Hate crime victim's estate sues NY authorities (AP)

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Old Nov 22nd, 2010, 04:21 PM   #1
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AP - The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit Monday that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man's stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made a sport of targeting Hispanics.



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Fernando Mateo, left, the president of Hispanics Across America, speaks to the media as attorney Kevin Faga listens in front of Brooklyn Federal Court in New York, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Mateo and Faga were announcing that the estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed in a 2008 confrontation with a mob of teens in in Patchogue, Long Island has filed a $40 million federal civil rights lawsuit. The suit filed Monday claims local police and elected officials allowed an atmosphere of violence against Hispanics until it culminated in the death of Marcelo Lucero.
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