As President Trump paints illegal immigrants
as public safety threats, let’s talk about how white supremacist gangs
terrorize immigrants and gays.
On Nov. 8, 2008, Marcelo Lucero, an
Ecuadorian immigrant, was murdered in the town of Patchogue, N.Y. Police say a
gang of teenagers who called themselves the Caucasian Crew were responsible for
the killing.
They target Latino residents as part
of a sport they termed “beaner-hopping.”
White-member gangs also use “curb
stomping” for an initiation rite.
Featured in a 1998 movie, American
History X, this intensely violent act is called a curb stomp, also curbing,
curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb.
It begins by confronting a suspected immigrant or gay person on a street.
The victim is forced to the ground.
His mouth is forcefully opened on a curb. Usually, a gang member holds down
the victim's head.
The attacker stomps on the victim’s
head from behind, causing severe injuries and sometimes death.
In the picture above, Dane Hall, 20,
lost six teeth, suffered a broken jaw in multiple places and a piece of broken
bone was shoved into his brain during an attack while he was leaving Club Sound
in Salt Lake City on Friday night, Aug. 26, 2011. Hall is openly gay and
believes the attack was a hate crime. He said his attackers uttered gay slurs
during the assault.
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