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Watts leaders, shaken by shootings, tell residents to avoid large gatherings for rest of 2023
Los Angeles Times ^
| August 2, 2023
| Brennon Dixson and Libor Jany
Posted on 08/03/2023 1:57:26 PM PDT by grundle
After recent violent incidents in Watts that injured nine and claimed two lives, community leaders have decided something must be done.
“We done hit bottom, everybody,” said Cynthia Mendenhall at a news conference in the neighborhood on Tuesday. The former gang member, who has lost loved ones to gang violence, said it was evident in the fact that family members couldn’t even be sure of their safety when crossing certain streets to pay respect to fallen loved ones.
Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023.
Cummings and his peers on the Watts Gang Task Force determined it’s best for Watts families to avoid big crowds and large gatherings for the remainder of the year.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: losangeles; watts
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posted on
08/03/2023 1:57:26 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
What they should be doing is figuring out who amongst Whitey is responsible for this
To: grundle
Article:
“We done hit bottom”
You can’t make up this stuff.
Just keep blaming whitey—what could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:00:08 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: grundle
New vote by mail excuse.......Could get killed by going outside. Talk about self fulfilling prophecy?!
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:00:21 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
To: grundle
I know! I know!
Defund the police!
That will fix it!
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:03:39 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: grundle
Well, if nothing else, perhaps people in the Black community are starting to figure out that the only solutions (read, better “trade offs” per Thomas Sowell) to their problems are going to come from within, and not from the Democrat party, who have only worsened their collective plight on every issue.
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:05:13 PM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
To: grundle
Why don’t you idiots just STOP SHOOTING EACH OTHER ?
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:13:33 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: grundle
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:18:11 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
To: grundle
“We done hit bottom, everybody,” said Cynthia Mendenhall at a news conference in the neighborhood on Tuesday. The former gang member, who has lost loved ones to gang violence, said it was evident in the fact that family members couldn’t even be sure of their safety when crossing certain streets to pay respect to fallen loved ones.YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID !
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:18:21 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: grundle
It’s simply time to incentivize the black underclass to move to a permanent ethnostate in Sub-Saharan Africa. They are incapable of living in a functional, civil society.
PW Botha and George Wallace were demonized for segregation but were right.
To: grundle
I imagine with the 2024 election coming up, the DemonRATS will be pulling off a lot of mass shootings. It’s really going to suck. A lot of kids are going to be sacrificed so the RATs can hold on to control of the “government.”
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:26:34 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
To: grundle
Diversity is their Strength.
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:30:21 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: mabarker1
She keeps digging the hole.
The bottom keeps dropping.
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:31:24 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: grundle
Oh come on man, why is everyone getting their panties bunched up just because young black men are acting like, well, young black men. What’s next they gonna start complaini9ng that dogs bark?
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:54:51 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: grundle
“We done hit bottom”
Good work getting rid of stereotypes there, community leader.
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posted on
08/03/2023 2:56:40 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America.)
To: grundle
Where’s Mad Max Waters???? She represents Watts — let her take care of it. Yea, right.
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posted on
08/03/2023 3:09:34 PM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
To: mabarker1
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posted on
08/03/2023 3:11:13 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
08/03/2023 3:11:39 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Eccl 10:2
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posted on
08/03/2023 3:11:58 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
No, they were not.The first partof your statement was correct, but not the second. It IS, a black sub- class. See Chris Rock.
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posted on
08/03/2023 3:13:30 PM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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