With all the kerfuffle over Coulter, al-Zucchini, gay marriage, and whatever else, we have a real problem with Bloods, Crips, and Latin Kings moving in where the old Italian mobs once ruled. And nobody seems to notice. Or care.
Homeland security money? What about gangland security money?
What about looking in our own backyard before solving the world's problems at the point of a gun?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/nyregion/10graduate.html?_r=1&oref=sloginLEVITTOWN, Pa., June 9 — For the 415 seniors at Harry S. Truman High School, graduation day offered one final lesson — unplanned and most unwelcome — about gangs, violence and intimidation.
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Members of the Bloods street gang reportedly threatened to kill the school's class president, who was a star athlete and honor student. Besides that, given the outbreak of gang-related shootings here in recent months, the threat transformed the commencement ceremony in this Philadelphia suburb into an odd pageant of anxiety and security.
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Yet when the ceremonies began Friday afternoon, the class of '06 was missing its president, Tyrone Lewis, whom the police had banned from the ceremony because they believed that he, and his family, were in danger from the Bloods. Mr. Lewis's sister had agreed to testify against gang members in a New Jersey murder trial, and Mr. Lewis was recently shot at by three men who the police said they believed belonged to the gang. Also absent from the ceremony was Ahman Fralin, 18, a senior who has been hospitalized, and paralyzed from the neck down since April, when he was shot in the spine as he sat beside Mr. Lewis.
Despite protests from Mr. Lewis's mother, he delivered his speech from a secret spot as the crowd watched on a large television screen.
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