Latinos Recall Pattern of Attacks Before Marcelo Lucero Killing

January 10, 2009

The N.Y Times had a follow-up story on the hate murder last November of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecudoran immigrant on Long Island (Click here to see the indicrtment.). “The attacks were such an established pastime that the youths, who have pleaded not guilty, had a casual and derogatory term for it, `beaner hopping.’” One of the youths told the authorities, “I don’t go out doing this very often, maybe once a week.”

Latinos in Patchogue, N.Y. report that regular harassment, muggings and assaults have had them living in fear — “11 men told The New York Times of 13 attacks, nine of them in the past two years.”