For a week, media from around the world have turned their sights on Patchogue. On Suffolk County. Once again, Suffolk County on Long Island has made news with the beating death of a young Latino day laborer by seven local high school students who decided that they wanted to go out and, according to Newsday, "beat up some Mexicans."
County Executive Steve Levy who, since he came into office has fought long and hard to demonize Latino immigrants, appearing on Lou Dobbs, attempting to deputize local authorities and introducing legislation to make English the official language of the country, declared that had the lynching occurred in neighboring Nassau County, it would have been a "one-day story" (he has since "apologized" for his comments).
We've learned a lot about Lucero, a 38-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant who entered the country on a visa and lived in Patchogue for 16 years. And about his family. On Friday, Lucero's brother let a reporter from a Spanish-language television network up into his bedroom. She reported that Lucero had a U.S. flag draped around a big television screen. And a Pink Floyd poster ("Just Another Brick in the Wall") hanging nearby.
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