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U.S. Accuses 4 Gang Members of Hate Crime in Black's Killing
Prosecutor says 1999 slaying was part of a conspiracy to keep African Americans out of turf claimed in Highland Park.
By John Spano, Times Staff Writer
June 29, 2006
A Latino street gang threatened, assaulted, terrorized and murdered black people in Highland Park for six years in an effort to keep them out of their territory, a federal prosecutor alleged Wednesday.
"Kenneth Wilson was killed because he was black, because he was in Highland Park and because the Avenues gang members had promised each other, had agreed that they would drive African Americans out of the neighborhood, by threats, by force, by murder," Assistant U.S. Atty. Alex Bustamante told jurors.
Prosecutors used a federal hate crimes law, based on the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery, to prosecute the defendants, along with conspiracy charges, in Wilson's death.
The defense claimed without success that the federal government has no power to involve itself in a common street crime, such as Wilson's 1999 murder in a car in Highland Park.
The defendants are Gilbert Saldana, Alejandro Martinez, Fernando Cazares and Porfirio Avila. The trial opened under extraordinary security in the Edward R. Roybal Courthouse downtown, with federal officers blanketing all exits from the courtroom.
The defendants sat behind three rising rows of seats opposite the jury, each shackled to the floor.
The restraints were behind an elaborate set of risers that make them invisible to others in the courtroom.
Defense attorney Reuven L. Cohen urged jurors to keep an open mind and to reject testimony from three former Avenues gang members who he said turned government informants to curry favor with prosecutors.
One of them, David Cruz, a convicted, deported felon who was brought into the U.S. to testify for the government, was at the center of a series of hearings before U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson leading up to the trial.
The alleged conspiracy included multiple assaults on blacks, and prosecutors said they have linked two other killings to the scheme.
"They wanted all blacks out of that neighborhood, not just African American men, not just African American gang members but all African American women and children," Bustamante said.
Cohen said the crimes sprang in part from racial prejudice "that exists in every pocket of every corner of every part of our city."
Prosecutor says 1999 slaying was part of a conspiracy to keep African Americans out of turf claimed in Highland Park.
By John Spano, Times Staff Writer
June 29, 2006
A Latino street gang threatened, assaulted, terrorized and murdered black people in Highland Park for six years in an effort to keep them out of their territory, a federal prosecutor alleged Wednesday.
"Kenneth Wilson was killed because he was black, because he was in Highland Park and because the Avenues gang members had promised each other, had agreed that they would drive African Americans out of the neighborhood, by threats, by force, by murder," Assistant U.S. Atty. Alex Bustamante told jurors.
Prosecutors used a federal hate crimes law, based on the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery, to prosecute the defendants, along with conspiracy charges, in Wilson's death.
The defense claimed without success that the federal government has no power to involve itself in a common street crime, such as Wilson's 1999 murder in a car in Highland Park.
The defendants are Gilbert Saldana, Alejandro Martinez, Fernando Cazares and Porfirio Avila. The trial opened under extraordinary security in the Edward R. Roybal Courthouse downtown, with federal officers blanketing all exits from the courtroom.
The defendants sat behind three rising rows of seats opposite the jury, each shackled to the floor.
The restraints were behind an elaborate set of risers that make them invisible to others in the courtroom.
Defense attorney Reuven L. Cohen urged jurors to keep an open mind and to reject testimony from three former Avenues gang members who he said turned government informants to curry favor with prosecutors.
One of them, David Cruz, a convicted, deported felon who was brought into the U.S. to testify for the government, was at the center of a series of hearings before U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson leading up to the trial.
The alleged conspiracy included multiple assaults on blacks, and prosecutors said they have linked two other killings to the scheme.
"They wanted all blacks out of that neighborhood, not just African American men, not just African American gang members but all African American women and children," Bustamante said.
Cohen said the crimes sprang in part from racial prejudice "that exists in every pocket of every corner of every part of our city."
San Bernardino police Wednesday arrested a teenager accused of shooting and killing an 11-year-old boy who was at a neighborhood schoolyard playing basketball with his friends and two brothers last week.
James Lamont Bagsby, 15, of San Bernardino has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Anthony Michael Ramirez. Bagsby also faces a count of attempted murder in the wounding of Ramirez's 13-year-old brother Joseph, and eight to nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly shooting at the other children on the basketball court.
John P. Kochis, chief deputy district attorney in San Bernardino County, said Bagsby will be tried as an adult and could be sentenced to life in state prison if convicted on all counts.
"We feel, based on the crime that was committed, that this individual is a danger to the community and should be held responsible as an adult," Kochis said.
San Bernardino school police received a tip to Bagsby's location Wednesday morning, and officers surrounded an apartment at the Arbor Courts complex, less than three miles from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, where the shootings occurred.
Police said Bagsby had been seen in the apartment and was taken into custody without a struggle. A regional manhunt for Bagsby was launched shortly after the June 21 shooting.
At a news conference in front of San Bernardino City Hall on Wednesday, Mayor Pat Morris praised the cooperation between police detectives, school police and the person who provided information about the suspect.
"I'm confident that this continuing collaboration will discourage others from similar acts of tragic misconduct," Morris said.
"I send from this city a warning to all who would come to us, as Mr. Bagsby did, with the intent of doing harm: We will find you. We will take you into custody and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. Do not come to our city."
Morris said Bagsby had been in a group home for juveniles in Victorville, and was missing from the facility at the time of the shooting. Morris said he could not disclose why Bagsby had been detained in the home because Bagsby is a juvenile.
On the evening of June 21, Bagsby allegedly approached the group of boys at the school, asking them where they were from and whether they were part of a San Bernardino gang, which they said they were not.
A short time later, Bagsby pulled a handgun from his waist and began shooting, striking Anthony Ramirez in the back and Joseph Ramirez in the right hand, witnesses said.
Police said the Ramirez boys were not involved with gangs and that the attack was unprovoked.
Bagsby was scheduled to be arraigned in San Bernardino today and was being held at San Bernardino Juvenile Hall.
Police are still searching for a suspect in another homicide and investigating two others that occurred in the last week.
They are seeking Keith Warren Thomas, 22, in the June 24 death of 16-year-old Traveil Williams in a dispute over a cellphone as Williams stood outside his apartment in the 400 block of Orange Street.
They have no suspects in the deaths of Hyven Howard, 29, and Charmaine Sweatt, 28, who were found dead Monday of multiple gunshot wounds in their home in the 1500 block Pumalo Street.
Police said there have been 34 homicides in the city this year — 31 that were crimes and three justifiable homicides. There were 58 homicides last year.
James Lamont Bagsby, 15, of San Bernardino has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Anthony Michael Ramirez. Bagsby also faces a count of attempted murder in the wounding of Ramirez's 13-year-old brother Joseph, and eight to nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly shooting at the other children on the basketball court.
John P. Kochis, chief deputy district attorney in San Bernardino County, said Bagsby will be tried as an adult and could be sentenced to life in state prison if convicted on all counts.
"We feel, based on the crime that was committed, that this individual is a danger to the community and should be held responsible as an adult," Kochis said.
San Bernardino school police received a tip to Bagsby's location Wednesday morning, and officers surrounded an apartment at the Arbor Courts complex, less than three miles from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, where the shootings occurred.
Police said Bagsby had been seen in the apartment and was taken into custody without a struggle. A regional manhunt for Bagsby was launched shortly after the June 21 shooting.
At a news conference in front of San Bernardino City Hall on Wednesday, Mayor Pat Morris praised the cooperation between police detectives, school police and the person who provided information about the suspect.
"I'm confident that this continuing collaboration will discourage others from similar acts of tragic misconduct," Morris said.
"I send from this city a warning to all who would come to us, as Mr. Bagsby did, with the intent of doing harm: We will find you. We will take you into custody and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. Do not come to our city."
Morris said Bagsby had been in a group home for juveniles in Victorville, and was missing from the facility at the time of the shooting. Morris said he could not disclose why Bagsby had been detained in the home because Bagsby is a juvenile.
On the evening of June 21, Bagsby allegedly approached the group of boys at the school, asking them where they were from and whether they were part of a San Bernardino gang, which they said they were not.
A short time later, Bagsby pulled a handgun from his waist and began shooting, striking Anthony Ramirez in the back and Joseph Ramirez in the right hand, witnesses said.
Police said the Ramirez boys were not involved with gangs and that the attack was unprovoked.
Bagsby was scheduled to be arraigned in San Bernardino today and was being held at San Bernardino Juvenile Hall.
Police are still searching for a suspect in another homicide and investigating two others that occurred in the last week.
They are seeking Keith Warren Thomas, 22, in the June 24 death of 16-year-old Traveil Williams in a dispute over a cellphone as Williams stood outside his apartment in the 400 block of Orange Street.
They have no suspects in the deaths of Hyven Howard, 29, and Charmaine Sweatt, 28, who were found dead Monday of multiple gunshot wounds in their home in the 1500 block Pumalo Street.
Police said there have been 34 homicides in the city this year — 31 that were crimes and three justifiable homicides. There were 58 homicides last year.
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Please, everyone knows that ya'll can't hold ya'll own down there and them immigrants are pushin ya'll back, slappin ya'll up something crazy. It ain't never been like that in the Bay, we fucks with the real latinos, plus we're deep out here so wouldn't nobody start no crazy ass shit, talkin bout kill all the blacks in Oakland and San Quentin, that just sounds silly. Don't know about bloods and crips but up here, BGF and 415 KUMI got shit on lock, along with the nortes, they coo coz Nortes are more cultured and have better ideals. Nortes are pro-American, Scraps are fuckin NAZIs. fuck the beaner brothers. Ya'll need to fuck with us coz ya'll need some help, you niggas gettin ya'll asses busted everyday in the pen and smacked up in the streets. Bloods and Crips don't hold no weight in the prison system, the major five prison gangs are La EME(Mexican Mafia), Nuestra Familia(Northern Mexicans), the Aryan Brotherhood, BGF(Black Guerilla Family), and the Nazi Low Riders.. BGF recruits crips, bloods, and 415s. The niggas need to unite against the aryans and the scraps, coz bloods and crips ain't gonna work. But ya'll can't help it, coz BGF is bigger in San Quinten than it is in Soledad or any jail/prison down there. But you talkin like you're a part of the war though. You must of got butt rapped by one of those La EMEs huh? Hahahahaha!
LOL oh shit, yous a funny one! some of these "nortenos" are washed up mex. that can't speak a single sentence in spanish or don't even know what state in mexico their from or can't even trace their own heritage. I'm not speaking on all nortenos but the majority. Ask a norteno when was the last time they went to mexico and they'll probably say one of two things 1."never", 2."been there when i was younger". Nortenos are prejudice against their own race and it's sad times but nothing new.
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first of all , JOSHUA u fucin faggot ass whiteboy from kansas, u been exposed in BART already , but let me address this gay ass shit, lol @ nortes r more cultured , wtf is that? thats some str8 up gay ass homosexual shit more cultured? nigga u sound like martha stewart or some shit fucin fag lolll!!!
u dont know shit but tha articles u read and wikipedia thats tha only source of tha streets u got Josh roflll
LOL @ bloods and Crips dont hold no weight in tha prison system, muthafuca u ever been to prison? 415 is str8 up bitches in tha prison system they r tha weakest gang in tha prison system, as far as blacs go Crips is runnin thangs, stop typin tha gangs u learned about in sociology class Josh u fucin nerd, bloods and crips r in san quentin too dumbass, it dont matter if the prison is up north that dont mean only north california niggaz go to prisons in tha north and south california niggaz go to prisons in southern california, the location of tha prison dont matter u fucin idiot rofl, theres niggaz from LA all up in Pelican Bay and thats way up in tha northern california area next to oregan, this shit just shows yo nerdy ass need to do some more internet research u fucin fag,
lets have a recap tho for those of ya'll out tha loop
DaSlimDicReaper File
Real Name: Joshua
Hometown: Kansas
Sex: M+F
Comments: muthafuca didnt know wut Yay area meant 2 months ago, and he supposedly live in tha Bay.............
Misdemeanors/Felonies: j-walked accross telegraph ave. @ 9 pm, as to his defense he was stated saying "i gotta be home mommy is going to kill me!"
first of all , JOSHUA u fucin faggot ass whiteboy from kansas, u been exposed in BART already , but let me address this gay ass shit, lol @ nortes r more cultured , wtf is that? thats some str8 up gay ass homosexual shit more cultured? nigga u sound like martha stewart or some shit fucin fag lolll!!!
u dont know shit but tha articles u read and wikipedia thats tha only source of tha streets u got Josh roflll
LOL @ bloods and Crips dont hold no weight in tha prison system, muthafuca u ever been to prison? 415 is str8 up bitches in tha prison system they r tha weakest gang in tha prison system, as far as blacs go Crips is runnin thangs, stop typin tha gangs u learned about in sociology class Josh u fucin nerd, bloods and crips r in san quentin too dumbass, it dont matter if the prison is up north that dont mean only north california niggaz go to prisons in tha north and south california niggaz go to prisons in southern california, the location of tha prison dont matter u fucin idiot rofl, theres niggaz from LA all up in Pelican Bay and thats way up in tha northern california area next to oregan, this shit just shows yo nerdy ass need to do some more internet research u fucin fag,
lets have a recap tho for those of ya'll out tha loop
DaSlimDicReaper File
Real Name: Joshua
Hometown: Kansas
Sex: M+F
Comments: muthafuca didnt know wut Yay area meant 2 months ago, and he supposedly live in tha Bay.............
Misdemeanors/Felonies: j-walked accross telegraph ave. @ 9 pm, as to his defense he was stated saying "i gotta be home mommy is going to kill me!"
how the fuck can u say nortenos are prejudice against there own race?? i think by saying "they never been to mexico or speak spanish so they arent really mexican" is hating on your own race more then anything u stupid fuck. skraps are pro-nazi so your beating a dead horse on trying to claim nortenoz hate their own race when yall work with muffuccas who openly say they hate us for our skin color.. fuckin idiots these dayz...
skraps are the brown version of nazi's.. couldnt co-exist with shit cept other nazi's..i speak for myself when i say im not about into the color of somebodies skin cuz itz somebodies brain that makes them a fuckin ignorant dipshit.. and ive always been anti-dumb fuck
skraps are the brown version of nazi's.. couldnt co-exist with shit cept other nazi's..i speak for myself when i say im not about into the color of somebodies skin cuz itz somebodies brain that makes them a fuckin ignorant dipshit.. and ive always been anti-dumb fuck
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Hahahahahaha!! I started laughing hella hard when I read this shit! Atleast get one fact right when you try to expose someone Wattsup, a.k.a Watts, a.k.a, Watts2006, a.k.a East Side Rydah, a.k.a FleaJ K, a.k.a who the fuck knows what other aliases you've had coz you've been banned from here like 8 times since I've registered. You supposedly live in Watts but you got punked by some norte nigga on here from Hayward who was gonna come to Vallejo(your real home) and beat your 17 year old ass. Yes, this nigga is 17 years old!! Your Bitrthday is June, 10th, 1989! And your real name is Patrick! You never lived in Watts either, you grew up on Magazine street in Vallejo! See, I have real facts, you don't.. They posted this nigga's picture in a similar thread and he looks like a retard with down syndrome.
Flea J K a.k.a Watts 2006..
Hahahahahaha!! Fuckin fag..
Btw, this isn't Joshua, Patrick! Hahahaha.