NYC Police: Mexican Immigrant Beaten in Apparent Bias Attack

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: AP

New York City police say a Mexican immigrant was so badly beaten in an apparent bias attack that he cannot remember where it happened or when.

The police department on Saturday announced a $12,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible in the attack on Mario Vera.

A spokesman for Vera's family says the 38-year-old construction worker remains in the hospital and can't walk or talk.

Spokesman Walter Sinche says Vera's "completely lost."

Police say that Vera's wife reported that he was attacked on Sept. 23 while returning on bicycle to his Brooklyn home. He has been hospitalized since Oct. 1.

Police say three males beat him while yelling anti-Mexican slurs.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568444,00.html

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More details at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18assault.html

[Chulanowa]

1. Goddamn.

of course, this being DU, we can expect some Lou Dobbs-loving mouth breather to try to excuse the assholes who did this.

[robo50]

3. Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Rush, Hannity, Bill0, Michael Savage,

so many racist hate-filled talking head broadcasters out there, feeding these thugs excuses to do stuff like this, to immigrants, gays, blacks, whomever the thugs want to attack.

I think we should send the bill for these hospitalizations to Lou and his buddies in the broadcast industry.

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[JonQ]

2. Tragic

Hope they catch the guy.

[lurky]

4. I'm guessing Black vs. Latino tension was at the root.

Based on the neighborhood. It happened at Broadway and Lafayette in Brooklyn, which is right on the border of Bushwick (his neighborhood, mostly Latino), and Bedford-Stuyvesant (mostly Black).

[WriteDown]

7. Good analysis.

Bedford Stuy sure has changed from 30 years ago. Then again, so has Far Rockaway where some of my family still lives.

[Posteritatis]

5. Interesting - NYT says "hate crime," fox says "bias attack" (nt)

[nomorenomore08]

8. Makes sense that they'd use a euphemism in this case...

:eyes:

[izquierdista]

9. It's something they have more experience with

In fact, biased attack is pretty much what defines them.

[Grassy Knoll]

10. That is because Rupert Murdoch is on......

The AP board of directors , also owns FAUX NOISE.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/14/rupert-murdoch-joins-associated-press-board/

[burning rain]

11. Sure hope they get the thugs who did it.

Bad economic times and scapegoating of immigrants go hand in hand.