Families of Local Hate Crime Victims Unite at Funeral

2008_12_hatecrimes.jpgTwo families mourned together in Ecuador yesterday, both having lost native sons to hate crimes that took place only a few dozen miles away from each other up here on the same island, but a hemisphere away from where they were born and are now buried. As hundreds gathered to pay their final respects to Jose SucuzhaƱay, the man murdered in Bushwick last week, they were joined by relatives of Marcelo Lucero, who was murdered on Long Island last month. While teens have been arrested in Lucero's murder case, police are still searching for who was behind the attack on SucuzhaƱay. His brother told the press, "I am thankful for the time that I had with my brother. This was a crime against all of us, it was a crime against humanity. May it never happen again."

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It breaks my heart to try to imagine what their families are going through this Christmas. The Bushwick murderer needs to be caught soon.


I wouldn't mind seeing the Patchogue murderers go on a tour of high schools across the state, in unnecessarily-thick chains, explaining their crimes and punishment.


Thanks for Information !

Extremely Repugnant and Repellent hate crimes. I like to investigate in the Internet what happened in these cases in order to report later and make a roster of names, cities, locations and type of Crime.

Just yesterday I was reading that three people had been murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, because of Sexual Orientation, and another human being was in grave condition after being shot there.

I am astonished by this year 2008, everything shows that Hate Crime is increasing at fast speed :

Racial Crimes, Sexual Orientation Crimes and Ethnics Crime. The Miami Herald says that every 9 days someone is killed for Sexual Orientation.

I am reporting all these murders here :

Raciality.com

Vicente Duque

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