Posted on 03/18/2007 9:08:21 AM PDT by blam
Gang mayhem grips LA
A bloody conflict between Hispanic and black gangs is spreading across Los Angeles. Hundreds are dying as whole districts face the threat of ethnic cleansing. Paul Harris reports from the epicentre of America's new urban warfare
Sunday March 18, 2007
The Observer (UK)
Father Greg Boyle keeps a grim count of the young gang members he has buried. Number 151 was Jonathan Hurtado, 18 - fresh out of jail. Now the kindly, bearded Jesuit mourns him. 'The day he got out I found him a job. He never missed a day. He was doing really well,' Boyle says. But Hurtado made a mistake: he went back to his old neighbourhood in east Los Angeles. While sitting in a park, Hurtado was approached by a man on a bike who said to him: 'Hey, homie, what's up?' He then shot Hurtado four times. 'You can't come back. Not even for a visit,' says Boyle, who has worked for two decades against LA's gang culture.
Boyle's Los Angeles, where daily slaughter is a grim reality, is a world away from the glamorous Hollywood hills, Malibu beaches and Sunset Strip - the celebrity-drenched city that David Beckham and Posh Spice will soon make their home. Boyle's Los Angeles is where an estimated 120,000 gang members across five counties battle over turf, pride and drugs. It is a city of violence as a new race war escalates between new Hispanic gangs and older black groups, each trying to ethnically cleanse the other. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has referred to his city as 'the gang capital of America', has launched a crackdown on the new threat.
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I object to these Brits criticizing our multicultural paradise.
The gangs are merely struggling to determine which group will get to sack America, obtain the best women and the most productive slaves.
Civil War in the USA alert.
As long as they are killing each other, who cares?
Gee, I wonder how that happened?
yes and why stop prison riots
QUAGMIRE! Defund the police now!
"I object to these Brits criticizing our multicultural paradise.'
Yeah! It's just our disaffected "youths" expressing their dissatisfaction in being left behind by the capitalist oligarchy.
Cool! Our version of the Roman Holiday, but instead of lions ripping up Chistians in the coluseum, it's worthless gangbangers offing one another for our own entertainment.
Yup, this would be a great way of cleaning out our trash. Let the scum cancel each other out. And let Ho-wood make some cash off of it.
Pictures of most wanted in Washington DC
Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA Up until a couple of weeks ago the nationality of the perps was listed. They were all foreign and mostly mexican.
Darwinism works.
That is really scarey.
I wonder why this reporter doesn't title an article "Islamofascist Violence Threatens Great Britain/Europe"? Frightened maybe?
as I recall (my memory is so bad I don't remember what I had for breakfast this mornin), LA had a CRASH unit that was relatively effective at "preventative maintenance" on these gang members and the rate of murders etc. actually either dropped or stopped rising, but fears of "civil rights" violations and accusations of police brutality by the LEFT forced LA to disband this unit..
these gang members are no better than the terrorists in iraq..they pop out of nowhere, do their shooting/killing then slink away..
while I agree that as long as they kill themselves it's much ado about nothing, there are plenty, plenty of innocent people caught up in the violence..
Then they'd accuse us of calling the kettle black. And we would be, given the amount of Islamic immigration we've encouraged over the past 25 years.
"Father Greg Boyle keeps a grim count of the young gang members he has buried."
Fireone wonders how we can encourage them to increase the
count and clean up the streets sooner.
No difference between these thugs and islamofacists. The sooner they're gone, the better.
I say treat the gangs in LA like we treat the Palestinians.
Send both sides money for more guns so they can do the job on each other right.
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