Posted on 07/16/2019 6:08:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
LOS ANGELES — MS-13 gang members in Los Angeles hacked to death seven people in the last two years, including a rival gang member who was dismembered and had his heart cut out by six MS-13 soldiers in the Angeles National Forest for defacing the gang’s graffiti, federal authorities alleged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Twenty-two people allegedly affiliated with the gang’s Fulton clique in the San Fernando Valley were indicted by a grand jury on racketeering charges that include nearly 200 criminal acts, committed across several states over nine years.
The sweeping, 78-page indictment marks the latest salvo between California law enforcement and the notorious gang, which was formed decades ago in Los Angeles and has since become a bogeyman for President Donald Trump, who evokes its macabre killings in his rhetoric against illegal immigration.
Four people were killed in the Angeles National Forest by members of the Fulton clique wielding machetes, baseball bats and knives, the indictment alleges. Along with a slaying in the Malibu hills and another in Whitsett Fields Park in North Hollywood — the clique’s “stronghold,” prosecutors said — the six killings were committed by gang members hoping to gain entry into or advance within the clique’s ranks, according to the indictment.
Sixteen of the 22 people indicted are charged in connection with those six slayings, which authorities called so “heinous, cruel or depraved” that the defendants are eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors have not said whether they intend to seek it.
All 22 of the alleged MS-13 affiliates are in custody. Eighteen had been apprehended over the last year on a range of federal and state charges, authorities said. Three were arrested in recent days in the Los Angeles area by a task force composed of FBI agents, Los Angeles Police Department officers and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. Another alleged MS-13 affiliate was arrested over the weekend in Oklahoma.
Authorities also filed two more cases under seal against juvenile defendants in federal court. Some of the suspects were high school students at the time of the slayings, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Law enforcement officials said the two-year spasm of violence was carried out largely by Honduran and Salvadoran immigrants hoping to return MS-13 to its bloody roots. Paul Delacourt, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, said the bloodshed was motivated in part by the group’s desire to make MS-13 less deferential to the Mexican Mafia, which wields influence over most Hispanic and Latino street gangs in the Los Angeles area. MORE AT THE LINK
Law enforcement officials said the two-year spasm of violence was carried out largely by Honduran and Salvadoran immigrants hoping to return MS-13 to its bloody roots.
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"The sweeping, 78-page indictment marks the latest salvo between California law enforcement and the notorious gang, which was formed decades ago in Los Angeles and has since become a bogeyman for President Donald Trump, who evokes its macabre killings in his rhetoric against illegal immigration."
They report on Honduran and Salvadoran MS-13 street gangs, stating that they are performing medieval killings, and then sneer that these monsters are Trump's Bogeyman? Do they even read what they write anymore?
Horrible.
And these criminals are also coming in at the border and the Dems don’t want us to stop them.
Who are we to impose our values on them?
Round em up snuff em out!
“Our strength” hard at work.
But liberals tell me they are just like me!
Medieval?????
Yes there were killings like this in medieval times—in ancient Mexico and Peru. Not in Europe.
Where are Cortez and Pizarro when you need them.
cutting out the hearts isn’t medieval, its both Aztec and the earlier Maya that did that.
I saw somewhere else that 19 of these are illegals. And they’re all so young, they’re probably Dreamers on top of that. It said most had come in in the last 4 years.
Cultural enrichment. Diversity is our strength. Just doing the medieval murders Americans won't do. And if you don't go along with this, you're trying to make America white again.
Diversity is strength /sarc
Disappear them.
Yes they are! And they are even better. San Fran NaN said that they have a “spark of divinity”!
SANCTUARY
Just doing the machete murders that Americans won’t do anymore. And besides, illegal immigration is An Act of Love. Jeb! told us so.
Yes they are exactly the same as you, just a different paint job. </sarc>
“Who are we to impose our values on them?”
Right on.
They are merely celebrating their Aztec roots and we should embrace their quasi-surgical removal of beating human hearts.
I for one welcome our new machete wielding latino overlords. Si se puede.
Or words to that effect.
Round em up snuff em out!
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Once again, as I’ve said many times on this forum, in any truly civilized society, such criminals would be tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and publicly hanged within two weeks following their apprehension. No appeals and no exceptions.
“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]” —
Charles James Napier
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