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...cook, Joe Diaz, was once a dishwasher. Now, Carreiro says, "the cook is almost as good...
...gang only as a last resort. "It beats getting killed or blowing somebody's brains out," he explains. Most antigang workers are adamantly against such advice under any conditions. "That would be like telling the kid to go kill himself," says Swope. Then there are folks like Marianne Diaz-Parton, a gang- intervention worker for the Community Youth Gang Services Project in Los Angeles, who actually condone the beatings...
...Diaz-Parton, 33, joined Los Compadres at 13 and served three years in prison for shooting two rival gang members with a sawed-off shotgun. Since "retiring," she is frequently asked by frightened female gang members trying to get out of gangs to monitor their beatings. "They know I've got juice with the gangs," she says with considerable pride. She recalls the case of Priscilla, a 15-year-old who wanted out. Three other girls, all gang bangers, took Priscilla into a public rest room while Diaz-Parton waited outside to make sure things didn...
McReady also said she met with Dowling on June8, 1989, two weeks before her husband was fired.According to McReady, Dowling told her he mightfind Diaz a job somewhere in the University wherehe could "be with his own kind...
...February 13, 1990 decision on Diaz's uniongrievance, Powers ruled that Diaz had sufficientunion representation and said McReady's andTravers' accounts of conversations with Dowlingwere not credible. McReady disputed that, sayingshe never spoke with Powers and was not allowedinto the January 1990 hearing...