Attack on family in Compton latest incident in wave of anti-black violence (LAT)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0126-compton-20130126,0,977110.storyAttack on family in Compton latest incident in wave of anti-black violence
A Latino gang is intimidating blacks into leaving the city that was once an African American enclave. It's part of a violent trend seen in other parts of the L.A. area.
By Sam Quinones, Richard Winton and Joe Mozingo
6:46 PM PST, January 25, 2013
The black family—a mother, three teenage children and a 10-year-old boy—moved into a little yellow home in Compton over Christmas vacation.
When a friend came to visit, four men in a black SUV pulled up and called him a "nigger," saying black people were barred from the neighborhood, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. They jumped out, drew a gun on him and beat him with metal pipes.
It was just the beginning of what detectives said was a campaign by a Latino street gang to force an African American family to leave.
The attacks on the family are the latest in a series of violent incidents in which Latino gangs targeted blacks in parts of greater Los Angeles over the last decade.
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The LAPD has been really chickenshit when it comes to the gang problems here. I get the impression that as long as this stuff stays in "their" neighborhoods, then that's OK with the police. It sucks to see them do paramilitary-style raids on the pot dispensaries here, but are unable or unwilling to use that same might towards the gangs. Hell, why can't they bring the feds in and try a RICO charge against them? They've gotta know who a lot of the members are since they always seem to be in and out of the system.
It's very sad to me that people are being harassed out of their home by these bastards. I didn't realize blacks were moving out of Compton as it's one of the only cities in SoCal that is mainly African American. Even though Compton has its problems, it still should not have to have its residents suffer like this.
