Posted on 10/19/2024 5:31:09 PM PDT by george76
A brutal crew of baby-faced Tren de Aragua migrant gangbangers at a city-funded Manhattan shelter are pulling off armed robberies in Times Square — and they’re getting away with it ..
Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11 years old, are part of a dangerous asylum-seeking brat pack that has graduated from purse snatchings to gunpoint heists targeting New Yorkers and tourists alike .. they’re managing to stay out of jail because of their ages and the Empire State’s lenient criminal justice laws,
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“They kind of had a graduation of sorts, and a progression where originally it started as snatches and then went to strong-armed robberies, and then started brandishing knives in a pack format.”
Also worrisome for New York’s Finest is the possibility that an all-out gang war could erupt between TdA and one of the Big Apple’s most notorious gangs, the Latin Kings.
According to authorities, a dispute between the two gangs dates back several years to the alleged murder of a TdA member by a Latin King, with the feud still a sore point.
TdA, which grew out of the poverty and corruption that has long plagued Venezuela, established a criminal foothold in the five boroughs in little more than a year.
Law enforcement sources said gang members hid among the millions of asylum seekers who crossed the US border with Mexico since 2022, then scattered throughout the country.
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Recruiters also pick youngsters, who are unlikely to be charged as adults, to join their ranks.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If Gothamites would vote for this, then why does NYC now have RCV...?
Because their elected representatives passed it into law.
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