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  • Wrong side of the law: Inside the alleged police cover-up (beating death of illegal immigrant)

    12/17/2009 3:26:03 AM PST · by Born Conservative · 24 replies · 781+ views
    The Times-Tribune (Scranton PA) ^ | 12/17/09 | Joe McDonald
    Minutes after the last kick and punch were thrown in a fatal beating in a public park in Shenandoah on a summer night in 2008, the cover-up began, federal prosecutors say. Instead of investigating the vicious beating of Luis Ramirez, police officers of the small borough helped the young men conceal evidence and concoct a less-damaging version of what happened that night, advising the young football players that they "needed to get their stories straight" because the man they had just beaten might die, according to an indictment. The Mexican immigrant's last conscious moments were spent hearing "Go back to...
  • Police accused of cover-up in immigrant attack ("Hate crime")

    12/15/2009 7:49:08 PM PST · by Born Conservative · 6 replies · 685+ views
    The Times-Tribune (Scranton PA) ^ | 12/15/09 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM and KATHY MATHESON (Associated Press)
    The Shenandoah police chief and two officers under his command are charged with orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by altering evidence or lying to the FBI in a hate crimes case against two popular football players. The former Shenandoah High School athletes, 19-year-old Derrick Donchak and 18-year-old Brandon Piekarsky, have now been charged with a federal hate crime, accused of beating Luis Ramirez in a park on a night in July 2008 as they headed home from a party, the Justice Department said Tuesday in Washington. State prosecutors who tried unsuccessfully to win ethnic...