VivirLatino

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.

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