Fernando Mateo, left, the president of Hispanics Across America, speaks to the media as attorney Kevin Faga listens in front of Brooklyn Federal Court in New York, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Mateo and Faga were announcing that the estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed in a 2008 confrontation with a mob of teens in in Patchogue, Long Island has filed a $40 million federal civil rights lawsuit. The suit filed Monday claims local police and elected officials allowed an atmosphere of violence against Hispanics until it culminated in the death of Marcelo Lucero. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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