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Lakewood Police murders may be gang retaliation
Seattle Examiner (Examiner.com) ^ | November 29, 4:14 PM | Virginia McCabe

Posted on 11/29/2009 3:46:23 PM PST by Jack Black

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Four Lakewood Police Officers murdered on Sunday may have been the target of gangs on the east side of Tacoma. Previous attacks on officers have been reported.

On Sunday, Nov. 29, four Lakewood officers were gunned down in a coffee shop ambush before the start of their shift in Parkland. There are no suspects in custody.

The police have recently started a crack down on Mexican gangs in the state. In July 2009, after the gang crackdown was announced.

On July 30, 2009 a Lakewood police officer's personal car was spray painted with gang tags and set on fire, according to the News Tribune.

The car was parked at the officer's house and was painted with gang tags, then set on fire about 10:45 p.m. Gang tags were also spray painted on the officer's driveway. The officer was in his home at the time, but no injuries were reported by Lakewood Police. His police car was parked next to his personal car and suffered minor heat damage.

The officer had spray painted over gang graffiti in his neighborhood, according to Lakewood Assistant Police Chief Mike Zaro. He did not rule out that it could have been a random act of vandalism after someone spotted a police car parked in the driveway.

Mexican gangs are causing havoc in the Tacoma-Yakima area of Washington with methamphetamine being the drug of choice for the gang. They are moving into Native American territories where a police presence is scant.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: gangs; huckabee; lakewood; lakewoodshooting; police; shootings; tacoma; terrorist
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To: dalebert
simple solution...kill gangs

Finish the fence and deport all illegals.

61 posted on 11/29/2009 4:36:28 PM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: Jack Black
This site Northwest Gangs identifies Xavier Magana, the killer of Alrick "Alphabet" Hendricks, as a member of the "Lakeside Hustler Crips".

Hendricks is said in most of the articles not to have been in a gang. But they always say that when they are killed. They were good kids, trying to get out of the gang life, had managed to accrue six credits in community college over the last five terms, etc.

Hmmm. That sounds like the town where the assassination took place had at least one very active gang 'set'.

62 posted on 11/29/2009 4:39:58 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
Informative post you did there.

Wow, if this is Gang related then it is war.
Death and prison are not deterrents for lawless gang members.

63 posted on 11/29/2009 4:40:42 PM PST by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: healy61

Ditto.


64 posted on 11/29/2009 4:43:14 PM PST by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: Pavegunner72
was this the same area a US Ranger squad got into a firefight with a gang offbase using government weapons?

I heard about that from our Command Sergeant Major. I think that happened in Tacoma.

65 posted on 11/29/2009 4:45:18 PM PST by matt1234
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To: bitt

[maybe another wannabe lone jihadist.???]

Thanks bitt. Think that’s the first thought we have anymore when bad things happen. The police won’t give up on this one, the killer will be tracked down no matter how long it takes.


66 posted on 11/29/2009 4:48:15 PM PST by potlatch (ACTIONS - Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: manonCANAL

Me too! Retalation for a woman police officer taking down a muslim brother at FT Hood. I don’t think that this happened so close to another military post is an accident!


67 posted on 11/29/2009 4:48:28 PM PST by missanne (That's all I can stands and I can't stands no more?? This is one of those days!)
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To: Bulldawg Fan

Outrageous! PC gets us everywhere!


68 posted on 11/29/2009 4:51:30 PM PST by missanne (That's all I can stands and I can't stands no more?? This is one of those days!)
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To: Jack Black

Imagine being a Pierce County Sheriff. Here are the gangs you are dealing with, as listed at the NW Gangs website linked above. (The Lakewood PD had 100 officers. Today they have 96.)

PIERCE COUNTY

BLOOD GANGS

* “B” Street Bloods
* Bounty Hunter Bloods
* East Side Green Raggers
* East Side Piru 44th Avenue
* East Side Villains
* Head Hunter Piru
* Insane Gangster Damu
* Mad Swan/ Family Swan Bloods 84th Avenue
* Native Gangster Bloods 32nd Avenue
* Original Loko Boyz 44th Avenue
* Rollin’ 20’s Bloods NHB
* Seven Deuce Mob
* Trap Star Bloods
* Trey-Five Alley Dawgs
* West Side Piru
* Young Gangster Bloods
* 181 Goons

CRIP GANGS

* Avalon Gangster Crips 11600 Block (Spanaway)
* Baby Gangster Crips
* Darkside Crips 35th Avenue
* Eastside 43rd
* Eastside Gangster Crips 35th & 64th Avenues
* Eastside Morton Blocc Crips
* Fudgetown Mafia Crips (Lakewood)
* Gangster Crips 83
* Gangster Crips 97
* Hilltop Crip Gang
-23rd Street Murder Blocc
-17th & “M” Street Young Boxer Crips
-16th Street Clicc Clacc DSD1
-15th Street Mobbin Deep Crips
-12th Street Trafton Blocc Crips
-9th Street Rip Ryda Loc Mafia
-8 Blocc
* Hoover Criminals 21
* Hoover Criminals 74
-Ratt Pacc
* Hoover Criminals 107
* Hoover Gangster Crips 52
* Knoccout Crips 47th & Oakes
* Kushman Blocc
* Lake City Crips (Lakewood)
* Lakewood Hustler Crips 47th Avenue
-Lila Lane
* McKinley Avenue Crips 64th Avenue
* Native Gangster Crips 40 Blocc
* Neighborhood Crips 25th Avenue
* Nutty Blocc Crips 92
* Rollin’ 20’s Crips
* Rollin’ 40’s Crips/ 46 NHC
* Rollin’ 60’s Crips
* Rollin’ 90’s Crips
* South Side Crips
* South Side Six-Tre Mafia Crips
* The Family 43rd & Warner
* Thug Life 37th Street
* West Side Acacia Blocc Compton Crips (Bremerton)
* Young Gangster Crips 45th Blocc

GANGSTER DISCIPLE FOLKS GANGS

* 66 Gangster Disciples
* 96 Gangster Disciples
* 120 Mafia Folks (Parkland)
* “B” Street Gutta Mob 56
* B.O.S.S.
* Crazy 8 (Spanaway)
* Deuce-8
* Murdaville 96th Street
* South Side 74 Gangster Disciples
-Crime Family 56th Street
-11-Deuce Blam Gang
-66 Scanless Fam
* Straight Savages
* Tillicum Park Gangsters
* Tray-8 Mobb
* Tru Gangster Disciples

PEOPLE NATION GANGS

* Four Corner Hustlers 4CH
* Insane Vice Lords 6th Avenue

HISPANIC GANGS

* Brown Pride Controlla
* Crazy Mexican Surenos 13
* Criminal Minded Locos Surenos 13 (CML)
* East Side Locos Surenos 13 (ELS)
* East Side Vatos Locos 13 (EVL)
* Evergreen Flats 13
* Florencia 13
* Little Valley Lokotes 13
* Loco Boy Surenos 13
* Locos Pandilleros Surenos 13
* Logan Heights 13 (Lakewood)
* Mara Salvatrucha 13
* Nortenos 14
* Old City Panama 13 (Lakewood)
* Rancho San Pedro 3rd Street
-Peewees
* South Side Locos 13
* South Side Playboy Surenos 13
-Conejos
-Rascals
-Wicked Bunnies
* Vatos Locos Surenos 13
* Varrio Surenos Lokotes 13

ASIAN GANGS

* Active Park Uso (Lakewood)
* Asian Boyz Crips
* Asian Family Mob
* Island Samoa Boyz
* Krazy Ruthless Bloods
* Kushman Block (Bloods)
* Loc’d Out Crips
* Loco Boyz (Bloods)
* Original Loko Boyz 44th Avenue
* Original Ruthless Bloods 38th Avenue
* Poison Posse Boys
* Royal Samoan Piru
* Samoan Mafia Gang
* Tiny Raskal Gang
* USO Pryde Family 90’s Block

HYBRID GANGS

* Diamond Block (TPG & ESP 44)
* Gangster Boyz
* Goodfellas
* Juggalos
* Tuk Town Kings
* Young N Thuggin
* 181st Street (Spanaway)


69 posted on 11/29/2009 4:52:15 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
There was a time I might have come to the aid of police under fire.

I would never do that now.

70 posted on 11/29/2009 4:55:33 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Jack Black

” 17 Community Laison Officers” - that will do the job. rolls eyes.


72 posted on 11/29/2009 5:01:59 PM PST by healy61
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To: Jack Black
That is some list. You can see why the TV show COPS films allot of their programs in Peirce County.

Parkland, Spanaway, Puyallup, Lakewood, East Tacoma. All hotzones of gang activity, and also the home of some of the lowest of the low crack head trailer trash scum you can find.

73 posted on 11/29/2009 5:02:44 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Red in Blue PA
Why we don’t take gangs seriously and eradicate them is simply beyond me.

Because the largest, best-equipped, best-financed street gang in America is the cops. Federal, state, county, city, whatever - none of them have any interest in being what used to be known as a "Peace Officer".

74 posted on 11/29/2009 5:05:10 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: FlyVet
They’re in for a world of hurt. There will be thousands of law enforcement tracking down a pair of quad cop-killers. Most likely they will commit suicide whether “suicide by cop” or not. Cops don’t put up with this crap. They can’t, or it’s open season on cops.

Yeah well, we'll see.
In Philly the perps would be dead already. New York, too.

75 posted on 11/29/2009 5:05:43 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Jack Black

Anyone know of a way to decipher gang tags? In the last two years my area south of Renton, WA has been bombarded by tags. PBS is the most common.


76 posted on 11/29/2009 5:07:41 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: matt1234

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/895048.html

here is the link to the 1989 Tacoma shootout between Army Rangers and a local gang.


77 posted on 11/29/2009 5:08:38 PM PST by Pavegunner72
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To: manonCANAL
I’m still thinking muslim

I doubt the perp was a muslim. A muslim would be just as likely to shoot the baristas and other customers at the coffeeshop, but this killer was only after the cops. However there is one thing I can guarantee: the killer did not vote for John McCain in 2008.

78 posted on 11/29/2009 5:10:16 PM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: Pavegunner72
"was this the same area a US Ranger squad got into a firefight with a gang offbase using government weapons? "

I would like to see the after action report on that engagement. Do you have any more information?

79 posted on 11/29/2009 5:12:26 PM PST by An Old Man (Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
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To: ChuckHam
"Did I miss anything?"

Yeah, "the bitch set me up".

80 posted on 11/29/2009 5:13:49 PM PST by fuzzthatwuz
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