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November 20, 2009
Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?
November 19, 2009
Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case. – Puerto Rico
November 9, 2009
Lucero’s brother feels ‘ambushed’ by Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy
Remembering Marcelo Lucero : Images and Thoughts from Vigil in Patchogue, Long Island
After immigrant killed (Marcelo Lucero) in NY, others tell of abuse
November 6, 2009
Activists Push for Immigration Reform on Anniversary of Long Island Hate Crime – Marcelo Lucero
The memory of Marcelo Lucero’s death still horrifies but the atmosphere that created it still exists
One of Marcelo Lucero’s Attackers Pleads Guilty
November 5, 2009
Remembering Marcelo Lucero : One Year Later, The List of Hate Crimes Grows Longer
October 27, 2009
Passage of Hate Crimes Bill Signals a New Day for Justice, Says NCLR
October 26, 2009
Men charged in Plainfield, NJ beating death of Hispanic immigrant, Lazaro Tista, also accused of hate crime
October 15, 2009
Mexican Illegal Immigrant (Mario Vera) Badly Beaten In Brooklyn – Devastated Wife Asks For Witnesses To Come Forward; Woodhull Hospital Under Fire Over Initial Treatment – (yet another apparent hate crime called “bias attack” – $12k reward for info) + video
October 12, 2009
Hate Crimes Act Passed, Will It Stop Actual Hate Though?
October 9, 2009
Julio Maldonado : Hate Crime Survivor Scheduled for Deportation
September 10, 2009
Six boys were charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant with bricks, bottles and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks, an attack that civil rights groups decried Tuesday as “hateful.”
September 8, 2009
In a strange twist, police busted a Hispanic man for tossing a bottle and a piece of wood at parishioners of a Hispanic church in an area of Long Island long plagued by racial strife — and charged him with a hate crime. (wt!@$)
Christhian Munguia Garcia
September 2, 2009
Violent Anti-Immigrant Climate in Suffolk County, NY
September 1, 2009
Another Latino targeted in Patchogue “hate crime” – Long Island, NY
August 27, 2009
Un inmigrante ecuatoriano está filmando una película que aborda un tema oportuno en la isla de Long Island: crimen por prejuicios.
August 17, 2009
A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hispanic was killed in an alleged hate crime last fall, police said.
August 5, 2009
The Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF, gratefully lauds the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for their Action on behalf of the actual and the potential victims of hate speech and hate crimes.
July 29, 2009
A Transgender Person is Murdered Every 3 Days in the World…Mostly in Latin America
July 11, 2009
Los grupos racistas han proliferado en Estados Unidos – Video
June 26, 2009
SUMMARY: FCC Petition for Inquiry on Hate Speech in Media – Filed January 28, 2009 by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation on behalf of the National Hispanic Media Coalition
June 25, 2009
Voto Latino interview with Robert Cantu (warning: mid video has violent footage) – Noosing victim in Ohio
Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress Thursday to pass a new hate crimes law which would allow the federal government to prosecute cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender or disability.
June 23, 2009
News special on hate crimes against Hispanics tonight at 10 pm ET on Univision – Odio a Muerte in Spanish
June 19, 2009
Weekly Immigration Wire: Why Are Hate Crimes on the Rise?
June 18, 2009
6 Months and 10 Days : What Courts Value Latino Lives At
As Hate Crimes Rise, Police Chiefs Call Immigration System an Obstacle to Prosecution
June 17, 2009
2 teens get jail time in Mexican’s beating death – received 7 to 23 months for their roles in the beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez
Hate crimes against Hispanics increased by almost 40 percent between 2003 and 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.
June 16, 2009
An Ohio boy says he was dragged through a parking lot with a noose wrapped around his neck by a group of teenagers who shouted racial slurs at him. Hispanic 17-year-old Robert Cantu
Finally, Congress working on empowering victims of hate crimes
May 14, 2009
The acquittal of white Pennsylvania teenagers of all serious charges this month in the death of Luis Ramirez has become a rallying cry for justice among Hispanics who feel increasingly under attack here in America. It also has exposed difficulties in enforcing hate crime laws designed to keep minorities from becoming targets.
May 7, 2009
Staten Islander arrested a 2nd time in alleged hate crime – accused of whipping a Mexcian immigrant with his belt, reportedly told police: “We did nothing wrong. … He’s an illegal immigrant. I’m an American citizen.”
Petition Launched Urging DOJ to Investigate Luis Ramirez Hate Crime
May 6, 2009
Hispanic group: Verdict is ‘outrage’ – Shenandoah is uneasy after 2 are acquitted of murdering Mexican.
March 4, 2009
2 Indicted in Fatal Beating of Ecuadorean Immigrant – The two suspects, Keith Phoenix, 28, and Hakim Scott, 25, are charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault, all as hate crimes, for the Dec. 7 attack on the immigrant, Jose O. Sucuzhañay, and his brother Romel, who survived.
January 28, 2009
Ground-breaking Study on Hate Speech to be Revealed
December 20, 2008
A judge has sentenced Jamie Underwood to 120 years in prison without the possibility of parole in the slayings of six Mexican immigrants in the Tifton area three years ago – Georgia
December 18, 2008
Another Perceived Hate Crime Murder Prompts Latino Leaders to Call for Passage of Hate Crimes Bill
Several hundred Hispanics gathered Wednesday in the New York borough of Queens to say their last goodbyes to Ecuadorian Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhañay, the victim of a hate crime.
December 15, 2008
Hundreds protest New York immigrant’s fatal beating – Jose Sucuzhanay
December 12, 2008
y all accounts, he was a good man. But the racist thugs who savagely beat him last Sunday morning did not care. They did not know him, they only knew they hated José Osvaldo Sucozhanay because he was Latino and they thought he was gay.
MALDEF CALLS FOR NATIONAL ACTION IN WAKE OF KILLING OF THIRD LATINO VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME IN FIVE MONTHS
As much as I would like to attribute two recent incidents of violent attacks against Latinos as evidence that New York City is out of control, I have to be honest and admit that the tensions that likely caused the incidents exist everywhere in this country.
December 10, 2008
Speaking outside the hospital, Diego Sucuzhanay said his brother had been singled out for his “skin color” and sounded a warning to other immigrants. “Today my brother is the victim, but tomorrow it could be your brother, your mother, your father,” Mr. Sucuzhanay said.
New York beating victim dies, police say – Authorities open a homicide investigation into the attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant whose assailants reportedly shouted anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs.
Los médicos que atienden al ecuatoriano José Sucuzhanay, víctima de una paliza por supuestos motivos de odio racial, han declarado su muerte cerebral, aunque continúa con respiración asistida – NYC
December 9, 2008
Attack on Ecuadorean Brothers Investigated as Hate Crime – NYC
December 2, 2008
Hate crimes targeting Latinos increased again in 2007, capping a 40% rise in the four years since 2003, according to FBI statistics released this fall.
Driven by racial violence between blacks and Latinos, hate crimes in Los Angeles rose by 28% in 2007, hitting a five-year high, according to a report issued in July by the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission.
November 21, 2008
NCLR, LCCR, ADL, AAJC, National Urban League and MALDEF to Hold News Briefing on the Rise in Hate During and Since the Election
6 Long Island Teens Charged With Hate Crimes and one with murder in the Nov. 8 killing of Marcelo Lucero
August 20, 2008
Hispanic group alleges schools didn’t respond – Shenandoah district says it’s holding a diversity program on Monday. – Pennsylvania
August 18, 2008
Hearings for three in Shenandoah beating interrupted briefly by Latino demonstrators in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
August 5, 2008
Mexican’s Death Bares a Town’s Ethnic Tension – Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
July 30, 2008
Call for peace echoes at vigil for slain Mexican in Shenandoah – Pennsylvania
July 27, 2008
According to reports from WNEP-TV and the Associated Press three white Schuylkill County teens are charged with the beating death of a Hispanic man nearly two weeks ago. All are from well-known families in Shenandoah and some are on the high school football team. One of the teens charged is a Bloomsburg University student.
July 24, 2008
Luis Ramirez was beaten to death last week by a group of white teenagers yelling racial slurs in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Despite eyewitness testimony, no charges have been filed. Democracy Now speaks with Arielle Garcia, a friend of Ramirez who witnessed the attack.
July 21, 2008
Mexican immigrant’s beating at hands of youths exposes racial tensions in Pennsylvania town – Shenandoah
