L.A. Gang Waged War To Eliminate Black People

By May 21, 2009 5:09 pm

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An unidentified Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy displays weapons confiscated in a gang take down before a news conferenc.

A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate black people from a Southern California city through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday.

Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 of them by early Thursday, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said at a news conference.

He called it ”the largest gang takedown in United States history” but did not elaborate.

The indictments detail attempted murder, kidnapping, firearms, narcotics and other charges related to attacks by the gang, which is predominantly Latino and mainly operates in Hawaiian Gardens, a city of about 15,000 in southeastern Los Angeles County.

”(Varrio Hawaiian Gardens) gang members take pride in their racism and often refer to the VHG Gang as the `Hate Gang,”’ the main indictment states. ”VHG gang members have expressed a desire to rid the city of Hawaiian Gardens of all African-Americans and have engaged in a systematic effort to achieve that result by perpetrating crimes against African-Americans.”

The indictment alleges a string of attacks on black residents, including a shooting into a home with eight people inside. The indictment does not say if anyone was hit.

In another instance, two gang members allegedly chased a black man, yelled a racist epithet at him and then beat him with a garden rake. The same man was later repeatedly stabbed by two gang members, according to the indictment, which charges them with his attempted murder.

According to 2000 census data, the latest available, Hawaiian Gardens was roughly 73 percent Hispanic and 4 percent black.

The indictments mark at least the second time in less than two years that federal authorities have accused Latino gang members of attacking black residents because of their race. Local officials have tried to downplay racial tensions.

The investigation of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang began in June 2005 after the murder of Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Luis Gerardo ”Jerry” Ortiz. Jose Luis Orozco, a member of the gang, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the killing.

Ortiz, 35, died as he searched for Orozco, who had shot and wounded a man while he did yard work. Orozco was later found guilty of attempted murder in that case.

”Following the murder of Deputy Ortiz, the Sheriff’s Department sought federal and local assistance to help destroy the Hawaiian Gardens gang,” O’Brien said.

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  • 12-28-2009 2:51 pm

    What about black Latinos? These are obviously mestizos….not dominicans or puerto ricans…so what about if the black ppl are hispanic? Then how would this article be written? This article makes the wrong assumption that hispanic is a race, its a point of origin. Are they specifically killing black ppl, or just non latino blacks?

  • 12-28-2009 1:28 am

    these people are going to hell

  • 12-19-2009 4:16 pm

    This is nothing new, They have been trying to eliminate black people since constantine ordered the reconstruction of biblical history, cut off the heads of black leaders and established the beginning of ethnic cleansing through “christanity”. If the california Govt. was seriously interested in dealing with gang violence, then they would ammend their laws to apply the death penality to murders associated with Gang violence.However, i would vote for life without parole since i’m not an advocate for state sponsored murder.The time is near to pay the piper though, and the piper don’t speak with no split tongue. Wow! ya’ll hear that? listen! you hear the sound of squeeling pigs???

  • 12-19-2009 12:56 pm

    I live in Northern California and we are quite aware of the situation in Southern Cal,that place is a sh*t hole anyway,lets call it what it is,and it’s Urban Terrorism,whats fueling the problem is the drugs coming in from South Of the Border you cut off the head and the body dies,these are violent drug cartel gangs roaming the streets of LA,our state and federal government has failed to time and time again to enforce policy until it ends in civil war,i’m a big supporter of the death penalty i hate gangs they are community killers very destructive they bring that prison mentality to communities they are scrum of the earth,if it was me i would hit the city with the biggest civil right lawsuit the city ever seen making LA and Sacramento responsible for the lack of protection of it’s citizens and i’m sure majority of the gangs theres not even from this country,you need to be aware it’s not LA it’s Mexico and South of the border Illegals coming to this country commiting these Crimes they commit crimes in this country and run there a** back to South America and reemerge later,so don’t be stupid and try to retaliate try to doc**ent all events if possible and send it to sacramento,your not fighting a LA street gangs your fighting Mexico and parts of south america our goovernment has been giving them and weapons and training for years and now there using it against us.

  • 12-19-2009 11:38 am

    SHT.. HAWAIIN GARDENS IS WATTS YALL! IF YoU A UPPITY BLACK PERSON.. YOU DONT GO OVER THERE! LOL! HELL NO! I DONT GO ACROSS FIGUEROA! LOL!! I STAY MY @SS ON THE WESTSIDE OF TOWN .. and IS WEST LA! SHT AS CLOSE TO THE BTCH AS POSSIBLE! NAW.. MOST MEXICANS CANT AFFORD TO LIVE ON THIS SIDE OF TOWN! THEY WORK THERE THOUGH!

  • 12-19-2009 11:33 am

    @ RUFF

    NOT REALLY HERE IN LA…IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE.. MEXICANS ONLY DONT ACT OUT WHEN THEY ARE IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS OR GREW UP AROUND BLACK PEOPLE. TRUST ME ON THIS.. THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR I FOUND MYSELF AT A CHOLO PARTY. ( ChO-LOW) (18thstreet gang showed up I sAID awww sht.. they werent suppose to be there) ANYWAY… YES.. It was weird a bit because the party was segregated… And nothing didnt happen until the end.. Between chicks and it was just an argument… BUT STILL… Those CHULAS werent very nice and they were not really friendly. They were ready to start sht…

    Anyway,,, Black people in LA dont care to be around Mexican anyway.. One more reason to stay on the Westside!

  • 12-18-2009 7:38 pm

    Man this Bulls**t is crazy!! Now I thought the hispanics were cool with the blacks, Now they on some racist kill a nigga s**t. But when I went back to Cali I spoke to a few brothers out there they said that s**t started in the prison system so once again the f**king system is trying to start up a way to f**k off black people by using them. I tell you man the sytem is trying to kill us off one way or the f**kin other.IT’S SAD!!!

  • 11-29-2009 9:42 pm

    greta…first whites…now latinos…when is it gonna end????

  • 11-18-2009 10:31 pm

    wow! black people are and will always be the most hated race. not all black people are bad people. i will never be racist towards a whole group of people, now as far as who i chose to surround myself with or date is my personal decision. i respect all people and will not exude such ignorance.

  • 11-6-2009 6:52 pm

    All this because they where gang raped in San Quentin by some lifers not associated with any gang. So you where raped repeatedly get over it not all black people are like that.

  • 11-4-2009 2:52 pm

    It’s so sad to see things like this is still going on in our hoods black and brown need to stick togather and stop all that domb bullish.

  • 11-3-2009 3:57 pm

    wow, these retards have to be inbreed. lol..I mean come one they are MExican!!! What the f**k.. they are “ethnic” They are not white. So they want to try and harm black people but then they are going to be discriminated against too..they too are racially profiled,smh.

  • 10-30-2009 2:30 pm

    I find it interesting that nothing was done to stop this sc** until a deputy sherriff was killed.

  • 10-29-2009 10:25 am

    Mrmarcus, are you forgetting any other gangs? like any ones that are “you people-ish?”

    The KKK is closely monitored by the government because they are a hate group, however there is nothing illegal about that. Only when they get violent is it deemed illegal.

  • 10-27-2009 1:31 pm

    Its a good thing that this gang has been arrested for this type of hate crime. But I have a question, isn’t the KKK a gang also, how come they are allowed to roam free about the country without facing indictments. Everyone knows their intentions yet they are not targeted by law enforcement, probably because they are white. Lets go after every racist gang in america, not only those of color.

  • 10-24-2009 10:48 am

    gangs are mainly formed when a group of people are oppressed because of who they are. this was how zoe pound and many other gangs were formed, because they get beatdown by americans in highschool, mainly black americans. so they are forced to group up and resist a common foe. as for what these idiots were trying to do in cali may thier ass burn in jail

  • 10-22-2009 7:41 am

    I agree with what SoularFlarez said before. Its mostly the prison system, gang/street politics, and the neo-nazis that are to blame for the Black/Brown tourmoil on the streets of South Los Angeles. Also the mayor, mayor villagrosa or however his name is spelled, is not doing enough to reform the prison system and crackdown on the gangs. Some mexicans do hate Blacks and anyone else that isn’t mexican BUT not all, generalizing doesn’t work nowadays, not everybody is the same. A few of the mexican gangs actually have loose truces with black gangs on the other hand some mexican gangs want blacks out of their terroritory and not just blacks, includes asians, somoans, whoever. The mexicans up north, in North California (San Fran, Oakland, etc.) Nortenos, not all but a large portion tend to ally themselves loosely with Black gangs so this whole thing is a bit of racism but its also a bit of other things.

  • 10-22-2009 7:40 am

    I agree with what SoularFlarez said before. Its mostly the prison system, gang/street politics, and the neo-nazis that are to blame for the Black/Brown tourmoil on the streets of South Los Angeles. Also the mayor, mayor villagrosa or however his name is spelled, is not doing enough to reform the prison system and crackdown on the gangs. Some mexicans do hate Blacks and anyone else that isn’t mexican BUT not all, generalizing doesn’t work nowadays, not everybody is the same. A few of the mexican gangs actually have loose truces with black gangs on the other hand some mexican gangs want blacks out of their terroritory and not just blacks, includes asians, somoans, whoever. The mexicans up north, in North California (San Fran, Oakland, etc.) Nortenos, not all but a large portion tend to ally themselves loosely with Black gangs so this who thing is a bit of racism but its also a bit of other things.

  • 10-20-2009 4:12 pm

    the Mexican(ANUhuacan/Aztec) people are our family(children)….

    but its west coast GANG-POLITICS & white-supremacy (divide and conquer) that is instigating brown VS black violence.

    Surenos/13-XIII + NeoNazis VERSUS Nortenos-XIV/Crips/Bloods/BGF/415/etc

    *California is named after our black-queen CALIFIA (Kali)

  • 10-19-2009 8:24 pm

    TO KIMCONCHRIS! Since I’ve made my move, walked away, etc., life has been grand & the closest I get to those fool’s are seeing their IGORNANT A**’S on TV, reading about them DAILY or in passing! So life is grand & will be grand for ANY sane person(s) who will avoid getting close or living close enough to breath the same air those fool’s breath! PEACE TO YOU! P.S. As far as the Self Appointed Saviors of the Black Race, JJ, Sr., & Sharpton! Someday? The majority of none white people WILL open up their eye’s & see them for what they really are!

  • 10-19-2009 2:53 pm

    toni_anthony i hear you loud&clear.and when i said 100% i was meaning you mentally, i said i hope your not out of your mind,you should be 100%.and me bidding you well, i said peace.stay up and ready! peace! good point, but you cant let everything rub you the wrong way,it wont feel good.

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