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WATCH Gang Ran 'Campaign of Hate' Against Migrants Blacks jump overboard from rescue ship after A Latino gang accused of attempting a racial cleansing of being denied African Americans in Azusa, Calif., has been indicted for a port in Italy federal rights conspiracy, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Prior federal cases involving street have included racial violence allegations, but this indictment is only the second time in history that federal civil rights laws have been used against members of a criminal street gang.

"Azusa 13 waged a campaign of hate against African Americans—a two-decade crime spree in which African- Americans were harassed and attacked," said Andre These German Hearing Birotte Jr., the U.S. Attoreny for the Central District of Aids Are Going Viral California. hear.com Learn more »

A federal grand jury issued a 24-count indictment last You should keep your week that charges the 51 defendants with a broad range home at 78 of crimes including extortion, robbery and murder. degrees, coolest, federal The three-year investigation of the Varrio Azusa 13 gang program suggests culminated this week in an early morning raid involving almost 400 law enforcement officials. Azusa is a city of Ebola outbreak 45,000 people located about 30 minutes northeast of Los reaches Angeles. Only 3 percent of this population is African remote, militia-run American, while over 65 percent is Hispanic. territory in Democratic Republic of "What is underlying this whole thing is a belief held by Congo some people that the Mexican Mafia ordered essentially a Armed man racial cleansing in some Latino neighborhoods," said Thom holding 37 Mrozek, the public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's people on bus hostage Office. in Rio de Janeiro

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"This has been a 20 year conspiracy to violate the civil Italian PM Conte to rights of African Americans in the city," said Detective resign after League party Robert Landeros of the Azusa Police Department. There pulls backing are incidents involving this gang from 1992 to May 2010, according to the Azusa police. Severe storms targeting Midwest, Six members of the Azusa gang have been charged with Northeast as civil rights violations for harassing and sometimes West stays hot attacking African Americans, either to push them out of the city or to keep them from moving there. Pompeo defends loyalty to The gang has about 400 members with 50 indicted Trump amid past yesterday. According to the indictment, 23 are already in comments, custody and 12 fugitives are still being sought. renewed scrutiny

The number 13 attached to the name of many gangs in The Note: The question Southern California indicates a connection to the Mexican of electability Mafia, the that controls Azusa 13. "M" is the hangs everywhere 13th letter in the alphabet.

Reps. Omar and Tlaib call According to U.S. Attorney Birotte, the Mexican Mafia gets on a slice of the Azusa gang's profits from drug sales. In colleagues to visit Israel exchange, the Mexican Mafia allows them to maintain without them control of their territory and protects them within the prison system. As Trump, negotiators work toward peace, The Azusa raid is the most recent attempt in Southern attacks California to control tension between Hispanic gangs and highlight violent African Americans. realities

Trump In 2009, over 140 members of the Varrio Hawaiian appears to Gardens gang were charged for racially-driven crimes, and back away from stronger in 2007 members of two other gangs in the gun sale area were arrested for racial hate crimes. background checks According to Operation Safe Streets, a branch of the Los President Angeles Sheriff's office, there are 1,100 documented gangs Trump in Los Angeles County. dismisses fears of US economic recession "This is all part of gang culture," said Sgt. Byron Wainie of the OSS. He says that the violence is "sometimes on racial Bernie lines, sometimes based on geographic lines and Sanders and 'Killer Mike' sometimes narcotics related." talk race, faith and hurt in America Jorge Luis Martinez, Detective Supervisor at the Gangs and Narcotics Division of the Los Angeles Police 2020 hopeful Beto Department, agrees that the racial issue is one of many. O'Rourke "There is a rash of gangs that sometimes commit visited an Arkansas completely racial crimes, but it's much less than gang-on- gun show to talk about gang crimes," Martinez said. gun control

Most of the gang members indicted this week are facing Trump rule to make it possible prison sentences of at least 10 years if convicted. tougher to prove discriminatory "This gang has waged an insidious two decade campaign housing practices of violence fueled not only buy drug dealing, but also by racial hatred," Birotte said, "We hope that this case will Warren at signal an end to all this behavior and will help vindicate all Native American of the victims who have suffered over the years." forum: 'I am sorry for harm I have caused'

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