Thread: Priest sees changes to Special Order 40 as a threat to L.A.

Priest sees changes to Special Order 40 as a threat to L.A.’s immigrants

Ari B. Bloomekatz

Father Richard Estrada, an associate pastor at the 189-year-old Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in downtown Los Angeles, is obviously not in a gang.

But the dark-skinned Estrada, who speaks softly and wears his hair tied back in a ponytail, jokes that under the proposed changes to Special Order 40 he could “look like a gang memberâ€