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Before the stabbing attack that would claim their final victim, 37-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, the Long Island gang known as "The Caucasian Crew" had been out on "beaner jumping" missions for almost a week leading up to it. The Patchogue attacks included knocking one man unconscious after sucker punching him in the mouth and shooting another with a BB gun. Police believe that there are more victims as well who have not come forward out of fears for their safety. Earlier this week, charges against the Caucasian Crew ringleader, Jeffrey Conroy, who is accused of stabbing Lucero were upped from manslaughter to murder.
Those familiar with tensions in Patchogue say that the attacks and the murder go beyond being just racial attacks. The Post describes it as "a volatile mix of anti-immigration fervor, economic unease and an overwhelming flood of newcomers." While Patchogue is a diverse town, many of the children of immigrants do not fully integrate because they are taught in separate English-as-a-second-language classes. One teenager tells the paper, "These guys, these Mexicans, everyone has a hatred for them. Downtown Patchogue used to be nice, and now they make it all dirtbaggish."
But while Ecuadorians in Lucero's hometown of Gualaceo greeted the return of his body in a casket this week holding up signs such as "No to Yankee Racism," some say that we shouldn't lose sight of the just how young the attackers were. Stephen Steinlight, a senior policy analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies said, "It seems to me they were just 'wilding' - like a scene straight out of 'A Clockwork Orange.'"
Photo Courtesy AP/James Carbone
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i think i knew at about nine years old not to kill people, and i certainly understood the putridness of racism.
these kids should go to jail, and if people believe they are too young, then their parents and teachers should be in jail too.
Provincialism is a huge in the states. People think that by speaking english and having some anglo last name makes a whole set of civilized attributes for them but this case show how far from civilized these "vigilantes" are. Provincial views, ignoring the fact that the idea of nations and borders redefined in global times is just the way of action of those that can not understand change. This racist bunch are just doomed do loose: read a news paper, and hopefully you can even start to understand the stories in the international news, that BTW are way more relevant to their very limited idea of what the world is.
they dont look like kids to me...17 years old, they murdered someone, they should go away, forever.
At the risk of generalizing, White people I've meet from Long Island seem to be more racist than people from the city...this case only confirms it for me....all I can say, wtf Long Island...grow up.
yes it's the guys lining up to do menial labor who are making the town dirtbaggish, not the gang of murderers.
HAHA! It's gonna be white boy jumping in prison. Hold onto your buttholes!
I don't understand how they could hate mexicans. they are pretty timid and hard workers who keep to themselves. Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on the other hand...
Stupidity, violence and ethnic chauvinism are constants independent of race. The truth is that the mechanisms or peaceful socialization are by and large more observeable in contemporary White culture which makes a case like this more newsworthy than the daily violence in inner city black and latino communities.
Hhahaha Baby Hitler!
here it is some vry good piece of film work showcasing the same conflict of borders and good working people:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/9starhotel/fullfilm.html
I thought that the picture was of DEVO.
@7 Ecuadorian, not Mexican.
Hello, Patchogue parents, you've failed.
How close is Patchogue to the losers in Mastic/ Shirley?
Patchogue isn't too far from Mastic. Only about 10 miles and both are south shore central/eastern Suffolk county.
It's sad that this guy was killed. And it's also sad how easy it is for something like that to happen:
A community feels threatened by the invasion of illegals and the tax burden they bring, next thing you know that turns into hatred and they become Hitler's soldiers doing ethnic cleansing...
Comparing these crimes to A Clockwork Orange is like comparing a bowling trophy to the Pieta. This isn't art. This is real-life scuzzy, disgusting crime and these garbages belong at the bottom of a mineshaft covered with lime.
Center for Immigration Studies is Mark Krikorian's anti-immigration think tank. It's weird to see them quoted as though they're a neutral source and not surprising they would want to downplay violence against immigrants, but hey, they gave you a quote so who cares what their agenda is!
This country is made out of immigrants! You MUST respect ALL... These stupid white boys with WHITE last names should go to jail forever. Minors my ass.
I do not respect hatred... and I agree with the comment above: A white (TRASH) group of ignorants called "The Caucasian Crew" definitely DOESN'T make the town dirtbaggish???