Thread: L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading Page 1 of 9

L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading
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More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever... and coming to a neighborhood near you
By PETER LANDESMAN
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 10:00 am

Late Christmas Eve 2005, Demond Whiting and a friend left the recreation center at Nickerson Gardens and turned right down Compton Avenue. Whiting was 32 and an original gangster in the Bounty Hunter Bloods. The Bounty Hunters control and terrorize Nickerson Gardens, the sprawling housing development in Watts, and use it as a base for a nationwide drug-trafficking network. Whiting, who was fresh from a long stretch in prison for armed robbery, was chatting about his new life as a civilian, when someone stuck an AK-47 out the window of a passing car and fired two rounds. One hit Whiting in the back, severing his spine and paralyzing him.

Early the next morning — Christmas morning — a Bounty Hunter named Antoine Staffer, a.k.a. Pig, left Nickerson Gardens, walked about a half mile to the edge of the dusty, treeless Jordan Downs housing project, strolled up to a car and shot the driver in the face. The victim was Brandon “B.L.â€

They had an episode on the TV series Gangland on the History Channel which showed the L.A. gangs. It showed the racial war between the Hispanics and blacks. Next week they will show one of the Hispanic gangs. In Palm Beach County they indicted 10 Sur-13 gang members where one was a juvenile and 9 were adults. I checked the adults names for their booking information and 4 were not coming up in the records, 3 had no holds and 2 had immigration holds on them.