by: Steven DWed Jan 14, 2009 at 17:32:13 PM EST |
From Booman Tribune
When is a hate crime not a hate crime? Apparently when you are a Latino or Latina living in Suffolk County, Long Island. But that may be about to change. In the last days of the Bush administration suddenly the Department of Justice has decided to investigate the under-reporting of hate crimes against Latinos there, including what role local police played in actively ignoring such crimes.
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Steven D :: DOJ Investigates Hate Crimes Against Latinos |
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating allegations of hate crimes on eastern Long Island and is considering a request to open a probe into how police and other authorities responded to reports Hispanics were targeted for attacks.
Note to the curious: When your police spokeperson says his department welcomes an investigation into what that department has been doing (or not doing) rest assured he's lying through his Crest Stripped whitened teeth. No local law enforcement agency ever welcomes a federal investigation. And considering the history in Suffolk county I can understand why they are now in major damage control mode:
Animosity over the influx of thousands of immigrants from Central and South America has been simmering for nearly a decade on Long Island.
With Bush in office, however, most police departments haven't had to worry that the DOJ would go looking around for failure to defend tyhe civil rights of minoritiy populations, since Bush officials at the DOJ have been too busy insuring that US Attorneys file phony criminal indictments against popular Democratic politicians and liberal voting activists, eroding the integrity of the Civil Rights division and helping ICE conduct mass raids against suspected "illegal aliens."
I guess with a new sheriff in DC all ready to take charge, some of the cases that had been back burnered for the last eight years suddenly are getting green lighted once again. Funny how that works, isn't it? |
"HATE SPEECH AND MISINFORMATION IN THE MEDIA = A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY"
Friday, January 16, 2009
DOJ Investigates Hate Crimes Against Latinos
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anti latino hate,
anti-immigrant,
doj,
hate crimes,
marcelo lucero,
nativism,
Patchogue,
racism,
xenophobia
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