Six months after a Schuylkill County Pennsylvania jury acquitted two teens of aggravated assault and murder in the date of Luis Ramirez, three officers were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in the investigation of Ramirez’ death.  Ramirez, a Mexican immigrant, was beaten into a coma during a street brawl in Shenandoah in July 2008.  Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor, Lt. William Moyer, and Officer Jason Hayes allegedly failed to “memorialize or record” statements made by the teens involved in the beating death, and “wrote false and misleading reports that intentionally omitted information about the true nature of the assault and the investigation.”  Moyer faces additional charges of witness and evidence tampering and making false statements to the FBI.  Each officer could face 20 years in prison on each of the obstruction charges and additional 5 years on conspiring to obstruct justice.  Moyer could face another 5 years if convicted of making false statements to the FBI.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/15/hate.crime/index.html

Tags: civil rights, police abuse, Police Misconduct

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