November 10, 2008 7:54 PM
(Pat Young) Seven young men were charged today in the death of immigrant Marcello Lucero. Some of them are talking. They said that they were on patrol to go "Beaner jumping". "Beaner" is a derogatory word for Mexican. The attackers told police that they said 'Let's go find some Mexicans to -- -- up,'
The assailants admitted to attacking another Latino previously before setting on Lucero Saturday night, according to Newsday.
Newsday says that the group surrounded Lucero and his friend and began screaming racial epithets at him. One of the White men, Shea, " punched Lucero in the face as Lucero swung his belt at his attackers, in a vain attempt to protect himself."
"I punched him. I got him good. I saw blood coming down," Shea later told police.
Another young man, Conroy, then stabbed him in the chest. Conroy was later found in possession of the knife.
Many believe that this was not the first time these guys attacked Latinos, but since Levy became County Executive and tried to turn the police into an arm of ICE, many Hispanics have come to be suspicious of law enforcement and reports of hate crimes have gone down as a result.
The Lucero murder follows a long anti-immigrant campaign in Suffolk.
I am very sad to read on the ignorance of these children. What are we teaching in school? should we blame the parents or just the racisst society that we live in.
Ignorance is what I call it. These are stupid kids having fun and think that it's game. Have you heard of the "Border Patrol" game. This game was created by anti-Mexican bigots, and yet many people play this game online. It's sick to see how our young teenagers are taking video games and making them reality by going out to kill real people. It's not a game it's reality. We as immigrants need to stick together, because this could happen to any of us.I am very sad to see Marcello's American Dream end in this manner.
By Lina November 13, 2008 04:20 AM
His "American Dream"? Gimme a freaking break.. maybe if he wasn't here illegally, then he wouldn't be having these problems.
By dan.brtfod March 25, 2009 06:47 AM
Dan, Marcelo's "problem" was that he was murdered.
By Pat Young March 25, 2009 10:52 AM
Dan, you are an idiot. Enough said.
By Mike March 31, 2009 04:56 AM