"That is absolutely false."
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
The gov’t could hire millions of unemployed black men. Give them a day or two orientation and training, explaining what is and is not permitted when apprehending someone, then send them into the barrios to round up all the illegals they can find. Pay them a bounty for every illegal they catch. Good Americans will always be proud to serve America. Offset costs with asset forfeitures enforced against illegals and their supporters. Problem solved. In a month.
In other words, Ethnic Cleansing!
bttt
If Ward and June Cleaver moved from Detroit to Royal Oak back in the early 70’s, they probably understand.
Thats what happens when zoning laws are changed to allow apartment to be built on single family house lots.
Here is what Canoga Park used to look like.
Before the invasion.
http://digital-library.csun.edu/communities/canogapk.html
"That is absolutely false."
Me, Leadwell street 1956-1963!! I cant believe what happend to my beloved “Valley”
“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”
20 years ago, it was a nice community.
Motion
The Community Development Department's (CDD) Human Services and Family Development Division administers the Day Laborer Program, a public safety program that provides a site where workers and employers can come together to make arrangements for labor.
Funding is provided to non-profit organizations that operate established fixed day laborer hiring sites.
Day laborer agencies provide the supervision of the sites as well as citywide marketing, mediation services, community outreach, attracting potential employers and workers to an approved site, fairly dispatch jobs, provide appropriate human development services to day laborers and develop mutually supportive relationships with the surrounding communities.
The goals of the Day Laborer Program are to:
1. Provide a valuable community safety service.Home Depot in Canoga Park has agreed to lease a portion of their parking lot and erixt a trellis shelter at their facility at 2 12 18 Roscoe Blvd, at Deering Avenue, in Canoga Park to the City to establish a Day Laborer Site. The City will lease approximately 3,146 square feet of the parking lot from Home Depot for a one-year term with a rent $1.00 per year. The City will have the right to terminate on 30 days notice and Home Depot will have the right to terminate the sublease with 90 days notice.
2. Protect the rights of the homeowners, businesses, individuals residing or doing business in the area, and day laborers.
3. Provide a safe and clean site away from street corners where day laborers can seek employment in the City.
The City through CDD has entered into a contract with IDEPSCA (Instituto de Educaci6n Popular Del Sur de California), a non-profit organization, to operate the day laborer center.
The City will also have to enter into a sublease of the same property with IDEPSCA to operate the day laborer center. The City IDEPSCA Sublease will track the terms of the Home Depot - City Sublease and pass on the City's obligations to IDEPSCA.
IDEPSCA will pay for all utilities, repairs and maintenance costs. They will also be required to maintain adequate liability, fire, and other insurance as determined by the City's Risk Manager.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the Council authorize the Department of General Services to negotiate and execute the lease agreement between Home Depot and the City and the sublease agreement between the City and IDEPSCA on the terms set forth above.
PRESENTED BY (signed)
DENNIS ZINE
Councilmember, 3rd District
SECONDED BY (signed)
Herb J. W... (illegible)
PDF file: one page Motion from The Community Development Department's (CDD) Human Services and Family Development Division
Meanwhile here is a July 2007 video filmed at the Canoga Park Home Depot day labor site on YouTube: Canoga Park Home Depot DLS, 7-14-07, Clip I
But wait, there's more (click here).
There would be a new television channel devoted to it.
“1. Provide a valuable community safety service”
How??
I wouldn’t rely on the gov to supply these figures. 45,000 Americans have been killed by illegals since 9/11. This info has been posted many times here.
It is almost equally devided up from 12 per day from auto accidents and 12 per day from murder.
Yes—particularly when percentages reach 15-20.
Good question.
I think you already know the answer to your question.
As an Hispanic I am horrified by these monsters who come here illegally and commit yet more crimes. Deport ‘em.
I'm a Ward Cleaver white person. You're right. I don't understand."
Don't worry about it. In time -- you'll understand completely.
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