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Joye Brown: In fighting hate crime, Levy must lead the way

Joye Brown

Newsday columnist Joye Brown

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

The encounter between Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and the family of Marcelo Lucero in church on Sunday was awkward, to say the least.

Levy had to know that both sides would be uncomfortable.

Because Levy also knows that he has been blamed for contributing to an atmosphere in Suffolk that his harshest critics contend led directly to the Ecuadorean immigrant's death.

Levy...

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