In a massive early-morning raid, more than a THOUSAND police officers and federal agents, in full-body armor, arrested members of the most violent and dangerous gang in LA known as "the Avenues." Gang members are Latinos and profess a hatred for blacks. Officers arrested 45 of 88 people named in arrest warrants, including Tammy Armstrong, a corrections officer who cooperates with inmates.
A friend of mine whom we'll call Chaim was manic and took off for California in his early twenties. He was fearless and tireless and walked for hours and hours ending up in East Los Angeles, a place where few white boys wanna go.
The Avenues gang is controlled by the Mexican drug mafia behind bars. They find stooges like Ms. Armstrong who smuggle in cellphones and act as secretaries and go-fers for the criminals.
For more meaty reading about gangs, click on the NY Times story here, (from which I cribbed for this blogpost), the LA Times story here, and a very sad story about a white woman who married a black man and had a beautiful half-black son (no not Obama) who was targeted by the Avenues and shot dead in his bed.
O how the greatest accident of all - who we're born to - determine our fates!
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