Comments on: Antonio, Gangs and the State of the City http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/ street news, views and stories of justice and injustice Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:19:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Woody http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-11998 Woody Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:05:20 +0000 http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/#comment-11998 It'll be quiet on the streets tonight. Gang members are busy preparing their tax returns or extensions and running to the post office. It’ll be quiet on the streets tonight. Gang members are busy preparing their tax returns or extensions and running to the post office.

]]> By: Woody http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-11991 Woody Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:14:46 +0000 http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/#comment-11991 Note: Which Way LA has been preempted for a special show covering my views on gangs. Note: Which Way LA has been preempted for a special show covering my views on gangs.

]]> By: PoLock! http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-11982 PoLock! Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:28:51 +0000 http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/#comment-11982 I think we are all on the same level when it comes to deporting a certain individual with or without any Special Order 40. 1 - a felon 2 - here illegally 3 - an active gangmember Now, if your a dumb ass and decide to hang out with an idividual meeting the above criteria and gets detained on a criminal investigation. I am not going to argue to anyone that you need to go too. I want him to hear those sweet words from a Tijuana taxi cab driver, "Welcome to Mejico Senor, where ju going?" I think we are all on the same level when it comes to deporting a certain individual with or without any Special Order 40.
1 – a felon
2 – here illegally
3 – an active gangmember
Now, if your a dumb ass and decide to hang out with an idividual meeting the above criteria and gets detained on a criminal investigation. I am not going to argue to anyone that you need to go too.
I want him to hear those sweet words from a Tijuana taxi cab driver, “Welcome to Mejico Senor, where ju going?”

]]> By: By Earl Ofari Hutchinson http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-11971 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:42:45 +0000 http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/#comment-11971 When Jamiel Shaw Sr. stood up last week to call for a change in Special Order 40, it touched an already raw nerve in the black community. Shaw's son, 17-year-old star football player Jamiel Shaw II, was gunned down within shouting distance of his house. The suspect, 19-year-old Pedro Espinoza, is an alleged gang member and an illegal immigrant. Special Order 40 has prevented law enforcement from probing the immigration status of some suspects and deporting criminals with dispatch. On top of that, although Shaw took special care when he implored the council to change the order to say that he "did not want to target Latinos," the hard reality is that those who are most likely to be stopped in gang crime investigations and grilled on their citizenship will be young Latinos. Still, the inescapable fact is that any crime, gang related or otherwise, committed by illegal immigrants is going to draw justifiable howls for authorities to do their job and remove from the streets those who commit violent offenses and who are here illegally. People want to know that the authorities take seriously the issue of illegal immigration and its relation to street violence. When Jamiel Shaw Sr. stood up last week to call for a change in Special Order 40, it touched an already raw nerve in the black community. Shaw’s son, 17-year-old star football player Jamiel Shaw II, was gunned down within shouting distance of his house. The suspect, 19-year-old Pedro Espinoza, is an alleged gang member and an illegal immigrant. Special Order 40 has prevented law enforcement from probing the immigration status of some suspects and deporting criminals with dispatch.

On top of that, although Shaw took special care when he implored the council to change the order to say that he “did not want to target Latinos,” the hard reality is that those who are most likely to be stopped in gang crime investigations and grilled on their citizenship will be young Latinos.

Still, the inescapable fact is that any crime, gang related or otherwise, committed by illegal immigrants is going to draw justifiable howls for authorities to do their job and remove from the streets those who commit violent offenses and who are here illegally. People want to know that the authorities take seriously the issue of illegal immigration and its relation to street violence.

]]> By: Rebel Girl http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-11969 Rebel Girl Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:05:35 +0000 http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/antonio-gangs-and-the-state-of-the-city/#comment-11969 Good to read your take on this - thanks. Good to read your take on this – thanks.

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