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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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Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 14:01:23 PM EDT
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This week, The New York Times (NYT) delved into the Minutemen Project and Shawna Forde, former head of the Minutemen American Defense. Forde was recently arrested for the murder of nine-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. The murder happened during an inconceivable attempt to steal money for the development of an underground militia targeting undocumented immigrants.
NYT quoted former Minutemen American Defense member Merrill Metzger saying, "I had to take an oath, and part of the oath was that I couldn't eat Mexican food. That's when red flags went up all over for me. That seemed like prejudice."
Another former member, Chuck Stonex, said Forde had talked about buying a ranch near Arivaca, AZ and building a compound. According to NYT, Stonex said that he took an excursion in October into the desert with Forde, where, wearing camouflage and carrying handguns and rifles, they searched for illegal immigrants.
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 16:59:29 PM EDT
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 I'M VERY SORRY TO SAY that Brisenia Flores and her father Raul are dead. That's her on the left. The Flores familia was sleeping when anti-immigrant crusaders busted down their door and invaded their home, ICE-style, before shooting the father and daughter to death.
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Tue May 12, 2009 at 16:49:31 PM EDT
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By The Sanctuary Editors
Three things immediately shock the conscious soul upon learning about the murder of Luis Ramirez. The simple manner in which he died is the first of those.
Ramirez, a father of three, was beaten to death in the streets of Pennsylvania by as many as seven young men who were at the end of a night of drinking. The motive? Judging by the slurs heaped upon him along with the many blows to his body: apparently nothing more than being out at night while Mexican. The teens who ganged up on Ramirez came upon him walking with a young woman, reportedly his girlfriend's sister. Obviously bringing threat, they asked him what he was doing out at that time of day. Then they set upon him. In the end it was a final hard kick to the skull which left the 25-year-old father convulsing on the concrete with fatal brain damage.
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Sun Nov 09, 2008 at 14:18:16 PM EST
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"Doubt and Impartiality" The (Mexico City) News 10-Oct-08 lead editorial:
Doubt and impartiality
Overshadowed by the U.S. election and Mexico City plane crash of Nov. 4 was a U.S. judge's decision that day to declare a mistrial in the trial of Nicholas Corbett, a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with murdering an illegal border-crosser from Mexico in Arizona in 2007.
The judge declared the mistrial after the 12-member Tucson jury deadlocked on a verdict. It was the second time that a deadlocked jury caused a mistrial in the case, and prosecutors are now considering whether to try the case a third time or drop the charges.
The case demonstrates some of the pros and cons of the jury trial system.
The evidence in the case was strong: Prosecutors had eyewitness statements and forensic evidence suggesting that Corbett shot the victim from behind as he was raising his arms in surrender. Corbett declined to take the stand, but his lawyers told the jury that he fired in self-defense. And they pointed out several flaws in the investigation, clearly raising a reasonable doubt in at least one juror.
The reasonable doubt standard is a good one, for it requires the government to present a highly convincing case to a jury of citizens before it can put someone in prison.
However, the jury system also requires that jurors be completely impartial. The idea that 12 average people from Arizona were purely unbiased in a case involving illegal immigration is hard to believe.
"I think if an illegal immigrant had Corbett's story and he was charged with killing a police officer, he would have been convicted in about five minutes," Grant Woods, the special prosecutor in the case, told the Arizona Daily Star.
We think he's got a valid point.
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