Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have so many different kinds of people that it's easy to find a niche," says Pinkard. "It seems like students feel comfortable with each other--they all just want to be one of the gang...
...Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts of how he taught his "Okie" friend to scream "Kill the gringos" in Spanish at the cheap movie theater he and his gang of "Indios" sneaked into seven-for-the-price...
...discern the potency of the force of racism still at play in the White Media from the controversy which erupted last month when USA Today published on its Feb. 16 front page a photograph of five angry-looking young Black men holding guns to accompany a story about gang violence in Los Angeles...
...blatant lie," one of the men said in a Feb. 20 Washington Post story. "They wrote what they wanted, what would get more papers sold. Our intention was to give up guns, to get some jobs, to better ourselves. They portrayed us as hard-core criminal gang members who are ready to incite a riot...
...since it was enacted in 1988, a federal statute has been invoked to permit capital punishment for violent drug traffickers. In this case, the sentencing came against a trio of brutal Richmond, Virginia, cocaine dealers who murdered 11 people over a two-month period while running a lucrative crack gang called the New York Boyz. In one instance the gang burst into the house of a woman who owed them a few hundred dollars and shot her dead...