{"id":1846,"date":"2007-12-31T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2007-12-31T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T17:29:01","slug":"la-gang-f13-accused-of-targeting-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"LA Gang F13 Accused of Targeting Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20071230\/D8TRVJ6O0.html\">Thomas Watkins writes<\/a> (and I have more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/tony_rafael.htm\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; In a murderous quest aimed at &quot;cleansing&quot; their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County&#8217;s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.<\/p>\n<p>There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings of black gangsters and then, when the intended victim couldn&#8217;t be located, said &quot;Well, shoot any black you see,&quot; Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In certain cases some murders were just purely motivated on killing a black person,&quot; Baca said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say there were 20 murders among more than 80 shootings documented during the gang&#8217;s rampage in the hardscrabble Florence-Firestone neighborhood, exceptional even in an area where gang violence has been commonplace for decades. They don&#8217;t specify the time frame or how many of the killings were racial.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Watkins writes (and I have more here): LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; In a murderous quest aimed at &quot;cleansing&quot; their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County&#8217;s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}