Immigrants Death Sparks Tensions in New York

“It was the kind of life and death that might have slipped by without much notice. Rene Perez was homeless, a drinking man from Guatemala, an occasional laborer in this affluent community, and he was found unconscious on a desolate road in a nearby town only to die soon afterward.

But the county medical examiner ruled his death in the early hours of April 29 a homicide, probably from blows to the abdomen, and soon police from Bedford, where Perez was found, said that three Mount Kisco officers were being investigated in connection with his death. The officers — who had responded to a 911 call from Perez and left him just 44 minutes before he was found unconscious — were put on desk duty, their patrol cars temporarily impounded.”

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