Streetgangs.com Staff March 30, 2012 | 8:10 p.m. PST Many conservative news outlets have complained about the way the shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, shooting has been represented in the media for the last two weeks. Last month, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, 28, shot and killed Martin in the gated community where the two had [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff March 27, 2012 | 1:15 p.m. PST An internal LAPD investigation found that motorcycle officer Patrick Smith, a 15-year veteran, was guilty of racial profiling. The report found that Smith, a white police officer stopped Hispanic drivers because of their race, according to the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper also stated it was [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 16, 2012 | 1:55 p.m. PST The New York Knicks are one of the hottest teams in the NBA, having won seven straight games since making Jeremy Lin the starting point guard. Lin is the NBA’s first American-born player of Chinese descent, and is has been impressive thus far, with 13 assists [...]
Michael Lacey (Phoenix New Times) | January 12, 2012 The Department of Justice, following a three-year investigation, identified Sheriff Joe Arpaio as overseer of the worst pattern of racial profiling in the history of the nation. A week later, on December 23, 2011, federal Judge C. Murray Snow allowed all Latino victims of the racial [...]
KABC | August 13, 2011 LOS ANGELES — The number of hate crimes against Hispanics in California has nearly doubled, according to the state attorney general. There were 119 recorded hate crimes against Hispanics in 2010, compared to 81 just a year earlier. That amounts to a 47-percent increase. While anti-Hispanic hate crimes were up, [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff June 28, 2011 | 12:36 p.m. McDonald’s has posted on their Twitter link that the photo indicating a surcharge for African-American is a hoax. The photo has been online for over a year, but has recently been mass circulated. The sign states, “Please Note: As an insurance measure due in part to a [...]
StreetGangs.Com Staff Feb 15 2011 | 2:25 p.m. The National Enquirer is reporting that OJ Simpson, 63, was severely beat down by white skin heads in Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center. Simpson is serving time for his role in a kidnap and armed robbery of sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas in September 2007. White supremacists [...]
StreetGangs.Com Staff February 14 2011 | 2:41 p.m. A candidate for United States House of Representatives, was sentenced this morning to one year and one day in federal prison for his conviction last year on a federal obstruction of justice charge stemming from lies he told to California investigators about his involvement in a misleading [...]
Maria L. LaGanga (LA Times) July 6, 2010 Oakland residents prepared for a verdict in the Johannes Mehserle shooting trial Tuesday with a mixture of apprehension and hope that the city’s historically disempowered youth would express themselves peacefully. With the case now in the hands of the jury, a law enforcement incident command post has [...]
http://news.ncmonline.com 5/04/2010 LOS ANGELES — La Opinión reported last month that 22 killings in 13 days brought a surprising end to Los Angeles’ low crime trend of recent years. In a follow-up story Monday, the Spanish-language daily reports that the majority of those killed were black and Latino youth. In Los Angeles County, 32 percent [...]
Associated Press May 3rd 2010 HEMET — A suspected white supremacist has pleaded not guilty to possessing the same kind of homemade gun used in a booby trap intended to kill a police officer in Riverside County. Patrick Nugent Jr. entered pleas on April 23 to having a zip gun and being in a criminal [...]
Chip Johnson April 30th 2010 The gang members who opened fire at a funeral service in East Oakland on Tuesday should be prosecuted under state and federal hate crime statutes. Firing a weapon into or inside a house of worship packed with mourners is about as direct an assault on an individual’s religious beliefs as [...]
Photos: Los Angeles Riots in 1992 and 20 years later (page 1 of 2)
Los Angeles Riots property damage from 1992 and 1997
Funeral Service for Rolland Miller in Los Angeles
Candle light vigil for Rolland “Rocky” Miller turns out hundreds of friends
McDonald’s sign charging Blacks a surcharge is fake
James Whitey Bulger photos through the years