Posted on 06/07/2011 10:10:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Members of a Latino gang affiliated with the Mexican Mafia conspired for nearly 20 years to drive African-Americans out of the Southern California city of Azusa through violence and intimidation, federal authorities alleged Tuesday.
An alleged member of the Azusa 13 gang following a raid Tuesday.
Fifty-one alleged members of the Azusa 13 gang were indicted on racketeering and conspiracy charges; six were accused of conspiring to violate the civil rights of African-Americans. The case marks the second time federal civil-rights laws have been used against a gang, authorities said.
"The Azusa 13 gang waged a campaign of hate during a two-decade crime spree in which African-Americans were harassed and attacked," U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. said in a written statement Tuesday. "We hope that this federal case will signal the end of this racist behavior and will help vindicate all of the victims who have suffered over the years."
Thirty-nine of the defendants were in custody Tuesday. Authorities were still searching for 12 other suspects. Lawyers for some of the defendants couldn't immediately be reached.
While racial tensions among gangs have long been a part of turf wars in Southern California, none of the victims of the Azusa gang's alleged racial harassment were part of any rival gangs or criminal enterprise, authorities said. They were targeted simply because they were black, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the gang adopted a "racist principle" that, according to the indictment unsealed Tuesday, members would "harass and use violence to drive African-Americans out of the city of Azusa." According to the latest U.S. Census information, about 64% of the city's 47,000 residents are Hispanic and nearly 4% are black.
The gang targeted African-Americans with robberies and beatings, and defaced their homes with graffiti using racial slurs,
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I can not claim too much knowledge about SoCal. I only attended UCSD for a short time in the Eighties, and did vacation there a few times in the past.
You insinuate that I do not know about the virulence of the Re-Conquistas. Not true.
I am from the City of Detroit. Once formerly one of the greatest cities in the world. I saw what the leftists did there. I experienced it.
I chose to get out, and save my life. I now live in the beautiful northwest Lower Peninsula, the nicest place I’ve ever been.
I don’t hang out here, at FreeRepublic, to be ignorant about what’s going on in the rest of the world.
BTW, have you ever been to Charlevoix, Mi.?
I stand with you.
Do you live near Bridgeport?
Yes, it does stand to reason. But we are talking about laws written by Democrat politicians to garner and lock in votes. So, there are "protected classes" of people. 'Good decent people' are not in one of the protected classes.
Lawyers, correct me, if I'm wrong.
So, as long as the uninformed good decent people, give their votes to Democrats, it's not going to change. How long has affirmative action (race discrimination by government) been going on?
I’m watching how the media responds. I’m guessing they will ignore it.
I believe you’ve been commenting on this sort of violent ethnic cleansing and Balkanization for some time.
You're right! The blacks should have stayed. They must be racist if they don't want to live around Mexicans.
I lived in Azusa from 1955, when I was born, to just before my 11th birthday, when my mother moved us to Westchester. My mother worked for Aerojet. Every year they would sponsor a big picnic in the park. The last one I remember devolved into a hugh fight between the ethnic groups. Back then girls wore bee-hive hairdos. They would hide double-edge razor blades in their hair so as to cause injury if they were grabbed. The race war has been going on much longer than this article would let on.
I’ve been told do not go back to visit, and I won’t.
No, Orange County California
So? Blacks attacked whites in the same way.
You take offense where there was no criticism. My point was that you can read all day about these animals and their hatred of anglos, but physically being in their midst is another level.
I took no offense at at your no-criticism.
I know So-Cal only faintly. From my experience, most people who have never been to northern Michigan think it is all like Detroit.
Once again, I grew up in the City of Detroit. I believe that I have seen much hatred directed at me.
Again, I ask, Have you ever been to Charlevoix?
We live on the “Sweet-Water Sea”.
You could even look us up.
Come up, I’ll gladly buy the beers, FRiend.
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