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But I thought Blacks and Browns were going to unite to take on the White power structure. What's going on? Has someone informed Jesse Jackson's Rainbow coalition about this?
A south Los Angeles Latino street gang targeted African-American gang rivals and other blacks in a campaign of neighborhood "cleansing," federal prosecutors say. Alleged leaders and foot soldiers in the Hispanic gang Florencia 13, also called F13, are being arraigned this week on charges stemming from a pair of federal indictments that allege that the gang kept a tight grip on its turf by shooting members of a rival gang—and sometimes random black civilians. The "most disturbing aspect" of the federal charges was that "innocent citizens … ended up being shot simply because of the color of their skin," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien told reporters in announcing the indictments.
English grammar is not a strong suit of yours, eh? They targeted Black gangs and others. Which would imply they targeted Blacks who were not gang members as well.
Nice 2007 article. But even within the article is this little "fact".
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The targeting of blacks by the Latino F13 appears to be an anomaly; experts say the majority of gang violence still involves a gang member and a victim of the same race. "On average, the violence just isn't race-based," says UC Irvine criminologist George Tita. "Our studies show there's no pattern of black-brown crime." Between 2000 and 2006 black offenders in south Los Angeles were more than seven times more likely to kill black victims, according to a study recently published by Tita and colleagues; Hispanic killers targeted fellow Hispanics twice as often.
Considering East LA is 97.1% hispanic, I wouldn't be so quick to call this total BS.
Most of them should not be in this country.
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