naked racism at worst. (Some sound advice on how to take the shifting culture with perhaps some humor, rather than abject fear.)
The Clotty Red Stopper should not be yanked from its bottle so casually, as both Sarah Palin and John McCain ought to know by now. Demons claw at the cork all night. They gain legs in the silences left by the Left and are called forth from many foaming mouths on the Right.
Marcello Lucero was killed late Saturday night near the commuter railroad station in Patchogue, N.Y., a middle-class village in central Long Island. He was beaten and stabbed. The friend who crouched beside him in a parking lot as he lay dying, soaked in blood, said Mr. Lucero, who was 37, had come to the United States 16 years ago from Ecuador.
The police arrested seven teenage boys, who they said had driven into the village from out of town looking for Latinos to beat up. The police said the mob cornered Mr. Lucero and another man, who escaped and later identified the suspects to the police. A prosecutor at the arraignment on Monday quoted the young men as having said: "Let's go find some Mexicans."
-A Death in Patchogue
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Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 21:57:55 PM EST
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Once again, New York's Suffolk County is in the headlines for another act of violence against Latinos and immigrants. Over the last few years Suffolk has not only become a center for growing anti-Latino violence, but along with Hazleton PA, Prince William County VA, and Farmers Branch TX, it has become a principal force in the growing movement for local governments to enact their own immigration law.
Under the leadership of its County Executive, the county has enacted some of the toughest anti-immigrant laws in the nation, making its chief executive, Steve Levy, a national spokesman for the restrictionist cause. .... and his county a hotbed of anti-immigrant hate.
They told police they wanted to beat up someone who looked Hispanic.
That was the motive, police said, that a mob of seven young men had in mind when they attacked a Patchogue man, who ended up being stabbed to death minutes before midnight Saturday, Suffolk police said.
"These individuals told detectives that they were looking to beat someone of Latino heritage," said Det. Lt Jack Fitzpatrick, commander of the homicide squad, adding that the victim, Marcello Lucero, 37, is of Ecuadorian descent.
Fitzpatrick said the seven suspects drove around Patchogue searching for victims and found Lucero and another Ecuadorian man.
Cops: Fatal stabbing of Patchogue man a hate crime - Newsday
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 11:48:19 AM EDT
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((Kety Esquivel is one of the Founding Editors of The Sanctuary, and now also the New Media Manager for The National Council of La Raza) - promoted by Duke)
Originally posted at wecanstopthehate.org
NCLR launched http://www.WeCanStoptheHate.org to address the surge of hate and violence infecting the immigration debate, but this is not the only place where hate is showing up these days. Extremists are now bringing hate into the voter debate and the portrayal of people of color. Most recently, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) was bombarded with malicious emails, voicemails, and death threats, and transgressors vandalized their Boston and Seattle offices.
The Emails:
Email #1:
"_____ is going to have her life ended."
Email #2:
"You blue gums are not going to steal the election. All of you porch monkeys need to go back to Africa."
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