El Diario NY

Pennsylvania police officers, including the police chief of Shenandoah, Pa., abandoned their duty to uphold the law and instead aided and abetted the teenagers who brutally attacked Luis Ramirez. We welcome the federal indictments of these officers and those responsible for beating a man to death for little other reason than because he was Latino.

Corrupt police officers helped defendants charged with the hateful murder of Ramírez. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says they deliberately undermined an investigation and fair process. This outrageous misconduct resonates with a shameful past we thought this country had left behind: Mississippi-is-burning justice, in which local officers were complicit in the lynchings of blacks.

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