Friday, December 11, 2009
ARE THERE RACIAL TENSIONS BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND LATINOS: FACT OR FICTION?
RECENTLY, THERE HAVE BEEN HATE CRIMES BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND LATINOS IN HIGH SCHOOLS WITHIN THE AREA OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND SURROUNDING CITIES. ONE RECENT CASE WAS THE RACIAL ATTACK THAT THE ENDED IN RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL ON MAY 9, 2008. RACIAL CRIMES HAVE MOVED FROM STREETS TO SCHOOLS NOW, CREATING RACIAL TENSIONS, DIVISIONS, AND CRIME. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO CAUSE RACIAL CRIMES BETWEENS LATINOS AND BLACK PEOPLE? WHEN DID RACIAL TENSION BEGIN? COULD IT BE STOPPED?
CCPOA
Authorities say inmates at a California prison used canes, walkers and wheelchair parts as weapons in fights that sent 24 prisoners to hospitals and forced the facility to be put on lockdown. Administrators are investigating the violence Monday between rival Latino gangs at Avenal State Prison. Spokeswoman Terry Thornton of the California ...
http://www.ccpoa.org/news/index.php?tag=prison-riot
http://www.ccpoa.org/news/index.php?tag=prison-riot
1 Dead, 16 Injured in California Prison Riot
SACRAMENTO — A fight involving more than three dozen inmates at Kern Valley State Prison has left one prisoner dead and 16 others injured, corrections officials said Thursday.
Four of the wounded were shot by guards as they attempted to break up the Wednesday afternoon melee.
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton said 23-year-old Oscar Cruz was taken to a hospital after he was stabbed by other inmates. He died on the operating table at Delano Regional Medical Center...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509830,00.html
Four of the wounded were shot by guards as they attempted to break up the Wednesday afternoon melee.
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton said 23-year-old Oscar Cruz was taken to a hospital after he was stabbed by other inmates. He died on the operating table at Delano Regional Medical Center...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509830,00.html
Hundreds Hurt in California Prison Riot
LOS ANGELES — Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55.
The 11-hour riot, at the Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, broke down along racial lines, with black prison gangs fighting Latino gangs in hand-to-hand combat, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/us/10prison.html?_r=1
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