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NCLR Condemns Brutal Hate Crime on Long Island

Article from: Targeted News Service Article date: November 10, 2008

The National Council of La Raza issued the following news release:

Calling it, "an outrageous and horrifying crime," Janet Murguia, President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned the beating death of a Long Island man on Saturday night. Marcello Lucero a 37 year-old man from Patchogue, Long Island, was the apparent victim of a hate crime by seven teenagers who were arraigned today for his murder. According to Newsday, Suffolk County police say that the defendants "simply wanted to beat up someone who ...

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Game Over for Teens 'Acting Out' Grand Theft Auto

Posted Jun 27, 08 2:50 AM CDT in US,  Technology,  Crime & Courts 

Game Over for Teens 'Acting Out' Grand Theft Auto
Source: AP Photo/Rockstar Games

(Newser) – Six bored Long Island teenagers have been busted for acting out the violent themes of the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto IV with a real life spree of break-ins, a mugging, a beating and a carjacking, police charge. "These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality," a detective told the New York Post. "It was quite alarming."

Source: New York Post

More about:  crime • Long Island • Grand Theft Auto IV • juvenile crime • carjacking • video violence • mugging

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(Newser) - MSNBC Morning Joe co-anchor Mika Brzezinski “was very scared” when she was mugged early this morning outside a Washington hotel, the Post reports. As she waited for a car, a man approached her and said, “Give me your money and you won’t get hurt.” Brzezinski gave him the only money she had: $6—though he asked for $20. More »

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And more lawsuits coming over Black Friday trampling on Long Island

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(AP) - The family of the Wal-Mart temp worker who was trampled to death by a Black Friday stampede has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in New York's state Supreme Court against the retailer and the Long Island mall where the store is located. The family also filed notice that Nassau County, on Long Island, and its police department will be sued. More »

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Good Samaritan Hits Thief With Frozen Fowl

Hobbled robber flees
in car before police track him down

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(Newser) - A man armed with a frozen turkey helped hobble a carjacker yesterday in a North Carolina town, the News & Observer reports. The rescuer battered a crook as he attacked a woman in a grocery store parking lot. The robber jumped in her car, smashing into parked vehicles, and was soon pulled over by police. The woman sustained "fairly serious" injuries, police said, but was released from hospital. More »

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Take-Two Interactive: Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV Breaks Entertainment... (Wireless News)

Grand Theft Auto IV: A brutal new world (Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current))

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV IS IN PLAY (The Boston Globe)

Grand Theft Auto IV (The Press)

Grand Theft Auto IV hits record of $500m sales in first week (The Independent - London)

Grand Theft Auto IV: Joyride (Scotland on Sunday)

'Grand Theft Auto IV' is alive, addictive (Deseret News (Salt Lake City))

Outrage over 'Grand Theft Auto IV' seems exceedingly overblown (Deseret News (Salt Lake City))

Grand Theft Auto IV is pulled from Thai shops after killing of taxi driver (The Independent - London)

ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH OFFERS INFORMATION REGARDING RELEASE OF VIDEO GAME GRAND... (US Fed News Service, Including US State News)


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