SHENANDOAH — A 25-year-old father of three with roots in Mexico died Monday morning from injuries he suffered in an altercation near Vine Street Park on Saturday night, an incident some say was racially motivated.
Eileen Burke, a retired Philadelphia police officer who lives near the scene, said about the time of the beating she heard someone shouting “You tell all your Mexican friends to get out of town.”
“We saw a bunch of kids walking away and screaming things like ... ‘Go back to Mexico.’ We called the police,” said Arielle Garcia, 17, a friend of Ramirez who was at the scene.
Police said they are not commenting on the assailants’ motivation until interviews are complete.
ガキンチョが「おまえら、メキシコのダチにこの街から出て行け、って伝えておきな」「メキシコに帰れ！」などと叫びながら殴られていた、という証言があるにも係わらず、ヘイトクライムかどうかに関してはいまだ、不確定だという。
“(Residents) constantly yelled at people as they walked down the street,” Dillman said. Dillman, 24, said that even in the three years she had been engaged to Ramirez, tensions had increased.http://www.republicanherald.com/articles/2008/07/17/news/local_news/pr_republican.20080717.a.pg1.pr17homicide_s1.1815854_top2.txt
移民問題がメディアで取りざたされ、住民は常日頃街の移民たちにむかって叫び声を上げていた、という。
“If that was a Latino or an African-American person who did that to a Caucasian, would they be standing?” Baker asked O’Neill.
“The law is blind, if they are guilty of an offense, charges will be filed,” O’Neill said.
Baker then said there were several incidents in the borough where he believes nothing was done because the victim was Hispanic.
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犯人がなかなか逮捕されない、犯人がラティーノで、被害者が白人なら、そんなことないだろう、と。
まあ、本当のところはわからない。わからないですけど、移民の問題はこのように社会に亀裂や緊張を生み出していることも知っておくべきでしょう。
なお、
Luis Ramirez Beaten To Death: Some Try to Justify参照
