Los Angeles Latino Gang Members Convicted of Anti-Black Conspiracy
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THE RACIAL PART WAS DOWNPLAYED NOT THE CRIMES THEMSELVES,THE SHOOTINGS ALL MADE HEADLINES,BUT THE RACIAL PART WAS ALWAYS LEFT OUT ON BOTH SIDES AT FIRST,
NOW THEY ARE ADMITTING ITS A RACIAL WAR,
From January 2004 through June of this year, Baca said, warring gang members in the Florence-Firestone area killed 44 people. About half of those killed had no gang affiliation, he said.
"Violence took a certain turn and became racial war," Baca said at a news conference at sheriff's headquarters, where he was flanked by confiscated weapons and photos of arrested gang members.
"They were going back and forth and killing innocent people on the street," he said. "People were killed only because they were black or they were brown."
Among bystanders killed, Martin said, "One was a 17-year-old boy on his way to work…. Two Hispanics were shot to death because they had a brown sticker on their car, and so they were executed."
In the back of the room where the news conference was held, the wife and children of Gabino Lopez, 52, shot to death in February on his way home from a liquor store, sat quietly. Baca asked them to hold up Lopez's picture — noting that investigators believed that he was "targeted only because he was Hispanic."
Last weekend, on the same street where Lopez was shot, a triple shooting claimed the lives of two teenagers, Pedro Gonzalez, 15, and Anthony Chairez, 17. Another person was wounded. The suspect in that incident was described as Hispanic, according to the sheriff's officials.
Molina called the continuing violence in many communities "intolerable."
"We've just begun," she said of efforts to eradicate gang violence. "Gang wars are going to continue for some time because gangs are so deeply ingrained in some families."
Underscoring her point: On display at the front of the room were oversize depictions of baby items found by deputies for sale on the Internet.
A bib read: "SouthSide Florencia PeeWee In Training."
NOW THEY ARE ADMITTING ITS A RACIAL WAR,
From January 2004 through June of this year, Baca said, warring gang members in the Florence-Firestone area killed 44 people. About half of those killed had no gang affiliation, he said.
"Violence took a certain turn and became racial war," Baca said at a news conference at sheriff's headquarters, where he was flanked by confiscated weapons and photos of arrested gang members.
"They were going back and forth and killing innocent people on the street," he said. "People were killed only because they were black or they were brown."
Among bystanders killed, Martin said, "One was a 17-year-old boy on his way to work…. Two Hispanics were shot to death because they had a brown sticker on their car, and so they were executed."
In the back of the room where the news conference was held, the wife and children of Gabino Lopez, 52, shot to death in February on his way home from a liquor store, sat quietly. Baca asked them to hold up Lopez's picture — noting that investigators believed that he was "targeted only because he was Hispanic."
Last weekend, on the same street where Lopez was shot, a triple shooting claimed the lives of two teenagers, Pedro Gonzalez, 15, and Anthony Chairez, 17. Another person was wounded. The suspect in that incident was described as Hispanic, according to the sheriff's officials.
Molina called the continuing violence in many communities "intolerable."
"We've just begun," she said of efforts to eradicate gang violence. "Gang wars are going to continue for some time because gangs are so deeply ingrained in some families."
Underscoring her point: On display at the front of the room were oversize depictions of baby items found by deputies for sale on the Internet.
A bib read: "SouthSide Florencia PeeWee In Training."
