Thread: CA: Officials Turn Out for Harbor Gateway Anti-Gang Rally

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Officials Turn Out for Harbor Gateway Anti-Gang Rally
LOS ANGELES, January 13, 2007 - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Harbor-area Councilwoman Janice Hahn turned out Saturday for an anti-gang rally in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood where a 14-year-old black girl was shot to death, supposedly for crossing a turf line at 206th Street.

About 300 people turned out for the rally in the racially mixed neighborhood.
The rally in the Harbor Gateway area called for the end of gang violence and the racial divide between Latinos and blacks, an aide said.

City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Earl Paysinger, officials with the Los Angeles County and Los Angeles Human Relations commissions, members of the Stop the Violence, Increase the Peace Foundation, community leaders and community activists also participated in the "End Violence Now Community Rally."

Saturday's rally was the latest in a series of marches by multi-ethnic groups of activists across 206th Street, the "forbidden line" Latino gang members have warned blacks not to cross under threat of attack.

The protests were sparked by the Dec. 15 alleged hate-crime killing of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old black girl. Ernesto Alcarez, a Latino gang member, has been charged with one count of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted premeditated murder, with the special circumstances of murder to further a gang and murder based on race, in connection with the killing.

The killing of the teen -- an eighth-grader at Stephen M. White Middle School in Carson -- was believed to be the latest evidence of escalating warfare between blacks and a Latino gang in the area. Police said Green was not involved with gangs and was shot because she was black.

Harbor Gateway residents have told the Los Angeles Times the 204th Street gang has terrorized their neighborhood for years and, in some cases, forced them to change where they shop, how they commute, even how and when they go outside. They say they seem surrounded and confined to a three-street area, stretching south from 207th to 209th streets, between Western and Denker avenues.

Last month, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, challenged Villaraigosa and city officials to increase Los Angeles Police Department patrols in Harbor Gateway and called for an emergency summit to address the issue of hate crime in the city.

According to statistics released last week, interracial gang-related attacks in Los Angeles rose in 2006, despite a citywide reduction in crime for the fifth consecutive year.

Of Los Angeles's 478 homicides reported in 2006, about 56 percent were gang-related, LAPD Chief William Bratton said.

Villaraigosa has made several attempts recently to address the gang problem, including meeting with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Washington last week to discuss opportunities for local and federal enforcement agencies to coordinate gang suppression strategies.

The march came one day after the issuing of a report that found the city's scattered gang prevention and intervention programs lack accountability and should come under the direction of a single gang "czar" to become more effective.

"There is no question that we must attack the gang crisis from every angle of the problem," Villaraigosa said. "I am currently working with Chief Bratton and members of the City Council, and over the course of the next several weeks we will lay out a strategy to do just that."

Originally Posted by jean

According to statistics released last week, interracial gang-related attacks in Los Angeles rose in 2006, despite a citywide reduction in crime for the fifth consecutive year.

What blatant hypocrisy! Antonio Villaraigosa is against gangs, but supports the illegal activities of illegal Mexican aliens (many of whom are in gangs) so he is not really against gangs at all!

In order to eliminate "interracial gang-related attacks" you would have to support enforcing the law concerning gang members who are illegal aliens but since Villaraigosa encourages illegal immgration he cannot be at all serious about stopping interracial gang-related attacks! He is another showman Leftist along the lines of Louis Farrakhan.

The mind reels!

I guesss any gang that does'nt pay tribute to him and La Raza, and Mecha ect.. is just a dangerous gang.


He's also trying to coverup or kiss up and pretend that racial tensions don't exist. Mexicans are total racists in their own country. Of course, their going to bring their racism with them as they cross the BORDER ILLEGALLY.

Yeah, spin you hypocracy! You blow hot and cold. He has no sympathy unless it suits his seat in office!!!!!

Hmmm.........let me see if I've got this straight - Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa wants the illegals to walk the streets without fear of prosecution or deportation - yet he doesn't want the ill effects (crime) that many are bringing into the city. This just doesn't make any sense!

You're right, jean, the man is a hypocrite of the highest order.

Originally Posted by MW

You're right, jean, the man is a hypocrite of the highest order.

This kind of hypocricy is very familiar in Detroit where extremists like Loius Farrakhan preach that Blacks should work towards wiping out the white race but they should also do everything they can to get white people to fund welfare for Blacks (and choke up billions of dollars for reparations). Doesn't make sense: where is your welfare dollar going to come from when you preach hatred and destruction against the very people you want to supply that welfare? So hypocricy seems to go right along with stupidity.

Not surprisingly, the Detroit area is home to many Arabs and Muslims who refuse to work and stay on welfare permanently. The Detroit Free Press (the most horrible paper I have ever read in my life) once did a story in which it did a positive portrayal of a Muslim who was on welfare and had an unpaid career as a standup comic in Muslim clubs where he did a comedy act making fun of white Americans and being full of self-pity about having to live around Americans...