by Joshua Holland, AlterNet
December 16, 2009
It was always difficult to comprehend how a jury could find the young Pennsylvania men who brutally murdered Luis Ramirez -- a Mexican immigrant and father of two young children -- during the hot summer months of 2008 not guilty. The six young men surrounded Ramirez, shouted racial slurs at him and beat him to death.
If federal charges bear out, the result should come as little surprise; justice was apparently not served in the case. As attorney Patrick Young writes, many in the community would have had you believe "that the racial epithets hurled at Ramirez did not make this killing a hate crime.
"They also expect you to see no unfairness in the fact that the initial investigation into the crime was carried out by the partner of a cop who was sleeping with the mother of the young man accused of killing Ramirez. Or that the first person arrested in the incident was a Latino who tried to come to Ramirez's rescue." [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/144623/alleged_police_cover-up_adds_shocking_angle_to_the_racist_murder_of_luis_ramirez_
See also:
Federal Charges Are Filed in Killing of Immigrant
by SeanN D. Hamill, New York Times
December 15, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/us/16hate.html?ref=us
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