This photo released by the Suffolk County Police Department in Patchouge, N.Y. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009 shows Matthew J. Mont. Mont, 16, is charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime in the Aug. 14 assault of an Ecuadorian man who was beaten and robbed in the same neighborhood where another immigrant died in a notorious bias attack in 2008. (AP Photo/Suffolk County Police Department)
A filmmaker is tackling a timely subject on Long Island: bias crimes.
James Garcia, an Ecuadorian immigrant, is filming “Taught to Hate” on Thursday in Farmingdale. Garcia says he hopes the movie will teach children tolerance.
The U.S. Justice Department has been investigating bias crimes on eastern Long Island.
This week, two teenagers were charged with a hate crime in the robbery and beating of an Ecuadorean man. It happened just steps away from where another immigrant died last year in a notorious bias attack.
No release date for “Taught to Hate” has been announced.
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