Word: banger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obeying every traffic signal as he furiously works through his options. Definitely don't want to be stopped by the police, really don't want to fire this gun and sure as hell don't want to disappoint the gang. Absolute ground zero in the mind of a gang banger. "I'm thinking it through, and finally it comes to decision time." Jimmy wheels the Honda toward a group of faceless teenagers hanging on a corner in rival turf and blasts seven rounds into the crowd, wounding three...
...survive no matter what law enforcement does. Joseph ("Downer") Cardenas, 16, a member of a South Central Chicano gang, was charged last week with felony assault with a shotgun. (He has denied the charge.) He recently asked his 11-year-old brother whether he wanted to be a gang banger. He was happy to hear the boy say no. Yet the chances are better than even that the youngster will follow in Joseph's footsteps. Joseph didn't want to be a gang banger either, but he followed the path paved by another Cardenas brother, Juan, 19, who is serving...