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The Federal Government Has Charged Four Police Officers with Covering up Racially Motivated Deadly Beating of a Mexican Immigrant

By Walin & Klarich

The federal government has accused four police officers in orchestrating a cover-up in a deadly beating of a Mexican immigrant by two popular high school football players. The two youths had been charged with a hate crime because during the beating they made racially motivated comments. The U.S. Attorney?s Office has charged the four police officers, including a police chief, with witness and evidence tempering, conspiring to obstruct justice, and lying to the FBI. An all-white jury acquitted one of the high school football players of a third-degree murder and ethnic intimidation, and another defendant was acquitted of aggravated assault. However, the jury convicted both of the defendants of simple assault and sentenced them to terms of six to twenty-three months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).