Comments on: Beating of Luis Ramirez ruled a homicide — Could this be the rallying cry for Latino politicians?

By: 9 Years in Prison for the Beating Death of Luis Ramirez

9 Years in Prison for the Beating Death of Luis Ramirez — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:52:00 +0000

[...] the two and a half years since the beating death of Luis Ramirez, we have witnessed more hate crimes against Latinos. Two other notables being the [...]

By: Kori K

Kori K — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:29:06 +0000

I wonder what would happen given the same situation -6 mexicans brutally beat up father of two children mmmm…..im shure they would get a simple assault charge to, NOT! they would prob ALL get 25 to life ..go figure. what a complete failure im sick to my stomach to see they only got a simple assault charge and aquitted on murder. illegal or not they killed a man,beat him up so bad his skull was fractured to the point were his brains were oozing out. I guess its ok to brutally beat up a” illegal” and get a slap on the hand..i mean they are here unlawfully why do we care if our high school football stars kill a mexican ,he should of stayed in mexico right ? What a disturbing crime . oh yea im norwegan/spanish (spain that is..you know the that land mass next to France)

By: Sinz

Sinz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:11:34 +0000

listen im the cousin of crystal dillman, i dont give a fuck who you are if you are illegal you dont belong here, i am not a rasict but i am a very proud patriot of America. I dont know the exact story of what went on but i do know this, i am of german italian and scottish decent, and my great grandparents came here from germany and italy legally. But thats not what i am trying to get at , what im trying to say is just because im white doesnt mean i think only mexicans should leave if theyre here ilegally. NO, im saying if your german, italian, mexican, russian, scottish, irish, etc. YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE. unless approved by the americans.

By: JUSTICE FOR ALL

JUSTICE FOR ALL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:29:48 +0000

A representative of Ramirez’s family said the jurors got it wrong.

“There’s been a complete failure of justice,” said Gladys Limon, staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, who attended the trial and informed Ramirez’s family of the verdict. “It’s just outrageous and very difficult to understand how any juror could have had reasonable doubt.”

On Saturday the group’s interim president, Henry Solano, called on the Justice Department to “bring justice to the Ramirez family and send a strong message that violence targeting immigrants will not be tolerated.” Piekarsky’s attorney declined comment on the possibility of federal charges against the teens.

Prosecutors had cast Ramirez as the victim of a gang of drunken white teens motivated by a dislike of their small coal town’s growing Hispanic population. They said he was killed by a kick to the head from Piekarsky after he’d been knocked unconscious by another teen.

By: JUSTICE FOR ALL

JUSTICE FOR ALL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:20:00 +0000

The extent of Ramirez’s injuries, which had left his brain oozing from his skull, according to medical testimony, should have sufficed for a conviction other more than a fucking simple assault

By: JUSTICE FOR ALL

JUSTICE FOR ALL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:42:42 +0000

sadly I doubt the AG will do anything because they didn’t lift a finger for David Ritcheson, except to say that the scope of the national hate crime is outside their jurisdiction.

By: JUSTICE FOR ALL

JUSTICE FOR ALL — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:28:08 +0000

If Latinos had killed an Anglo, you can be sure that Lou Dobbs would be screaming about it. As it is, White Americans really do not care that an “illegal” was murdered. Most think he deserved it. That’s the everyday tragedy of this crime. Those teens knew what they were doing, and need to be tried as adults. The law is the law, as anti-immigrants like to say. Too bad they never want that law applied with force to White criminals.

By: DDee

DDee — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:38:49 +0000

this is no ok,people need to get out there and pass some kind of law that protects people from being murdered like this!!!

By: moth in past life

moth in past life — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:06:15 +0000

FIRST & FORMOST….WHO GIVES A SHIT WHAT COLOR HIS SKIN WAS, WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS HERE ILLEGALLY….HE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH….WHO’S BUSINESS IS IT IF HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS 15…OR THE FACT HE COULD HAVE BEEN ON DRUGS……BOTTOM LINE PEOPLE…..HE’S DEAD, ALL BECAUSE OF THREE “BOYS” WHO “THOUGHT” THEY WERE COOL BEATING HIM UP……I’M POSITIVE “KARMA” WILL BE ONE DAY KICKING THEM IN THE ASS, SO TO SPEAK!!! {MAYBE THAT’S HOW JUSTICE SHOULD BE SERVED, YA THINK}?

OH, BYE THE WAY….I AM A WHITE WOMAM

By: Update on Luis Ramirez Case — Teens involved only convicted of simple assault

Mon, 04 May 2009 03:07:46 +0000

[...] in July, we blogged about the beating death of Luis Ramirez in the Shenandoah region of Pennsylvania. Many wondered if [...]