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Seven Los Angeles Men Charged for Firebombing African-American Residences | OPA | Department of Justice
"The defendants used firebombs to drive the victims from their homes because of their race,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This is a hate crime. Such violence and intimidation have no place in our society.”
"Carlos Hernandez, aka Creeper and Rider, 31; Jose Saucedo, aka Lil’ Moe, 22; Francisco Farias, aka Bones, 25; Joseue Garibay, aka Malo, 23; Edwin Felix, aka Boogie, 23; Jonathan Portillo, aka Pelon, 21; and Joel Matthew Monarrez, aka Gallo, 21, were charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights; conspiracy to use fire and carry explosives to commit another federal felony; attempted arson of federal property; using fire and carrying explosives to commit another federal felony; aiding and abetting; violent crime in aid of racketeering and interference with housing rights. Hernandez and Farias were also charged with possessing, using, carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, and Felix was also charged with making a false statement to the FBI."
LA Times article:
Latino gang members firebombed black residents to drive them out of Boyle Heights project, prosecutors allege
Boyle Heights firebomb attack indictment
The charges are the latest in several criminal accusations over the last two decades against Latino street gangs that used violence to push rival black gangs out of certain neighborhoods. A few years ago, federal prosecutors charged members of a Latino gang with a campaign to push blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood that allegedly resulted in 20 homicides over three years. In the Harbor Gateway district of L.A., a Latino gang was accused of targeting African Americans, including 14-year-old Cheryl Green, whose death became a rallying point against such attacks. Members of the Avenues, a Latino gang in Highland Park, were convicted of a series of assaults and killings in the early 1990s.
In the Ramona Garden case, prosecutors described the defendants as members of the Big Hazard street gang, an Eastside gang that dates back to the 1940s. The charges included conspiring to violate civil rights, interfering with housing rights, committing violent crime to aid racketeering, and using fire and carrying explosives to commit a federal felony.
For more than a generation, keeping blacks out of the housing complex seemed a point of pride for Big Hazard.
On Aug. 30, 1992, an explosion ripped through the pantry of a Ramona Gardens apartment where a black couple and their seven children lived. When they ran outside they realized that another black family across the street had been attacked just minutes earlier.
At the time, only seven black families lived in the project. But after the attack they began to quickly pack up and leave.
The firebombings ushered in a nearly 20-year period in which virtually no blacks lived at Ramona Gardens. Big Hazard had deep connections to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, which influenced Latino gangs and directed attacks on blacks.
Surveillance video shows suspects in firebombing at Ramona Gardens, a Boyle Heights housing project, in May 2014. (Los Angeles Police Department)
Eventually black families started moving back to Ramona Gardens, a sign of progress in a community and a city that had largely put aside the violence of the 1990s. But even then, a gang said to no longer hold the sway that it once did tried to intimidate black residents into leaving. Some threats were verbal. Others came in the form of slurs, like the one written in the dust accumulated on the car of one black resident. In at least one case, a rock was flung through a window.
Still, things seemed to be improving, until two years ago when Molotov cocktails were thrown at the four apartments in Ramona Gardens. Police said they strongly suspected the attacks were racially motivated. At least one resident said at the time that she would ask for an emergency transfer out of the complex, though she noted that things had been calm until the fiery attack. Others insisted they would stay.
At the time of the May 12 attack there were 23 black families living in Ramona Gardens. As of June, 3% of Ramona Gardens residents were African American, according to the L.A. city housing authority.
The 25-page indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that a sophisticated level of planning went into the attack and describes Big Hazard’s longstanding efforts to scare African Americans away from the project. Gang members would “monitor the activity” of African Americans and threaten those who lived in Ramona Gardens “that they risked harm if they remained,” according to the indictment.
The attack was discussed at a gang meeting in early May 2014, prosecutors allege, where Carlos Hernandez, 31, told gang members that they would use Molotov cocktails to firebomb apartments where black families lived. On May 11 — Mother’s Day — the group met again to plan the attack, according to the indictment.
When childhood innocence and gang violence lived side by side in Boyle Heights
“They left,” she said.
Vega and her 12-year-old grandson said more black families have moved into the housing project, which they said has become safer thanks to increased police patrols and the installation of security cameras. Gang members aren’t as common, Vega added.
“The gangs were heavy around here,” she said. “Now they aren’t.”
Rosa Gonzalez, another longtime resident, agreed that more black families were living at Ramona Gardens and that it was safer. But, she said, the gang still lingers.
“Some are dead, some are in jail, some left," she said. "The gang is small, but it hasn't gone away."
Seven Los Angeles Men Charged for Firebombing African-American Residences | OPA | Department of Justice
"The defendants used firebombs to drive the victims from their homes because of their race,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This is a hate crime. Such violence and intimidation have no place in our society.”
"Carlos Hernandez, aka Creeper and Rider, 31; Jose Saucedo, aka Lil’ Moe, 22; Francisco Farias, aka Bones, 25; Joseue Garibay, aka Malo, 23; Edwin Felix, aka Boogie, 23; Jonathan Portillo, aka Pelon, 21; and Joel Matthew Monarrez, aka Gallo, 21, were charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights; conspiracy to use fire and carry explosives to commit another federal felony; attempted arson of federal property; using fire and carrying explosives to commit another federal felony; aiding and abetting; violent crime in aid of racketeering and interference with housing rights. Hernandez and Farias were also charged with possessing, using, carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, and Felix was also charged with making a false statement to the FBI."
LA Times article:
Latino gang members firebombed black residents to drive them out of Boyle Heights project, prosecutors allege
Boyle Heights firebomb attack indictment
The charges are the latest in several criminal accusations over the last two decades against Latino street gangs that used violence to push rival black gangs out of certain neighborhoods. A few years ago, federal prosecutors charged members of a Latino gang with a campaign to push blacks out of the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood that allegedly resulted in 20 homicides over three years. In the Harbor Gateway district of L.A., a Latino gang was accused of targeting African Americans, including 14-year-old Cheryl Green, whose death became a rallying point against such attacks. Members of the Avenues, a Latino gang in Highland Park, were convicted of a series of assaults and killings in the early 1990s.
In the Ramona Garden case, prosecutors described the defendants as members of the Big Hazard street gang, an Eastside gang that dates back to the 1940s. The charges included conspiring to violate civil rights, interfering with housing rights, committing violent crime to aid racketeering, and using fire and carrying explosives to commit a federal felony.
For more than a generation, keeping blacks out of the housing complex seemed a point of pride for Big Hazard.
On Aug. 30, 1992, an explosion ripped through the pantry of a Ramona Gardens apartment where a black couple and their seven children lived. When they ran outside they realized that another black family across the street had been attacked just minutes earlier.
At the time, only seven black families lived in the project. But after the attack they began to quickly pack up and leave.
The firebombings ushered in a nearly 20-year period in which virtually no blacks lived at Ramona Gardens. Big Hazard had deep connections to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, which influenced Latino gangs and directed attacks on blacks.
Surveillance video shows suspects in firebombing at Ramona Gardens, a Boyle Heights housing project, in May 2014. (Los Angeles Police Department)
Eventually black families started moving back to Ramona Gardens, a sign of progress in a community and a city that had largely put aside the violence of the 1990s. But even then, a gang said to no longer hold the sway that it once did tried to intimidate black residents into leaving. Some threats were verbal. Others came in the form of slurs, like the one written in the dust accumulated on the car of one black resident. In at least one case, a rock was flung through a window.
Still, things seemed to be improving, until two years ago when Molotov cocktails were thrown at the four apartments in Ramona Gardens. Police said they strongly suspected the attacks were racially motivated. At least one resident said at the time that she would ask for an emergency transfer out of the complex, though she noted that things had been calm until the fiery attack. Others insisted they would stay.
At the time of the May 12 attack there were 23 black families living in Ramona Gardens. As of June, 3% of Ramona Gardens residents were African American, according to the L.A. city housing authority.
The 25-page indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that a sophisticated level of planning went into the attack and describes Big Hazard’s longstanding efforts to scare African Americans away from the project. Gang members would “monitor the activity” of African Americans and threaten those who lived in Ramona Gardens “that they risked harm if they remained,” according to the indictment.
The attack was discussed at a gang meeting in early May 2014, prosecutors allege, where Carlos Hernandez, 31, told gang members that they would use Molotov cocktails to firebomb apartments where black families lived. On May 11 — Mother’s Day — the group met again to plan the attack, according to the indictment.
When childhood innocence and gang violence lived side by side in Boyle Heights
“They left,” she said.
Vega and her 12-year-old grandson said more black families have moved into the housing project, which they said has become safer thanks to increased police patrols and the installation of security cameras. Gang members aren’t as common, Vega added.
“The gangs were heavy around here,” she said. “Now they aren’t.”
Rosa Gonzalez, another longtime resident, agreed that more black families were living at Ramona Gardens and that it was safer. But, she said, the gang still lingers.
“Some are dead, some are in jail, some left," she said. "The gang is small, but it hasn't gone away."
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How can this be when Hispanics and other people of color are our biggest allies against white suprenacy?
