I get the occasional email or comment insinuating that my coverage of Latino hate crimes against my fellow Americans of African descent somehow skews the data and makes it look like there’s a problem with racism in Latino communities when there is none. I guess it is my insistence that our government protect Black citizens from third world aggression coloring my perceptions of yet another murder of a young Black person by a Latino gang banger with a long history of criminality, because I think this is most certainly a hate crime.
From the L.A. Times:
A young convict and alleged gang member had been released from jail a little more than a day before he shot and killed Los Angeles High School football star Jamiel Shaw Jr., LAPD Chief William J. Bratton said Tuesday.
On the same day mourners attended the 17-year-old’s funeral in the Crenshaw district, authorities announced that the alleged gunman, Pedro Espinoza, 19, had been formally charged with Shaw’s death. Espinoza, according to officials, is a member of the 18th Street gang and had spent nearly four months in a Los Angeles County jail for exhibiting a firearm and resisting arrest before he was released March 1, 28 hours before Shaw’s death.
“It was spontaneous,” Bratton said of the killing. “He was a gang member. He saw someone else he thought was from an opposing gang and he immediately, almost intuitively, popped out of that car and shot that young boy twice.
“He assassinated him just on the belief the other individual may have been a gang member. That is what we are up against in this city, sociopaths like that who just got out of jail and within a day had a gun and in an instant took that young boy’s life.”
The charge of murder with special circumstance enhancements could carry the death penalty.
Shaw, who was not a gang member, was only three doors from his home in Arlington Heights on March 2 when he was fatally shot. Two men in a car had pulled up next to him, asked if he belonged to a gang, and then shot him when he apparently didn’t answer, authorities say.
Notice how little respect for the law Pedro Espinoza displayed in his short life, and the vile arrogance of a man who, only out of jail for a few hours, just randomly decides to hop out of a car and shoot somebody he suspected of being in a gang. And by suspected we of course mean Jamiel was Black and Espinoza just assumed he was a gang member.
At least that’s the media narrative, the real truth is that the Mexican Mafia has green lighted any Black person at any place at any time for murder. Rumor is most other Latino gangs have followed suit. It’s less likely that Espinoza really thought Shaw was a gang member and more likely this was a hate crime.
Not that the MSM will report that. Instead they prefer a narrative where Blacks are responsible, at least in part, for being targeted by Latino gangs. It helps them sleep at night when their support for liberal immigration policies facilitate the mass murder of African-Americans.