Thread: LA: Huge sweeps: Latino gangs that allegedly attacked blacks

Huge sweeps target Latino gangs that allegedly attacked blacks

8:38 AM | May 21, 2009

Federal authorities said they would announce today a huge sweep of Latino gang members allegedly responsible for violence against law enforcement and racially motivated attacks against blacks.

The announcement followed the arrests of dozens of suspected gang members during raids early this morning. A news release from the U.S. attorney's office called it the "largest gang takedown in United States history."

U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien, along with officials from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is scheduled to speak at a news conference at 11 a.m. at the Lakewood sheriff's station.

The indictment is the latest of several investigations that found gangs participating in race-based violence. Federal prosecutors two years ago charged members of a Latino gang with a violent campaign to drive blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood that allegedly resulted in 20 homicides over several years.

In the Harbor Gateway district of L.A., police launched a crackdown last year on another Latino gang accused of targeting blacks, including 14-year-old Cheryl Green, whose death became a rallying point. In 2006, members of the Avenues, a Latino gang, were convicted in federal court for a series of assaults and killings in the early 1990s targeting blacks in Highland Park.

-- Scott Glover

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... lacks.html

It's about time!!!

Dixie

And We're called Racists?

The indictment is the latest of several investigations that found gangs participating in race-based violence. Federal prosecutors two years ago charged members of a Latino gang with a violent campaign to drive blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood that allegedly resulted in 20 homicides over several years.

Can someone please explain to me why HATE crimes are never mentioned when it comes to the illegals targeting US? Please explain why it ONLY pertains to when Hispanics are victims?

I know people were discouraged when crimes against American minorities were being reported in the news, but sometimes an effective investigation (by that I mean one that gets enough evidence against perpetrators to make a charge stick, and spreads a wide enough net to get a substantial number of the guilty) can take years. I hope that's what happened here and that we will see a scourge of our urban fellow citizen's lives get crushed good and hard.

It'll be interesting to see what their immigration status is, and if the media reports on this.

Long long overdue.

Just heard that the count is in the hundreds arrested, I bet over 50% IS ILLEGAL!

Originally Posted by 93camaro

Just heard that the count is in the hundreds arrested, I bet over 50% IS ILLEGAL!

I agree. The other 50% are probably "anchor babies".

With this ,also californians stood up to arnie and said no more taxes, also a couple of cities in california have cut some benifits to illegals.It sounds like california is really starting to fight back now we need to help them all we can.