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...June 11 did it become a hunting ground for a roving pack of sexual aggressors? How did four or five dozen guys, some obviously drunk and stoned, get away with groping and in some cases stripping as many as 47 women during the festivities of Puerto Rican Day? What happened to the new New York City...
This time the suspects, according to one of their lawyers, "were there chillin', smokin' a couple cigarettes and watchin' the babes go by." The Puerto Rican parade had developed a reputation as a great place for folks to ogle, since it usually falls on a hot day when people dress light and splash themselves to stay cool. Men had doused women with water in the past too. "Why do you think so many guys were out there with video cameras?" asks Gordon Ludwig, an attorney representing one of the first men arrested. But this year, Ludwig says, "it was like...
...town this day," said Elizabeth Mason, a civil rights attorney who represents sexual-abuse victims. "Every day I'm vigilant about my personal safety, and most women here feel that. But there are certain events that I stay away from, and this parade is one." Past Puerto Rican parades have brought complaints of groping, but not on this scale. Much of the anger appeared to be aimed at Latino macho culture, but in a city where diversity is part of the ideological dictate, few pinpointed the blame so starkly...
...YORK--Chances are, by now you've heard about the Central Park attacks during the Puerto Rican Day Parade--and probably forgotten about them too. Let me refresh your memory: Near the end of the June 11 parade, more than 50 women were sprayed with water, groped, robbed and in some cases sexually assaulted by a gang of men in a crowded Central Park in broad daylight, while police officers allegedly looked on and refused to help the victims...
...classroom filled with Hispanic children. And late last week in New York City, his campaign released its first television ads of the general election--ads starring GEORGE P. BUSH, the candidate's charismatic 23-year-old Mexican-American nephew, in a direct pitch to New York's Puerto Rican voting bloc. The star turn will not be his last. "You're going to be seeing a lot more of him," beams a campaign adviser...