Based Mayor calls out Street gangs for not resisting ICE Raids.
Based Mayor calls out Street gangs for not resisting ICE Raids.
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California official criticized for appearing to call on gangs to intervene in immigration raids
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Girl it’s your cops that would arrest them if they kill any kidnappers
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Hey if ICE can deputize pigs then I say a mayor deputizing street gangs is fair game.
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Sorry but if she's expecting much from street gangs who are responsible for a fuckton of deaths idk what to tell you. Some of em started off as protecting their hoods because the US had it out for them but these ain't the ones Fred Hampton put on a truce. Most of these dudes sell poison to their own and look out for number 1.
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once they get to a certain point, they operate like a capitalist organizations, profits first, and their victims are usually within their own hood.
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no more half measures walter
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I was just thinking this: where are all the gangs in all of this?
They’ve always been this cowardly?
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ICE has been very deliberate in targeting the most defenseless people and communities and are avoiding anywhere known to have gangs.
They're showing up at court hearings and elementary school graduations instead
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They're showing up at court hearings and elementary school graduations instead
The Israeli method
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Yes. Big gangs have historically been an unofficial arm of the CIA.
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That's not how you do it. Use mafia rules, you smile and nod and then and then whack em later when nobody is looking.
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damn, she sounds cool as hell lmao. pretty hardcore to call out the local gangs for cowardice at not standing up to the federal thugs.
I seem to recall a lot of "gangs" in the US originate from minority ethnic community defence organizations, to push back against particularly egregious mistreatment by the hegemonic political project, right? I mean, they thrive because our security apparatus serves capital, not communities.
not saying that gang leaders are heroes of the working class and champions of the oppressed, but the distinction between them and the thugs with badges can get blurry here.
God I will butcher it, but I remember someone asking about the revolutionary potential of gangs in the US. They asked it as politely as can be and got a pessimistic response. Why did they think the revolutionary potential low? I don't have a clue. I didn't think it would come up again
I still remember a thread where someone was talking about the revolutionary potential of modern lumpen making "lumpenproletariat" not a great class distinction, and one of the top comments was some snide "Lumpen drug runners aren't gunna' help us do communism, dude." Oh really? Why not? Seems like the people forced out of any "legal" means of selling their labor to survive would be primed for revolution. To me a lot of that thread read like hexbears with unexamined classism and even unintentional and unexamined racism. So-called "gang-affiliated" "criminals" are more often just members of ad-hoc organizations within marginalized communities struggling to survive within a system that wants to see them be literal slaves or cease to exist. Liberals spit on these "gang members" meanwhile white supremacist gangs are called "cops" and liberals honor them at every opportunity and expect complete deference to them. Most "gangs" may not be at all Marxist yet, but they have extremely high revolutionary potential.
Most of the gangs in and around LA are remnants of the Black Panther Party. After the BPP was undermined and killed off, splintered factions broke off trying to rebuild, but ended up descending more and more into crime. The original Crips were formed to protect themselves from cops and eventually these offshoots of the BPP, who (by the 1970s) had become little more than bandits.
Source? the crips formed during the decline of the BPP but not directly from remnants, bloods/piru formed in reaction to crips, surenos, nortenos, Asian boys, tiny rascals didn't
Nazi lowriders, PEN1 really didn't
A lot of these groups were effectively deputised into the local distribution arm of the CIA through people like Freeway Rick Ross