Update on inter-racial couple driven out of neighborhood by hate mail

[tk2kewl]

This is a link to the story I posted a couple of weeks ago about an inter-racial couple and their 7 kids on Long Island. They were driven out of their home by continual harassment from their neighbors. Hate mail using the N-word and invoking Hitler as a solution was repeatedly sent to the family.

Since the police have not been able to charge the bastards that harassed these people, they have filed a $20 million civil suit against the haters.

[HEyHEY]

1. I hope they take legal action against the cops too

[tk2kewl]

4. I really don't understand why the cops can't charge these people

They say there was no threat of harm, yet on letter said "where is Hitler when you need him." If that's not a threat I don't know what is.

You certainly couldn't get away with sending a letter to Kennedy saying "where is Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan when you need them."

...or to bush "where is John Hinkley when you need him."

Those would be threats. So why isn't sending a letter to a African American/Jewish couple saying "where is Hitler when you need him" not considered a threat?? :wtf:

[PunkPop]

2. Awesome. Do they have a case here?

Where are our DU lawyers?

[Fridays Child]

3. If they live in a deed-restricted neighborhood...

...they should name the HOA, in the suit, as well.

[tk2kewl]

7. probalby not... it's an old suburban neighborhood, I doubt there is

a homeowners assoc. or anything like that

[Fridays Child]

8. Too bad because HOAs carry multi-million dollar liabilty policies...

...and they'd probably do whatever they could to settle with these people, rather than have the neighborhood dragged through the mud and special assessments levied against the homes to pay damages in excess of the policy limits. That kind of thng can kill property values for every home within an HOA's jurisdictional boundaries.

[antigone382]

5. Some snips from the article:

The civil suit filed in Central Islip names Karen and Salvatore Rizzo, who at one time lived less than a block from the Fuchses.

In July 2002, shortly after the Fuchses moved in, the Rizzos "repeatedly harassed the plaintiffs and other non-Caucasians who had the misfortune of living in the defendants' neighborhood by calling them racial epithets ... ," the lawsuit charges.

The Rizzos did not return calls for comment yesterday or answer the door at their home. A background check by Newsday showed that neither has a criminal record.

(snip)

The hate mail began arriving in the Fuchses' mailbox in March, the suit said. Racial epithets were in place of the couple's last name, including a misspelled derogatory word for blacks and a slur for Jews.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lifuchs0824,0,7648388.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

May the Salvatores experience all the misery they have heaped on others, tenfold. I'm ashamed to see that they are Italians--like myself--a group that also faced hatred and discrimination when we arrived in the U.S. en masse around the turn of the century. They should know better

[tk2kewl]

6. thanks for posting the snips... I was too busy for that this morning

:hi:

[antigone382]

9. No prob!

:)