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Was It Done By One Of Your 'Brothers'?

Image below is from Newsday.com, photo by James Carbone, Christhian Munguia Garcia, is being escorted out of Fifth Precinct in Patchogue. He is charged with hate crimes against the Iglesia Evangelica Refugio de Salvacion Church in Patchogue, New York.

Last week a major, news item on Long Island was about the bias notes left inside a Hispanic church in Patchogue, New York. One of the notes read "Hispanics do not rule. Whites do!" written in Spanish language. If you thought this incident was a 'inside' job so to say you may had been on the right track with police. The notes may had been written by a prospective member of the church, 25 year old Christhian Munguia Garcia who is of Latin decent. He attended the church only once.
Why would Mr Garcia do such a thing against people of his own ethnic make-up? Christhian may had been targeting the pastor, Roberto Sanchez with whom he is having a conflicted relationship with, they may be at odds with each other. The notes may had been written as an result of vengeance to scare the congregation. A week before a drunken Christhian disrupted a church service and he was exited out the building by congregation members.
Late Friday evening, September 5th (on the day it took me nearly three hours to get to Bay Shore by Suffolk bus transportation from Selden/Port Jefferson Station) Mr. With possibly a group of other harassers Garcia approached the departing parishioners of the Iglesia Evangelica Refugio de Salvacion church. Someone in that group smashed a bottle on ground near the church members and threw a log. Fortunately no one got hurt after likely intoxicated Christhian may had let out his angered steam and left them. The church members would not let Mr. Garcia get away.
In short time they caught up with him and held him at bay until the police arrived to make an arrest. The authorities are charging Christhian not only with the assault at the church but also the hate crimes of leaving those notes inside that building. Mr. Garcia is being held as a suspect on $7,500 bail, a lot of pacos. "I don't think he is the person who [wrote and left the notes]," Mr. Sanchez said. Yet the mayor of Patchogue, Paul Pontieri communicated to the New York Post that the incidents are in connection with a religious dispute between Mr. Garcia and Mr. Sanchez. As so this may be one of those internal, church dramas which may not fail to catch the public attention.