my point of view is:
you're dead, no matter what color the skin of a person that killed you. violence is violence in my view.
but i did have the feeling reading all of the l.a. times article in print the other day and here on the internet, that the times is on the black side.
don't forget that drugs are a major part of this. the latino gangs are bringing drugs into the country and distributing them.
Drugs, like the poor, will always be with us. I say this as one who's mother's people flooded the nation with Heroin after WWII.