Breaking News: A Federal Judge Denies BAIL for Brandon Piekarsky & Derrick Donchak for "Kick in the Head" Hate Crime Murder of Luis Ramirez. Piekarsky & Donchak MUST STAY IN JAIL. Piekarsky was scheduled to go home from Prison on Thursday for his previous "slap on the hand" convinction by a local jury. AP Reports:
Pa. teens plead not guilty to hate crime charge
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM (AP) – 8 minutes ago
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A federal judge has denied bail for two Pennsylvania teens charged with a hate crime in the death of a Mexican immigrant. Eighteen-year-old Brandon Piekarsky and 19-year-old Derrick Donchak pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Wilkes-Barre (BEHR'). They were arraigned on charges stemming from the July 2008 beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez in the town of Shenandoah.
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM (AP) – 8 minutes ago
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A federal judge has denied bail for two Pennsylvania teens charged with a hate crime in the death of a Mexican immigrant. Eighteen-year-old Brandon Piekarsky and 19-year-old Derrick Donchak pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Wilkes-Barre (BEHR'). They were arraigned on charges stemming from the July 2008 beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez in the town of Shenandoah.
Judge Malachy Mannion has denied them bail and said they are dangers to the community. A jury previously acquitted the teens of the most serious state charges, angering Hispanic leaders and civil-rights groups. Gov. Ed Rendell asked the Justice Department to pursue civil rights charges.
Three police officers were charged last week with obstructing the investigation into Ramirez's death.
This judge ain't messing around! It's nice to see this case now being handled by professionals who take the issue of murder seriously even if the victim isn't "the right ethnicity" according to some.
ReplyDeleteI think this would be a good topic for your blog since you would want to be fair about reporting all hate crimes I am sure.
ReplyDelete"Then along comes Mauricio Escalante. The 33-year-old illegal immigrant was arrested Saturday for stabbing to death a 17-year-old on the streets of Immokalee.
The teenager’s affront that set off the fatal confrontation — daring to speak English in America."
Brent Batten: Immokalee stabbing shows another side of immigration debate» Naples Daily News
Pete,
ReplyDeleteYou read an incorrect article. You must have read one of those extreme right wing anti immigrant articles.
Here is what really happened per the police report:
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/dec/20/farmworker-held-stabbing-murder-co-worker/
read it please:
in the wee hours of the morning,
one group of guest workers on a farm get into a late night argument when a 3rd group comes in. one guy goes and gets a weapon. gets into a physical fight with someone that wasn't even fighting with him in the beginning, the the guy stabbed was killed.
it was wrong.
shouldn't have happened.
probably alcohol caused.
the original article says NOTHING about legal or illegal status. since they were housed on the farm, we do know they were guest workers.
Thanks Dee, for your very opportune and fast informations. I don't know what I would do without your wonderful blog. The Best on Immigration !
ReplyDeleteA racist justice system has been pampering some coward murderers. Racist Judge, Racist Prosecutors, Racist Jury and a very Racist Town that celebrates Cowardice, Terrorism and Murder.
But things are changing now that the Justice Department has intervened to avoid Impunity in a very scandolous crime and murder.
Luis Ramirez, a small man, was killed by Six Football Players, in Shenandoah Pennsylvania in July 2008. He was going home.
"While the men yelled racial epithets at Ramirez, they punched and kicked his head and body so severely that he lay foaming at the mouth with two skull fractures.
Once Ramirez was on the ground he was continually kicked until brain matter leaked from his skull."
The behaviour of many people in Shenandoah Pennsylvania after the coward act has been extremely despicable and racist.
The Hate Merchants of Fox News and other Hate Media silenced all information on this case and some other similar cases.
Now Cowardice, Sadism, Brutality and Cruelty are going to be prosecuted in a Serious Court. A country fighting Terrorism should not allow Domestic Terrorism, Brutal Executions and Lynchings by Racists.
Thanks God for giving us the Internet and the Blogs, where we can fight against the silence imposed by the Media Moguls and their Hate Merchant Servants. They give all news in a framework of bias, unfair and unbalanced.
That is Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Many Other Hypocrites ...
Raciality.com
Vicente Duque
Yeah MMPete, I wondered when someone would bring that crap up from the ALICRAP site.
ReplyDeleteIt's not quite as reported. A buncha punks standing around trading insults with each other and things got outta hand.
You're getting as bad a Whining Willy, trying to justify one crime on the back of another.
Crimes, crime and murder is murder, without regard to who it is.
Pcorn, my point was about a crime committed because English was being spoken rather than English. The news article linked in this topic said exactly that also. I'm not the one who tried to deny that fact. I merely pointed that out but for some odd reason my post pointing that out was not posted. Hmm. Guess the truth was too painful?
ReplyDeleteCorrection to my prior post. "English was being spoken rather than Spanish." The murderer objected to that.
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