http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim … crime.htmlSuffolk County police have busted the man who left an anti-Hispanic note at the altar of a church.
And the suspect is Hispanic.
Christian Mungia Garcia, 25, was arrested Friday night after hurling a wooden log and a glass bottle at a congregant of the Iglesia Evangelica Refugio de Salvacion in Patchogue. Cops later accused Garcia of leaving the hate-filled note Wednesday at the church.
Garcia was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime, police said. He was arraigned yesterday and due back in court Thursday.
The arrest comes on the heels of a Southern Poverty Law Center report that found Latino immigrants in Suffolk County live in a "climate of fear." Last fall, a gang of teens jumped Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero and stabbed him to death.
Still, Mayor Paul Pontieri said Garcia's hate was fueled by an ongoing dispute with members of the church - and not by race. "If you're in Patchogue ... it seems like every incident is immediately painted as a hate crime," Pontieri said. "All eyes are on Patchogue."
Wow that is a first. Might as well just start charging everyone with hate crimes now.
This also just proves another point, nobody wants immigrants around not even Hispanics.