Thread: El Salvador authorizes use of lethal force against gangs

El Salvador authorizes use of lethal force against gangs

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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday authorized the use of "lethal force" by police and military against gang members to crack down on heightened violence amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Reuters/JOSE CABEZAS El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to deploy military personnel to support his security plan in San Salvador


The Central American country reported 24 homicides on Friday, the worst one-day toll since Bukele took office in June, prompting him to order a 24-hour lockdown in prisons housing gang members.


By late afternoon on Sunday, police had registered another 29 murders, prompting Bukele to introduce tougher measures against gangs he said were taking advantage of the fact security forces were busy helping to contain the virus outbreak.


"The police and armed forces must prioritize safeguarding their lives, those of their companions and of honest citizens. The use of lethal force is authorized in self-defense or in defense of the lives of Salvadorans," Bukele said.


The government this weekend also ordered members of rival gangs into shared cells in a bid to break up lines of communication between members of the same group, and carried out searches in at least five prisons.


Some 12,862 gang members are incarcerated in El Salvador, prison authorities said.


(Reporting by Nelson Renteria; editing by Jane Wardell)


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"Some 12,862 gang members are incarcerated in El Salvador, prison authorities said."

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How many THOUSANDS are running free in El Salvador?

How many THOUSANDS are in OUR prisons in the USA the we are paying for?

How many THOUSANDS are running free in the USA committing crimes against us?


Execute every one of those 12,862, fill the prison back up, and repeat the process!

That is the only way they will get a handle on this situation. Put these violent vermin out of OUR misery!

Put those women on birth control, the seven year implant, so they stop giving birth to these gangs!

Then they dump those children, who THEY gave birth to, over our border to come here and commit crimes against U.S. citizens. This cycle of violence has got to stop and drastic measures need to be taken to stop it in it's tracks.

El Salvador crams prisoners together in lockdown



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April 27, 2020, 4:47 AM EDT




http://Reuters VideosApril 27, 2020,... into prisons.





Shaved, chained and crammed into prisons.


El Salvador's government has ignored social distancing and forced prisoner members of rival gangs to be in shared cells.


Tattoos mark their allegiance to different gangs, but here they are subject to the same tightened restrictions, in a bid to break up lines of communication between members of the same group.


The Central American country reported 24 homicides on Friday (April 24) the worst one-day toll since Nayib Bukele took presidential office in June, prompting him to order a 24-hour lockdown in prisons housing gang members.


Deputy Security Minister Osiris Luna announced the tougher restrictions:
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SALVADORAN DEPUTY SECURITY MINISTER, OSIRIS LUNA, SAYING:


"They will not receive sunlight, they will be in total confinement 24 hours a day in the 7 maximum security prisons that there are in this country. This was an order from President Nayib Bukele. We are complying with that order."


By Sunday, another 29 murders were reported, prompting Bukele to introduce tougher measures as he said gangs were taking advantage of security forces - busy helping to contain the virus outbreak.


Over 12, 000 gang members are incarcerated in El Salvador.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/el-salvador-crams-prisoners-together-084643373.html

Can't get the video to post....


This is what the Democrats Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer want to open our border to!


They need to be given dirt naps! There are thousands of these violent criminals whose victims will never "receive sunlight or breathe fresh air again"!!!!

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered the emergency at maximum security prisons holding gang members the day after more than 20 people were killed throughout country that authorities said were ordered from prisons. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)


Searches were carried out in at least five prisons after Bukele ordered a 24-hour prison lockdown and declared a maximum emergency in the facilities. Authorities said killings throughout the country in recent days were ordered from prisons.


Police wearing masks as a precaution against the new coronavirus guard inmates, also wearing masks, during a security operation after President Nayib Bukele decreed maximum emergency in prisons housing gang members at the Izalco prison in San Salvador, Saturday, April 25, 2020. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)


Images released by the president's press office show police officers wearing masks as a precaution against COVID-10.


The security operation took place after President Nayib Bukele decreed maximum emergency in prisons housing gang members at the Izalco prison in San Salvador, Saturday, April 25, 2020. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)


Inmates were also pictured seated on the floor close very together in large groups wearing masks as their rooms were searched by officers.


El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered the emergency the day after more than 20 people were killed throughout the country that authorities said were ordered from prisons. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)

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What is MS-13?

MS-13 is associated with a spate of brutal and violent killings. How did the gang originate, and how widespread are its members?

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Good grief! Look at them all! Put them down already!!!

They do their dirty deeds behind bars here in the USA and there!

Night Ops...fish food.

And their women keep pumping them out like Pez dispensers!

Keep them the hell out of here!

US-funded police linked to illegal executions in El Salvador

Story by Nick Paton Walsh, Barbara Arvanitidis and Bryan Avelar

San Salvador, El Salvador (CNN) -- The United States has quietly funded and equipped elite paramilitary police officers in El Salvador who are accused of illegally executing gang members, CNN has learned.

Successive US administrations have pumped tens of millions of dollars into Salvadoran law enforcement and military to shore up the government’s “Mano Dura” or Firm Hand program, first launched in 2003 but redoubled in 2014 to tackle the country’s rampant gang problem.

Yet the country’s police will be broadly accused next month of “a pattern of behavior by security personnel amounting to extrajudicial executions” in a United Nations report, seen in advance by CNN, that will also call on Salvadoran security forces to break a “cycle of impunity” in which killings are rarely punished.

One police unit that killed 43 alleged gang members in the first six months of last year received significant US funding, CNN can reveal. Several of those deaths have been investigated as murders by Salvadoran police.

While the unit -- known as the Special Reaction Forces (FES) -- was disbanded earlier this year, many of its officers have joined a new elite force that currently receives US funding.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018...r-police-intl/

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Been using death for a long time.
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