Lawsuit claims: police beat to death a Hispanic teenager, then hung him to make it appear suicide

[Liberal_in_LA]

:puke:

Pa. police accused of cover-up face abuse suits

SHENANDOAH, Pa. (AP) — A police chief charged with trying to cover up the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by white teenagers was named in a 2006 civil suit that made a startling claim: Borough police beat to death a Hispanic teenager, then hung him from the bars of his holding cell to make it appear a suicide.

Police Chief Matthew Nestor was never charged, but the allegations contained in the lawsuit, in Tuesday's indictment and in other civil claims depict a police department with pervasive hostility to minorities and a penchant for using excessive force.

Police "acted as feudal warlords in this coal town community that people were afraid of," said attorney John Karoly, who represents the parents of 18-year-old David Vega in their federal lawsuit against the borough. "I would not suggest they were not abusive to everyone and anyone, but I would say the pattern certainly starts to appear that minorities took the thrust of their abuse."

The suit names Nestor and Capt. Jamie Gennarini as defendants, as well as the borough of Shenandoah. The officers have denied wrongdoing. A civil trial is scheduled for next summer.

Nestor and two other officers were charged Tuesday with orchestrating a cover-up as the FBI investigated the fatal attack on Luis Ramirez by a group of high school football players. Gennarini and Nestor were indicted separately in a scheme to extort money from illegal gambling operations.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-12-16-Police-cover-up_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

[xultar]

1. Your thread subject is so fucking wrong. Read the article and fix it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. I edited thread title.

[xultar]

5. WAIT A MOMENT...The white kids beat the boy to death, the cops were trying to

cover it up....right?

Nestor and two other officers were charged Tuesday with orchestrating a cover-up as the FBI investigated the fatal attack on Luis Ramirez by a group of high school football players.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Read the article. Lawsuit CLAIMS cop beat him and hung him.

Get off my back.

[xultar]

9. I'm just trying to figure out what the point of the story is. Is it the lawsuit or the fact that

the cops beat the kid.

That is all.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Oh ...ok

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Anyone who comes in here to defend this deserves to be tortured to death

[midnight]

3. Creating the facts.... to fit the situation..... But still there must be caution

because we don't want to believe a pattern of this type of police work is the status quo.... It is a shame.

[xultar]

6. Was it the white teens who beat the kid or the cops? Sounds like the cops to me.

A police chief charged with trying to cover up the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by white teenagers

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Damn.