Trump fundraiser on Thursday is ‘a finger in the eye’ of Patchogue’s Ecuadorians who still endure racism that led to hate crime against Marcelo Lucero in 2008It takes approximately three minutes to walk from the lowbrow Emporium nightclub where Donald Trump is being feted at a Republican fundraiser on Thursday night to the unmarked spot on the sidewalk in Patchogue where Marcelo Lucero died after being attacked by a pack of white teenagers in 2008,just days after Barack Obama became America’s first black president.
Lucero, 37, and who worked at a local dry cleaner,was set upon by seven youths engaged in “hunting Latinos” and his killing was prosecuted as a hate crime.
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Source: theguardian.com