Latino Kill in Pennsylvania: Luis Ramirez Killers get 9 years ( Last Report for now! )

A Pennsylvania judge sentenced two men to nine years in prison for their involvement in the July 2008 beating death of a Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez.

Brandon Piekarsky, 19, and Derrick Donchak, 25, were convicted of a federal hate crime last October, and were part of a group of white high school students in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, who attacked Ramirez as he was leaving a community festival and shouted racial epithets as they beat him to death.

"The jury found that Mr. Ramirez died as a result of his ethnicity or race," said U.S. District Court Judge Richard Caputo, CBS reported. "This is serious business in America."

Justice Department prosecutor Myesha Braden said Piekarsky and Donchak may not have intended to kill Ramirez, but thought him "somehow worthy of being beaten like a dog in the streets," CBS reported. During the trial the prosecution's witnesses testified that the men, then boys, called him a "spic" and told Ramirez, "This is Shenandoah. This is America. Go back to Mexico." They shouted these obscenities at Ramirez as they beat him up with a piece of metal called a "fist pack," and threw punches and kicks to his head. Ramirez died two days later from his injuries.

Their federal conviction and sentencing comes only after both were both acquitted in May 2009 of their most serious charges—third-degree murder, aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation—by an all-white jury. That's when the federal government stepped in to prosecute the men. Two other teens were convicted of a hate crime under the Fair Housing Act.

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[smokine2001]

spic shouldnt have been here just taking out the trash the gov wont

[stonepown]

wow i bet if a spic hits a white he gets life or nine shots in the head racism