seems like most everyone

BUT the police knew about the attacks and harassment

why people, especially younger people (teenagers and very young adults) do this so very often is beyond me. are they frightened by people who aren't EXACTLY like them (on the outside that is. they'd be shocked to learn we're all just about the same on the inside)? i know several people from central and south america. there's quite a little community in the greater hartford area. in general terms they are just like me (except they work WAY more hours than i do and i work over 40 as it is)

we are NEVER going to fix things like gaza or somalia or the like if we can't fix what is wrong with our own darn selves. immoral, amoral, evil, afraid, ignorant, cowardly is what some of us are

Latinos Recall Pattern of Attacks Before Long Island Killing
By ANNE BARNARD
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — Carlos Orellana, a construction worker from Ecuador, was walking home from work in this small Long Island town on July 14, he said, when about a dozen teenage boys on bicycles knocked him to the ground and kicked and beat him, shouting, “Go back to Mexico.” Mr. Orellana, 39, said he lost consciousness, and when he came to, his shoes and $20 were missing. He called the police. He said he recognized some of the boys, who often hung around Main Street. But the mug shots the police showed him were no help. The police classified the case as a second-degree robbery, he said, and no one was arrested.

Attacks like the one Mr. Orellana reported have drawn new attention since Marcelo Lucero, another Ecuadorean immigrant, was stabbed to death on Nov. 8 near Main Street. Prosecutors say seven 16- and 17-year-old boys, mostly from neighboring Medford, were attacking Mr. Lucero when one of them rushed at him with a knife. The attacks were such an established pastime that the youths, who have pleaded not guilty, had a casual and derogatory term for it, “beaner hopping.” One of the youths told the authorities, “I don’t go out doing this very often, maybe once a week.”......