Posted on 08/02/2006 5:16:02 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Four members of a Latino gang in Highland Park were found guilty Tuesday of unleashing a barrage of assaults and killings to push African Americans out of the predominantly Latino community in northeast Los Angeles.
The verdicts in a downtown federal courtroom marked the first time a street gang had been convicted of breaking federal hate crime laws, traditionally employed against white supremacist groups like skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan.
"I'm glad the truth is out," said Luisa Prudhomme, whose 21-year-old son, Anthony, was killed when Avenues members allegedly kicked open his door and shot him in the head as he lay on a futon.
Among crimes committed by the defendants from 1995 to 2001, according to testimony, were shooting a 15-year-old boy riding a bike; hitting a jogger in the head with a pistol; drawing outlines of human bodies in chalk on a family's driveway, along with a racial slur; and knocking a woman off her bike, threatening her husband with a box cutter, and saying, "You niggers have been here long enough."
...Martinez asked if anyone wanted to kill a black man, three of them jumped out, ran up to Wilson's windows and opened fire, witnesses said. A shot to the head killed him before the car had even rolled to a stop.
Another black man, Christopher Bowser, was harassed and beaten up by the defendants for years. In December 2000, he filed a police report saying Martinez had assaulted and robbed him at a bus stop near his house. A week later, Bowser was shot to death at the same bus stop on Figueroa Street.
[...]prosecutors said they had a witness who would testify that the Mexican Mafia, which controls many local Latino gangs, ordered the Avenues to carry out the attacks on African Americans.
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Balkanization isn't just a word.
D'ya think the ACLU will step in?
Hmmm....no wonder I see a ton of California license plates here in little Boise, Idaho.....
My, my, these Latino kids sure do have the energy. Image working all day at jobs Americans wont do, & then having the energy at night to do community service projects.
Thanks to all who have made this possible! /major sarc
We Californians haven't seen anything yet. Just wait a few more years. They know they scared the senate on May 1 and it has emboldened them. They are slowly taking over our cities and are working on the state. They have already elected illegal alien apologists in California and they work for them behind the scenes. Add onto that a Governor with the same views as George Bush and Californians are screwed.
You haven't seen anything yet.
Travis spoke about the Balkanization of this country many times.
Shhh! The retired SEAL is "He WHo Must Not Be Named" - unless you want a thread pulled because: Pulled.
I strongly recommend his latest book.
Another black man, Christopher Bowser, was harassed and beaten up by the defendants for years. In December 2000, he filed a police report saying Martinez had assaulted and robbed him at a bus stop near his house. A week later, Bowser was shot to death at the same bus stop on Figueroa Street.Sounds like a little too much "diversity" in the LAPD as well.
But I thought only whites can be racist and/or convicted of hate crimes. That's what Jesse-The-Philanderer-Jackson says.
Wow, how little things have changed since the mid to late 90's saw a surge in anti black activity from the latino gang bangers in Hell A.
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