Posts Tagged ‘hate crimes against latinos’
Speaking Spanish Could be Harmful to your Health
11:20 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|language|race · Comments Off
31 Jan 2009
Marcelo Lucero, Wilter Sanchez, and José Sucuzhañay taught the rest of the world what Latinos in the U.S. have known for a long time, that looking Latino, existing, puts your life at risk, your body at risk. Add to this fear of a Spanish speaking planet, because Spanish language=Latino=immigrant=target.
A 28-year-old San Jose man was arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime Monday after allegedly attacking another man because he was speaking Spanish, police Officer Jermaine Thomas said Tuesday.
The 53-year-old victim, who is Hispanic, was talking on his cell phone in Spanish in the area of Saratoga and Latimer avenues around 12:20 p.m. when the attack occurred, Thomas said.
The suspect, San Jose resident Scott Pontzious, who is white, allegedly told the victim during the assault that he needed to speak English.
Pontzious then fled but was later arrested nearby. He was booked into Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of battery and committing a hate crime, Thomas said.
Via / KTVU, Citizen Orange
José Sucuzhañay Rally in Brooklyn
9:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City · 2 Comments
15 Dec 2008
Yesterday there was a rally for the latest known Latino hate crime victim José Sucuzhañay.
Present at the rally were Latino city politicos including Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez , City Council member Diana Reyna and City Council member Melissa Mark-Viverito. Also present was Altagracia Mayi, activist and the mother of another hate crime victim, Manny Mayi.
Joselo Lucero, whose brother Marcelo was killed last month by a group of Long Island teenagers, was also among those who took part in the Bushwick vigil.
It is so important that the families of those touched by hate crimes be unified and be at the front lines of these struggles. It shoes how racist violence has a history (Mayi was killed in 1991) and how all of these crimes are connected, not just by racist hate that is not going away but also by a criminal (in)justice system that refuses to properly investigate and prosecute these crimes and treats them like isolated incidents.
Via / Blabbeando, Boy in Bushwick
Rally/Vigil in Brooklyn Today for José Osvaldo Sucuzhanay
8:21 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Immigration|Justice|New York City · Comments Off
14 Dec 2008
This afternoon there will be a vigil for the recently deceased Ecuadorian migrant who was assaulted in a hate crime in Brooklyn. The vigil against hate will take place at 2 p.m., in the community park at Grove St. and Myrtle Ave., in Bushwick. Take the L subway line to Myrtle-Wyckoff or the M to Knickerbocker Ave.
Marcelo Lucero’s Accused Killers Spent a Week Practicing Their Racist/Murderous Skills
11:08 am By Maegan La Mala · crime|Immigration|Justice|New York · Comments Off
23 Nov 2008
Yesterday people took to the streets of Hempstead, Long Island to demand justice for the 37 year old Ecuadorian who was killed last week in a vicious, racist gang assault targeting Latinos.
What Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy refuses to accept is his role in this, in how his initial reaction of Lucero’s death, diminishing it to a one day story , told a million days of truth of what the death of a Latino is worth. One fucking day. Pero the lives of the accused killers? At least a week. In the lives of others in Suffolk county? Years.
La Lucha Sigue Sigue : Marcelo Lucero Vive Vive
1:39 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Justice|New York · 1 Comment
21 Nov 2008
Excuse me if I have little sympathy for parents at a meeting at Patchogue-Medford High School, where the accused in the racist hate driven murder in the death of Marcelo Lucero, especially one who yelled :
“What are we doing to make sure the media doesn’t grab our kids to be interviewed?” and then many parents screamed and confronted the Newsday reporter–who was escorted out even though she was given permission to attend.
I have little sympathy because these parents and so many others like them were not and still are not screaming the way I and other Latinos have been screaming for years: “What are we doing to make sure that my neighbor, lover, father of my child, tio, hijo, familia and comunidad are not grabbed to be killed.”
Marcelo Lucero’s story, sadly is not a new one. It is one of many instances of hate fueled by anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric coming from both ends of the political spectrum. The fact that Marcelo is another Mannuel Mayi is the reason why I take no issue with calling Marcelo an immigrant, while some Latino blogs have taken issue with that labeling. When Marcelo was targeted for death, the killers didn’t ask to see his papers or engage in conversation to hear if he spoke with an accent. He was tagged a Latino which has been made to equal immigrant which has been made to equal not having the right to exist. It didn’t matter what Latin American country Marcelo came from. It mattered that he was “other”, the way my own children can be othered by the color of their skins and their names.
Anti-Immigrant/Anti-Latino Hate Claims Another Vida : Marcello Lucero
2:59 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|New York City · 1 Comment
12 Nov 2008
The anti-immigrant hate speech spreading like fire is spit out and meant to burn. In the New York City suburb of Patchogue, Long Island, 37 year old Ecuadorian Marcello Lucero went do what many of us take for granted, being outside. He was met by a gang of 7 high school students who also went outside, but they had a sinister mission: to attack a Latino.
Seven high school students looking “to beat up some Mexicans” attacked an immigrant from Ecuador on a Long Island street, with one of them fatally plunging a knife into the man’s chest during the brawl, police said. A prosecutor compared Marcello Lucero’s death over the weekend to a lynching, and the attack was officially labeled a hate crime by Suffolk County authorities.
Hate Crimes Against Latinos Up
10:01 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Immigration|Justice · 9 Comments
11 Mar 2008
I’ve said it once and I will say it a thousand times, the anti-immigrant rhetoric translates into anti-Latino rhetoric and actions and if you don’t believe me then believe a report put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They released a report titled “The Year in Hate” citing that 819 people were targets of anti-Latino crime in 2006, compared with 595 in 2003.
“If it were merely the groups in a corner by themselves it wouldn’t be worrying,” [Mark]Potok said. “But now the propaganda is being circulated by the mainstream media.”
Potok said conspiracy theories by the groups have been picked up and given validation by CNN and some national politicians.
Among the worst offenders, Potok said, are CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa).
And the sad reality is that the FBI’s number is likely lower than the real numbers for two reasons. One, many hate crimes are never reported out of fear. Two, to get a hate crime classified as a hate crime, each state has it’s own standards that are variable and often very stringent. For example most of the time even if there are 10 white guys beating a Latino to death, one of those white guys will have to have been heard using the word “spic” or the like in order for the crime to be labeled a hate crime.
Via / The Latin Americanist
Hate Crimes Against Latinos Up
8:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime|Immigration|Justice|race · Comments Off
28 Nov 2007
Think that the anti-immigrant rhetoric doesn’t impact the everyday lives of Latinos? Think again.
The FBI released its latest national hate crime statistics last week, and while these numbers are shaky they do indicate hate crimes directed at undocumented immigrants — and Latinos in general — are up 35% over the last four years.
Shaky stats aside, most Latino activists and community workers know that overwhelmingly, many hate crimes are never reported and even when they are, getting those crimes labeled as “hate crime” is a whole other hurdle to jump.
Houston Hate Crime Against Latino On Trial
12:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · houston|Justice|race|Texas · 1 Comment
15 Nov 2006
Those who say racism is dead need to look to Houston, Texas and the trial that began yesterday against 18 year old David Henry Tuck, a white skinhead accused of beating and sexually assaulting a 17 year old Latino because the Latino tried to kiss a white girl.
Prosecutor Mike Trent told the jury a girl said that the Latino teen tried to kiss her at a party in the Houston suburb of Spring and that the girl’s brother hit him, Trent said.“Then Mr. Tuck decided to take matters into his own hands and teach (the victim to) never do that again,” Trent said.
Was Orlando Burglary a Hate Crime?
12:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Florida|race · Comments Off
15 Sep 2006
When does a crime become a hate crime? That is the question surrounding a burglary in Orlando, Florida. Not only was the Aguirre family robbed of their car and $8,000 worth of items, they were also victims of hate messages on the walls and doors of their home.
“I was upset because it was something that I can’t believe,” family member Lisa Martinez said. “They drew on the doors. They said, ‘I took your car, I’m a white boy and I hate Puerto Ricans.’”
Additionally the criminals poured bleach into the familiy fish tank, killing all the fish.
Via / Local6.com
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