I got a ridiculous comment on this post yesterday from some racist named Jose Cuenca that implied that Latino gang violence aimed at terrorizing Black Americans was nothing to be alarmed about and further more the only solution was to sit back and let the situation play out. A final solution so to speak.
Cuenca’s main point was that the “undocumented” had it worse than the Black Americans who are being murdered, and that my simply reporting the situation was making things worse.
Not worse for innocent Black folk getting murdered by Latino gangbangers mind you, but the people who really deserve our sympathy, you know, the ones whose first act on American soil was to break our immigration laws. I’ll let his vile words speak for themselves:
As for your “medias biases,†that’s absurd. Many Latino’s in America are either undocumented, or just a few generations removed from undocumentation. As a result, they live in a state of paranoia and do all they can trying to avoid law enforcement for fear of deportation. You think being Black in America is difficult, try to imaging living with the constant fear of deportation. As a result, many crimes towards Latinos are not even reported do to this same paranoia. When that poor 14 year old Black girl was killed by 204 Street Gang Members, it received a lot of attention (as it should have, horrible incident!), but they failed to mention that it was done in retaliation for a young Latino boy who killed just a week earlier by Black Gang Members.
His minimizing of the murder of a 14 year old girl by linking it to gang violence she wasn’t involved in is absolutely disgusting, but par for the course for people like Cuecna. After all one Black kid is the same as the next in his estimation, so an innocent little girl is no more unlikely a target than a violent felon. To Cuecna a Latino gang members yarn about killing a child as “retaliation” for something or another is an acceptable explanation for the most degenerate of acts.
Is there nothing someone like Jose Cuecna can accept? Is there no act of depravity from his precious “undocumented” and their descendants that he finds unpalatable? How about this:
A 6-year-old black boy was critically wounded Tuesday when he was shot in the head by suspected Latino gang members as the victim’s family drove through the Harbor Gateway neighborhood on their way to an auto auction, Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton said.
Two Latino males flashed gang signs before opening fire on the red GMC Yukon with six people inside, including a woman who is eight months pregnant, Bratton said. The rear window of the SUV was shattered by the gunfire, and one of the rounds hit the boy in the head, he said.
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The shooting caps several weeks of violent incidents believed to involve gangs around Los Angeles County that have sparked both fear and anger in some neighborhoods. Earlier this week, a Los Angeles High School football player was gunned down in what authorities described as an unprovoked attack by gang members. Last week, a gang member opened fire at a bus stop in South Los Angeles, wounding eight people, including five children. Before that, a gun battle between LAPD officers and gang members outside a Glassell Park school caused much of the community to be locked down for hours.
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Police said the family of the victim in Tuesday’s shooting was not from the Harbor Gateway neighborhood, which is known for racial tensions between Latino gangs and black residents. Other passengers inside the vehicle were a man and a woman and two other children, ages 3 and 1 1/2 .
There were no other reported injuries, police said.
Police cordoned off two blocks Tuesday afternoon as they launched a massive search for the two suspects, one described as between the ages of 28 and 30, heavyset, wearing a white T-shirt and black pants; the other, between ages 16 and 20, with a shaved head and possibly a mustache, wearing blue jeans and riding a racing bicycle.
Bratton did not say whether the suspects had ties to a specific gang, but he noted that the neighborhood is home to the East Side Torrance gang. “This is an area that is under the influence of a Latino gang,” Bratton said. “You may recall that about a year or so ago, the mayor and I were engaged in a major initiative up the street at 204th Street, where there had been the shooting death of a young black woman.”
Bratton was referring to the killing of 14-year-old Cheryl Green in December 2006. Two members of the 204th Street gang allegedly shot Green as she stood talking with friends.
The suspects were later caught and charged with murder, along with a special hate crime allegation. They are still awaiting trial.
A carload of mostly women and children was fired on by two men, one of whom is at least 30 years old and so we assume not naive enough to think an SUV with a pregnant woman and a bunch of kids is a legitimate gang affiliated target.
There were no other injuries. Almost as if the two men aimed for the kid. And this follows several unprovoked attacks in an area controled by a gang that has members already being charged with hate crimes.
But according to Jose Cuecna it takes two to tango and Blacks are responsible for their being targeted:
Hmmmm. So you feel this problem is attributed just to the influx of Latin American Culture being forced into historically African-American Communities? Interesting and naive. I agree it’s a clash of cultures but to suggest it’s one sided is moronic! It takes two opposing sides to create a clash.
Hopefully this problem will fade out with a limited amount of death and violence. I won’t pretend that I know how to fix it, I though I wish I could. If you have any desire to fix it, please stop covering it! This type of journalism is just fuel to the fire.
In other words Jose wants to claim Blacks are equally responsible for these attacks despite the lack of evidence to the contrary, and there’s nothing else to see here so I should just move along. Move along and wait until it’s some member of my family that’s being murdered, or I’m sure Jose is hoping that it’s me laying dead somewhere.
Disgusting.
Update: Police have made an arrest. L.A. Times has exclusive video of the savage arrested for shooting a 6 year old boy.