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Gang Members Use &#39;Community Guns&#39;
Gang Members Use 'Community Guns'
Feb 11, 2012 5:09 PM CST

Gang Members Use 'Community Guns'

New York gangsters grab pistols kept in hiding spots

(Newser) - Radiators, bushes, and wheel wells are popular. Garbage pails, too. All are handy hiding spots for the so-called "community gun" that New York gang members are turning to in times of need. After shooting someone, the New York Times reports, they kindly put it back. Today's economy might...

El Salvador Sees Record in Murders

With more than 4K, 2011 worst year since civil war ended

(Newser) - Ridden with gang violence, El Salvador saw more murders this year than it has in any year since its civil war ended in 1992, police say. Of the country's 6.1 million people, some 4,308 were murdered in 2011, breaking the 2009 record of 4,223 and marking...

Insane Clown Posse Fans Are 'Gang Threat': FBI

Listeners listed alongside Crips, Bloods

(Newser) - If rappers Insane Clown Posse have a show in your town, lock your windows and bolt your door: Their fans, who call themselves Juggalos, are officially a “gang threat,” according to the FBI. Their inclusion in the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment apparently puts them in a league...

Teen Arrested in Shooting of Hero Brooklyn Mom

Andrew Lopez admits to shooting spree

(Newser) - An 18-year-old gang member has confessed to killing a pregnant mom, who died on Friday as she shielded a group of children from bullets, but insisted he “did not mean to shoot the ladies,” sources tell the New York Daily News . In addition to Zurana Horton—who was...

Offensive Ad's Creator to Critics: 'Suck it'

Turn Right USA not apologizing for ad many are calling racist, sexist

(Newser) - If you were offended by the Turn Right USA ad featuring machine-gun-toting gangsters ordering a Democratic candidate for Congress to "Give me your cash, bitch, so we can shoot up the streets,” well, tough. Ladd Ehlinger Jr, the conservative filmmaker who created the ad, tells Salon that critics...

Is This Most Racist, Sexist Political Ad Ever?

'Give us your cash, ho, so we can shoot up the streets,' chant gangsters

(Newser) - The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is blasting what could be the most stunningly racist, sexist campaign ad in history. The web ad, produced by the ultra conservative Turn Right USA PAC , features machine-gun toting black ganstas ordering "bitch" and "ho" Democratic candidate for Congress Janice Hahn to give...

81 Busted in LA Gang Sweep
 81 Busted in LA Gang Sweep 
Apr 29, 2011 2:24 AM CDT

81 Busted in LA Gang Sweep

Rancho San Pedro gang dealt 'crippling blow'

(Newser) - "Slick," Scrappy," "Boner," "Toker," "Fat Boy," and scores of other gangsters have been taken off the streets of the Los Angeles Harbor area after a series of massive raids. More than 1,300 federal and local police officers arrested 81 gangsters...

Killer Nailed by Tattoo Murder 'Confession'

LA gangster tattooed crime scene on his chest

(Newser) - Los Angeles gangster Anthony Garcia would have gotten away with a 2004 murder outside a liquor store if it wasn't for one slip-up: He tattooed a detailed mural of the crime scene across his chest. By chance, a detective who worked on the case saw the tattoo when flipping...

Another 11-Year-Old Gang Raped

Seven teens, one 19-year-old arrested for bathroom assault in California

(Newser) - Police in Moreno Valley, Calif., have arrested seven teens and one 19-year-old for allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom. The victim says she was about to get on a bus when a 15-year-old girl asked if she wanted to hang out at a nearby shopping center. The...

Three Somali Gangs Busted for US Child Sex Ring

And separately, FBI arrests 99 pimps, frees 69 child prostitutes

(Newser) - Two major victories against child prostitution today: Twenty-nine people have been indicted in a sex trafficking ring in which Somali gangs in Minneapolis allegedly forced girls under age 14 into prostitution in at least three states, according to an indictment unsealed today. The indictment said one of the gangs' goals...

9 People Shot in Chicago in Gang Violence

One of the victims was an innocent bystander

(Newser) - Nine people were shot at a bus turnaround in southside Chicago last night. The victims—eight males and one female, the latter an apparent innocent bystander—are expected to recover. Police speculate the shootings were gang-related. Four victims are members of the Gangster Disciples and one is a Vice Lord....

Gangs Riot in Times Square
 Gangs Riot in Times Square 
Apr 5, 2010 7:00 AM CDT

Gangs Riot in Times Square

Three shot, 30 arrested in annual 'gang initiation day'

(Newser) - Flocksof gangbangers descended on Times Square to wreak havoc last night, in what has become something of an Easter tradition. Hundreds of police were on hand, but they struggled to disperse the young people as they burst into stores and harassed pedestrians. “There's a lot of young kids outside...

San Quentin: Yes, It's on Yelp
 San Quentin: Yes, It's on Yelp 
FOURSQUARE, TOO
Feb 22, 2010 10:22 PM CST

San Quentin: Yes, It's on Yelp

Many reviews from tourists' ex-cons hate the food

(Newser) - Perhaps he was doing research into convicts and social media , but whatever the reason he was looking, MG Siegler is surprised to find California’s forbidding San Quentin state prison on Yelp (FourSquare, too). And though many of the 19 reviews are dedicated to tours and other open-to-the-public features, there...

Tour Bus Shows Off LA's Gangland

Sign a waiver and hop aboard for your slice of thug life

(Newser) - Good news, aspiring gangbangers: Now you, too, can roll through the hood, inside a tour bus. LA Gang Tours is open for business, NPR reports. For a mere $65, tourists are guaranteed a “first-hand encounter” with “top crime scene locations in South Central,” led by a guide...

Los Angeles Gangs Make Peace to Boost Profits

Blood red and Crip blue make green

(Newser) - After decades of violent conflict, Los Angeles gangs like the Bloods and Crips are joining together across racial divides and neighborhood turf lines—not to end their life of crime, but to make more money from it. Gang violence in Southern California has plummeted in recent years as longtime enemy...

London Mayor Rescues Woman From Tweens
 London Mayor Rescues 
 Woman From Tweens 
WHEN 12-YEAR-OLDS ATTACK
Nov 4, 2009 1:11 PM CST

London Mayor Rescues Woman From Tweens

Big Boris rides by at the right time

(Newser) - London Mayor Boris Johnson came to the rescue of a woman beset by a group of “feral” 12-year-old girls. “One of them had an iron bar in her hand,” the woman recalls to the Guardian . “It was as big as her.” Just then, the wild-haired...

Gangs Down Police Chopper as Rio Burns
 Gangs Down 
 Police Chopper 
 as Rio Burns 
2016 Olympics
Oct 18, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

Gangs Down Police Chopper as Rio Burns

But Brazil says it's working on security issues for 2016 Games

(Newser) - Brazilian officials are insisting security won't be a problem for its just-won 2016 Olympics despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into a day of bloody chaos that saw gangs shoot down a police helicopter, killing two cops and injuring four. The hourslong turf war between rival gangs in...

Chicago Student's Beating Death Caught on Tape

Police beef up patrols after savage gang melee

(Newser) - Chicago police are stepping up patrols today at a high school where a 16-year-old honor student's gruesome beating death in a gang melee was captured on video. Students scream in horror as Derrion Albert crumples to the ground and covers his head in vain as he's repeatedly pummeled with wooden...

Infant Killed in LA Gang Shooting

Baby boy killed as he's fed in a parked car

(Newser) - A 4-month-old baby boy was fatally wounded in a gang confrontation as he was being fed in a parked car in Los Angeles, police said. Andrew Garcia was rushed to a local hospital where he died. A pregnant family friend who was feeding Andrew was wounded. A teen with criminal...

Director of Gang Documentary Shot Dead

French filmmaker falls victim to violence he recorded in El Salvador

(Newser) - The director of a documentary about the brutal gang life in El Salvador was himself the victim of gang violence, shot dead in a car 10 miles outside San Salvador, the Independent reports. Christian Poveda, a 52-year-old French filmmaker, directed La Vida Loca, which aired locally and hits France this...

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