3 police officers among 5 people indicted in race-related beating.!!!

Five people, including three police officers, have been indicted in the fatal race-related beating of a Latino man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.


"The evidence suggests that Mr. Ramirez was targeted, beaten and killed because he was Mexican," Read more on this sad story..


Two indictments charge the five with federal hate crime charges, as well as obstruction of justice and conspiracy, authorities said in a written statement. A federal grand jury handed up the indictments last week, and they were unsealed Tuesday.

Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky are charged with a hate crime for beating Luis Ramirez in July 2008 while shouting racial epithets at him, according to the department. Ramirez died two days later.

Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor and two other officers are charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in the Ramirez investigation.

Nestor, Moyer and Hayes intentionally failed to "memorialize or record" statements made by Piekarsky about the incident, the indictment said, and "wrote false and misleading official reports that memorialized false statements by the persons involved in the racially motivated assault ... and that intentionally omitted information about the true nature of the assault and the investigation."

If convicted on the hate crime charges, Donchak and Piekarsky face a maximum penalty of up to life in prison. Donchak also faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted of obstruction, and an additional five years for conspiring to obstruct justice.

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