Posted on 08/06/2007 2:32:37 PM PDT by pinochet
Edited on 08/06/2007 3:12:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
CANOGA PARK - Nickson Gilles came to Southern California last summer with dreams of carrying a football to stardom - first as a Pierce College running back, then maybe at USC or even the NFL.
Instead, he was carried out on a stretcher, his dream shattered by a shotgun blast that police say was leveled at him by an alleged member of the Canoga Park Alabama gang.
Gilles, an African-American from Florida, was shot in the neck, shoulder and left eye Sept. 3 after the Pierce Brahmas' first game of the season. It was just one of many attacks against blacks that landed Canoga Park Alabama on L.A.'s list of most dangerous gangs.
The Latino gang hasn't hidden the fact that it targets African-Americans in this community, which just two years ago earned the prestigious All-AmericaCity designation, largely due to its racial diversity.
The city's gang list and another that branded Gilles' accused assailant, Fernando Araujo, one of the city's most wanted gangsters offer little solace to Gilles, who has undergone three eye surgeries and hasn't played football since he was shot.
"That whole tragedy messed up my whole life right there," Gilles said in a phone interview from Florida.
Since July 2006 there have been 12 shootings targeting Canoga Park blacks. Following two recent attacks, police have stepped up warnings to African-Americans to be wary of Canoga Park Alabama.
Some blacks in the community, as well as educators working with African-American students, said they have felt the wrath of the gang's racist campaign of violence firsthand. But other blacks paint a more idyllic picture of Canoga Park, one that helped it become the first Los Angeles community to win the All-America honor in the award's 58-year history.
Once a predominately white community, today Canoga Park is about 50 percent Latino, 28 percent white, 15 percent Asian and 4 percent black, according to a 2005 American Community Survey listed in a California State University, Northridge, report.
Although police can't pinpoint why "CPA" has focused on blacks, one possibility is street culture emulating prison life, where black and Latino inmates have repeatedly clashed as they align themselves along racial lines.
"It could be a young guy trying to make his stripes (or) an order from somewhere else or random gang stuff," Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Tom Smart said. "Hopefully, it's a little flare-up and not a continuing trend, especially as the summer heats up."
With the last two attacks on blacks in and around Lanark Park separated by mere days and feet, police want African-Americans to be on alert for any trouble.
"I feel we have an obligation to let (black people) know that they could be targeted," Smart said. "I'd like to remind them to be mindful. It's random."
The most recent shooting occurred about 10:40 p.m. on June 13 when a 23-year-old African-American man drove into the parking lot of Lanark Park.
His attackers, believed to be several Latino males who remain at large, walked up to the car, asked where he was from - a common gang challenge - shouted racial slurs and shot him in the chest and shoulder.
Two days after that shooting, two 15-year-old black boys helping their uncle's girlfriend move out of a nearby apartment on Lanark Street were allegedly beaten in an unprovoked attack by several CPA members. At least one of the attackers shouted a racial epithet during the beating that was caught on an apartment surveillance camera, police said.
Gabriel Chavez, 18, Juan Carlos Sanchez, 20, and two Latino minors were arrested for allegedly taking part in the beating and face felony assault, hate crime and gang-crime enhancement charges.
Excerpt. Rest of the story : Daily News
What is happening to the black in SoCal has happenned to every group in decline in a given neighborhood. "Neighborhood succession" is often unpleasent, no matter which group moves in. Of course, this is difficult for your average Ward/June Cleaver white person to understand...
Don't you remember? Only whites can be racists!!!!!1!
I wonder how much more coverage this story would get, especially nationwide, if this were a white gang.
Crickets chirping from the liberal establishment.
Now I know why the fed govmt classifies Hispanics as whites when they commit crime, and as Hispanics when they are victims of crime.
The irony of which is inescapable.
“Are we going to see more gang violence, as more Hispanics flood into the country?”
Don’t get out much, do you?
If you decide to start you’d be well advised to do it only during daylight hours, and carry a gun if your state will allow it.
“The irony of which is inescapable.”
Man, ain’t that the truth.....
Ah man, please stop showing me that picture. BOTH my sorry excuses for Senators and one my former district rep. RRRRRR.
The blacks prey on the whites, and the mexicans prey on the blacks.
I guess that means us white folks are at the bottom of the food chain.
Did they even visit Canoga Park? It has been a dump for at least a decade...and it is part of Los Angeles, not its own city. It should be classified as a neighborhood.
>>>The Latino gang hasn’t hidden the fact that it targets African-Americans in this community, which just two years ago earned the prestigious All-AmericaCity designation, largely due to its racial diversity.
Are we going to see more gang violence, as more Hispanics flood into the country?
Is a frogs a$$ watertight?
That's nice.
Of course, it would be even better to crack down harshly on the gang-bangers. Make them wary of the police and the community.
I used to live in Canoga Park, on Parthenia St. That place is a huge ghetto. It’s not surprising that gangs are taking over.
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.
Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.
Wanted for Murder in New York City.
Chicago wanted for Murder
Philadelphia wanted for murder
San Francisco wanted for Murder
New Orleans wanted for Murder
Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC
FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals)
There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.
Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article.
All that said, it could be argued that if you include the number of illegals in state and local prisons the number of illegals in jail shrinks to 6% of the total prison population. Never the less if you multiply 16692 (the number of americans murdered in 2005) * .06 (illegal alien percent of total prison population) * 4 (the number of years the US has been in Iraq). The result is that more americans (4006) have been killed by illegals than have been killed in the Iraq war.
To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking... That award for All-American city must be based on numbers alone or something, not considering livability in the least.
Leadwell street, 1989; no latinos, one black teenage boy next door with white mother, estranged husband and father; cul-de-sac with nine houses, five elderly families or survivors of mortality; four rental houses.
1994; earthquake hit, all twelve of the latinos next door in their snug three-bedroom house ran into the street and disappeared along with half the neighbors to “higher ground.”
November of that year we left, never looked back.
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