Thread: Feds join probe of Mexican slain in Pa. coal town

Jul 30, 8:00 PM EDT

Feds join probe of Mexican slain in Pa. coal town

By MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Justice Department said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant in a small northeastern Pennsylvania town.

The federal involvement comes less than a week after local officials in Schuylkill County charged three white teens in this month's attack in Shenandoah on Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old father of two.

The case has been assigned to FBI agents in Allentown and the criminal section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the department and the FBI confirmed Wednesday. Justice Department spokeswoman Jamie Hais would not say what prompted their involvement.

District Attorney James Goodman said he did not oppose the federal participation.

"I have no problem with them getting involved," he said.

A Mexican-American advocacy group applauded the decision.

"It legitimizes our concerns, that Shenandoah - while it might be a small, little town in Pennsylvania - the significance (of the slaying) really rises to the national stage," said lawyer John Amaya of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which held a vigil Tuesday in Ramirez's memory.

Ramirez was attacked July 12 when he crossed paths with a group of teens who had been out drinking in Shenandoah, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia. He died two days later.

On Friday, county officials filed homicide charges against two teens and ethnic intimidation charges against them and a third.

Amaya blamed the violence on anti-immigrant sentiment broadcast over the nation's airwaves.

"When we hear it spewed every night on CNN or radio talk shows, real people hear it and they take matters into their own hands," he said. "These children, they turn into monsters."

Shenandoah is less than 20 miles from Hazleton, which drew national headlines after it passed a law in 2006 cracking down on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and companies that employ them. Hazleton is appealing a court ruling overturning the law, and Mayor Lou Barletta has made illegal immigration his signature issue as he runs for Congress.

The killing of Ramirez exposed long-simmering tensions in Shenandoah, a blue-collar town of 5,000 with a growing number of Hispanic residents drawn by factory and farm jobs.

Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults last week with homicide and ethnic intimidation. Derrick M. Donchak, 18, was charged with aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation. All three played on the local high school football team last year.

Officials have said they may charge a fourth juvenile suspect in the case, but the county prosecutor declined to comment on any timetable for additional charges.

Ramirez endured frequent harassment, according to fiancee Crystal Dillman, who is white and grew up in Shenandoah.

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Amaya blamed the violence on anti-immigrant sentiment broadcast over the nation's airwaves.

"When we hear it spewed every night on CNN or radio talk shows, real people hear it and they take matters into their own hands," he said. "These children, they turn into monsters."

Bull......look at your own violent children. Wish the feds would step in and deal with them for a change.

Murder is deplorable in any way, but hopefully this incident will make more self-deport or not come here because you never know when you will become the victim of drunken teen football players. And the illegals should remember that Americans legally have a lot of guns.
Perhaps should apologize for the nastiness, but when you get fed up, a person kind of gets on the defensive any way they can.

Amaya blamed the violence on anti-immigrant sentiment broadcast over the nation's airwaves.

"When we hear it spewed every night on CNN or radio talk shows, real people hear it and they take matters into their own hands," he said. "These children, they turn into monsters."

Really? Then please explain Edwin Ramos, for one? Please explain the thousands of illegal aliens killing Americans.

Are the feds involved in the Bologna murders?

Wouldn't it be nice if the Feds came to the defense of US citizens as quickly as they are coming to the assistance of an illegal invader?

Actually, this story is not exactly factual. Ramirez was riding around in a car with a 15-year-old companion, and driving the car was 17-year-old MARRIED Arielle Garcia and her Husband, Victor. After an altercation at a block party earlier that day, Ramirez and the football players were to "meet" at the park.

The fight ended, and everyone walked away, but Luis, who was "so mad" according to Arielle Garcia in an interview on Democracynow.org (audio and transcript available) that Luis WENT BACK FOR MORE and it was a result of this second fight that he himself started that he died.

Furthermore, the affidavits of probable cause are available online at :

http://republicanherald.com/articles...b987435803.txt

At the end of that article at the link you will see links to the police paperwork.

I love this all gets twisted in the lamestream media.