Crime

Mexican Man Sorry for Brutally Beating Parking Attendant After Video Goes Viral

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A wealthy Mexican man apologized this week for beating a parking attendant who refused to show him where to find the jack in his car, the latest in a run of class- and race-discrimination scandals that have drawn outrage in Mexico.

Ademar Gonzalez, the lawyer for parking attendant Hugo Enrique Vera, said Miguel Sacal, the man who beat his client at a luxury apartment building, has agreed to apologize and pay damages for the beating.

Vera said two of his front teeth were broken in the beating, which happened July 8 but didn’t come to public attention until a video of the incident was posted on social networking sites Tuesday. Gonzalez did not reveal the amount of the damage payment.

“Mr. Sacal committed outrageous acts that should never happen to anyone, but Hugo Enrique chose the course of legal action to resolve the conflict,” Gonzalez wrote in a statement, adding that his client “is grateful for the support of so many Mexicans.”

That support was visible Wednesday, both among the general public and from authorities.

Governmental human rights and anti-discrimination officials said that apart from the assault itself, Sacal could face charges for discrimination. Subtitles on the video, which has no audio track, suggest Sacal called the parking attendant a “cat” — insulting Mexican slang that means roughly “flunky.”

Sacal also purportedly shouted “indios” at employees at his luxury apartment building in an exclusive Mexico City neighborhood, an insulting term meaning “Indians.”

Discrimination for economic or racial reasons is against the law in Mexico City.

At least a half-dozen Facebook pages against Sacal were registered Tuesday and Wednesday, many with unprintable user names, but some with names like “Jail for Miguel Sacal” and “Everybody Against Miguel Moises Sacal.”

Some users on networking sites were urging boycotts of clothing stores reportedly owned by Sacal.

Vera filed a criminal complaint against Sacal charging him with causing injuries; Sacal is facing trial on the charges but is not in jail, because he got a court injunction against arrest — a tactic frequently used by wealthy defendants in Mexico to avoid jail.

According to the crime report, Sacal asked Vera to show him where the jack for his car was, which Vera interpreted as a request to fix Sacal’s flat tire. Vera said he told Sacal the jack was in the trunk of his car, but he couldn‘t leave his post because he had to be available to park other residents’ cars.

On the video, Sacal — apparently enraged by the reply — repeatedly slaps and punches Vera and slams his head around, as other employees make half-hearted attempts to separate the two or simply stand by.

Vega later said he felt powerless and took the beating because he was afraid of losing his job. But he later filed a crime report against Sacal.

In a letter sent to local media, Sacal offered an apology for his behavior, but both he and Gonzalez said the criminal case against Sacal would go ahead.

“The incident that has been made public shows me performing reproachable acts,” Sacal wrote. “I was under a lot of pressure, which does not justify my actions.”

“I am very ashamed,” he wrote. “I am aware that my behavior was not acceptable. For that reason I am undergoing psychological therapy.”

It was the latest in a series of discrimination incidents that have opened wounds in Mexico, which has an extremely unequal distribution of income, with about 47 million of its 112.7 million people living in poverty while the country also boasts of being home to the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim.

In December, the daughter of the leading contender for Mexico’s presidency, Enrique Pena Nieto, retweeted a message calling her father’s critics a “bunch of idiots who form part of the proletariat.” That led many of Pena Nieto’s opponents to don placards reading “I’m a proletarian, too.”

In August, two upper middle-class women drew widespread anger when they were caught on video snobbily insulting, shoving and slapping a Mexico City cop, insulting his mother and calling him a “crappy wage slave.” With most municipal police having dark skin and earning an average of only about 4,000 pesos ($300) a month, the sight of a taller, light-skinned woman spewing some of the worst verbal insults in the Mexican lexicon caused anger.

The women were later charged with resisting officers, insulting authorities and discrimination.

Comments (31)

  • Hausmaus
    Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:10pm

    Here in the wonderfull sunshine state of Florida we are allowed to legally carry a (registered) concealed weapon. The stand your ground law that exists here would have allowed a concealed carry person to unload ten 9 mil rounds through this man’s skull. In other words if you are plannng to come to Florida, and perform one of these acts, be fore warned that you could very well get your head full of lead.

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  • grannyrecipe
    Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:13am

    My goodness, and calling people “cats” and “injuns”?

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  • Platonician
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:26pm

    The most twisted part of these people is that such latin rich guys like that bastard when they come to the USA they support the left and will exploit affirmative action each time they can. They will call you a racists for whatever reason.

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  • ThoreauHD
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:14pm

    Looks like another La Raza member.

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  • HawkEyeTx
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:38pm

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    Who‘s the stupid Mexican dude that stayed at his desk as if nutt’n is going on behind him?

    He should be fired.

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    • Airb0rne4325
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:48pm

      That is the self-preservation “if I don‘t move he won’t see me” technique. That IMO is what is wrong with people today. Don’t get involved, don’t do anything that may get youin trouble, let the authorities handle it, etc. The guy at the beginning with the clipboard should have horse-collared this jackhole and driven him into the ground, but he can’t do that b/c this is a rich guy and he will get fired if he does this. Shameful.

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  • Gamaliel
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:16pm

    I thought this could happen to a poor Mexican only in the US. (Too bad for the victim it didn’t. He would’ve been set for generations.)

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  • zoro51
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:33pm

    mexicans are labeld WET BACKS.. to be mexican n proud DOESNT MEAN BEATING ON ANOTHER use LOGIC have pride in WHOM you are not WHAT U THNK YOU ARE you chide la raza n viva espania yet u act like youre the star of jeffry springer tv show.. DUMB ASS.. apologetic or not really plain truth U SUCK ASS

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  • TexasPeach
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:54am

    Sacal est no bueno por caca.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 5:08pm

    Should have been accompanied by a mariachi band playing…’La Cuckaracha”

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  • roadhog
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 3:41pm

    A 45 would have Helped

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 9:45am

    The POS Sacal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

    Apologies and payin medicas – just does not get it.

    If fat rich guy does not like how the dooman’s attorney is handling things, seems like fat rich guy will just kill them.

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  • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 9:11am

    Most Mexicans living in United States illegally — even while running from our indifferent Federal immigration authorities — have more rights and privileges here than they have in Mexico. It is a joke whenever Mexican officials get self-righteous and try and lecture Americans about how unfairly we treat their poorest citizens once they have illegally entered our country breaking our laws and sponging off the taxpayers. This video is just one example of a type of behavior that has been the norm in Mexico since the Spanish first landed more than 500 years ago. Of course, the Spanish with their intolerant Catholic repression were as gentle as lambs compared to the mass human slaughter offered up by the Aztecs. It is no wonder ten percent of Mexico’s population has come to America. It is a mystery why it’s not even more.

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  • Blitzen
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 9:07am

    Just one question; why didn’t the 3 co-workers of this poor guy not beat the crap out of the telephone using, one armed, middle aged, fat guy?

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:38pm

      Many opportunities to smash this fat ass in the solar-plex, & the guy standing there with the clipboard looked like he was cheering the assault on.

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  • ddg7
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 8:40am

    Mi espanol no es bueno! I thought he was asking about where he could HIJACK a car. Either way it’s the same reaction north of the border. Pendejo, studpid es igual de estúpido. (http://www.microsofttranslator.com/?ref=TThis&from=es-ES&to=en-US)

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  • jungle J
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 8:31am

    this is not about wealthy this is about seeing yourself as an ows’r. type. you owe me.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 8:11am

    I know that this story can’t be true because the school system in Tuscon tells everyone how Mexicans are never biased and do things like this.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 8:01am

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    WOW!!! These Rich Mexicans are almost as Racist, as the Democrate Party…………

    Seal the Border, Round up all the Illegal Mexican’s & ship’em to Iran…….

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    • drago
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Make them swim to iran Spank, a lot of them swam here……

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  • NOBAMA201258
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 8:01am

    If we could just get the mexicans and the muslims to turn on each other we could clean up the USA,but they seem to be holding hands in the obama La Casa Blanco

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 13, 2012 at 8:36am

      If you haven‘t read Ann Coulter’s book “Demonic”, it is a good read and pretty much lays out the history of the liberals. The Mexicans and Muslims may be holding hands now, but they will be disposed of once Obama has his power grab and Congress is no more. 2012, if we actually get to have an election, will be the most important election of our time.

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    • neverending
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:12am

      I’ll vote for that!

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 7:57am

    Discrimination of social standing, NOT of race…Coming soon to America… They are already in place in Mexico. The rich man is being charged with discrimination instead of assault. So if you are rich and you look crooked at a poor man, your a@@ is toast for no other reason that discrimination because you have more money than him…Donald Trump. you had better not give a dirtry look to your doorman…

    The thought police are coming!
    Ron Paul 2012

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 7:51am

    The first thing he should have found , was the lug wrench…

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    • robh
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:29pm

      Exactly mate. Without it though, turn around on the POS and one solar plexis or rib punch and watch big man crumple to the floor. After kicking his ass and sending him to jail, wait for the attorney offers to roll in and choose the best three of them.

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  • SoupSandwich
    Posted on January 13, 2012 at 7:51am

    Que?

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