Word: ganging
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When his teenage son was mowed down on the streets of Chicago by a reputed Latin King gang member, Stephen Young was heartbroken. When he learned how the triggerman got the gun, he was furious. The Bryco 9-mm semiautomatic handgun that killed Andrew Young was one of 40 weapons a suburban gun shop sold to a single purchaser. In gun lingo these are "straw buyers," shady middlemen who do a brisk business reselling guns to convicted felons, minors and others with itchy trigger fingers but no legal right to own a gun. "You want to tell me this...
They responded by overcompensating. Mitchell's father calls him a "gang banger wannabe." Kip bragged about his guns. Though a friend says it's a myth that he was voted "Most Likely to Start World War III" by schoolmates, one gets the sense that Kip wouldn't have minded the tag. In fact, according to people close to the investigations, after their arrests both Luke and Michael expressed a morbid appreciation of their infamy...
...have become the source of a mortal threat to the culture of Pennsylvania's Amish community. Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24 (not related) Thursday became the first Amish people ever to be arraigned on narcotics charges, after they allegedly collaborated with members of the Pagans biker gang to deal cocaine and methamphetamine at barn dances for rumschpringing Amish kids. TIME correpondent Nadya Labi notes that while the teenage time out from the conservative Amish culture has traditionally served as a safety valve for the energies of the community's young people, it may also become the portal...
...while I was eager to hang out with "the gang," I was also a bit apprehensive. What if they've all changed? What if we don't click anymore? What if we've all matured to the point where we just can't go back? I was trying to sort out two different worlds--and one was in danger of being wiped out by the other...
...predisposition to racism, it will be reinforced in prison." King was involved in a racial disturbance between Anglo and Hispanic prisoners in 1995. The Houston Chronicle reported last week that he sent letters from prison proclaiming race hatred and allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist gang founded in California's San Quentin State Prison in the 1960s. Texas prison officials declared that the tattoo found on Berry indicates membership in a white-supremacist organization. An ex-general of the Aryan Brotherhood sniffed that his group would never have recruited petty thieves like King, Berry and Brewer: "We recruit...