147 Gang Members Indicted In California for Targeting Blacks

HAWAIIAN GARDENS, Calif. — A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city's black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday.

The indictment alleges a string of attacks on black residents, including a shooting into a home with eight people inside. The indictment does not say if anyone was hit.

In another instance, two gang members allegedly chased a black man, yelled a racist epithet at him and then beat him with a garden rake. The same man was later repeatedly stabbed by two gang members, according to the indictment, which charged them with his attempted murder.

According to 2000 census data, the latest available, Hawaiian Gardens was roughly 73 percent Hispanic and 4 percent black.

Hawaiian Gardens Mayor Michael Gomez welcomed the crackdown, saying: "Honest residents should not have to live in fear of lawless thugs who act like it's high noon at the OK Corral."

The indictments mark at least the second time in less than two years that federal authorities have accused Latino gang members of attacking black residents because of their race. Local officials have tried to downplay racial tensions.

The investigation of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang began in June 2005 after the murder of Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Luis Gerardo "Jerry" Ortiz. Jose Luis Orozco, a member of the gang, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the killing.

Ortiz, 35, died as he searched for Orozco, who had shot and wounded a man while he did yard work. Orozco was later found guilty of attempted murder in that case.

"It was this hatred of African-Americans that may have spurred the attack on Deputy Jerry Ortiz, who was killed trying to arrest a gang member suspected of trying to shoot an African-American man in the back," O'Brien said.

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that's mad crazy man

talk all the shit u want about philly, nut shit like that don't happen...

homicide here is an equal-opportunity employer

 

I tried tellin ya'll.

The gangs in LA are no joke.

Especially the black & latino drama that's been goin on for the past decade.

I'm glad these guys got locked up.

Sad thing is, there's still plenty more gangs targeting blacks. :-?

 

Farrakahn..Sharpton..and Jesse Jackson are silent on this issue...because mexicans aren't white.

If the illegals were white immigrants they'd be screaming from the rooftops.

All the Black misleaders are silent on this issue.

 

I just saw this on the news and it is indeed chilling....
People that inadvertently ended up on their turf were also killed, just based on color.
I dont live to far away from there....
Just insanely creepy.

 

more radical gun control laws are needed--

the war on drugs needs to be drastically reevaluated-- as a failure--

decriminalization of drugs needs to be done at the very least-- ideally, legalize, tax & regulate it..

I'd stop short of assuming that the gang problems are "all" or even "mostly" illegals.. and of course, what about the black-on-black and latin-on-latin gang murders..

On a broader note, more black & brown unity needs to be encouraged by local and national leaders.. the pressures of inner-city life are the perfect opportunity for people to turn on each other..

 

Radical gun laws my ass.

Immigration laws should be enforced..simple as that.

If the shoe were on the other foot they'd be sending us home in bodybags by the millions.

 

For real. That gang truce didn't do shit for the next generation. That only settled shit with a few gang members. Every year, that shit got worse, and is now just as bad as it was back then. And that's just the crips and bloods.

 

You have not seen nothing yet. The real race war between latinos and blacks have yet to happen.

 

Can somebody tell me those highway shootings in LA a few months ago. Was the victims black and were the shooters hispanic gangs? I notice the media did not want to touch that story. It was quickly covered up.

 

Shut the fuck up, you don't know anything about the situation.

 

+1

 

Despite this aberration, when a black man is killed or assaulted in the streets of Los Angeles it is usually by the hand of another black man. I don't imagine that the same truth doesn't apply in every other American city.

 

Yep, seen in it West coast, East coast and in midwest. Man, it makes you wonder....

 

So, you really believe in that "took our jobs" bullshit?

 

It isn't, did you read the headline? "147 Gangmembers Indicted . . . for Targeting Blacks."

Moving on.

 

Did you actually read the story?

Probably not, because if you did you'd know that no one was killed. That right, no murders. Zero. Zilch. Nada. A few attempts, no cigar. It appears that Hispanic gang members are more successful at killing their own kind than blacks. Maybe they can't see us so well in the dark?

 

Don't bother, there is no one listening.

 

OMG, I touched a raw nerve of the messiah.

Denial is the worst disease of black people. You would think the black cone headed elites that control the black masses would understand that after all these centuries.

 

Satyricoon to the rescue.

Somehow I just knew your godless ass would come to this thread running interferance for illegal racists.

You are one sorry little gelding.