AlainLocke
Banned
Gang member mistakenly kills one of his own who was wearing wrong colors, police say
Wrong Moves, Clothes, Colors A Death Sentence In Gang World
I can keep going. All my points are backed by statistics and actual evidence.
And you're going in circles. We can agree to disagree that everyone in a gang has no other choice. Whatever.
Breh, so one young 21 year gang member kills another one in the same gang wearing the wrong colors....you act like it's an epidemic...
And then you gonna post an article that says exactly wtf I said...
nikka..
Just stop...did you read the fukking article....
Just stop breh...
You lost.
Wrong Moves, Clothes, Colors A Death Sentence In Gang World
``I take precautions,`` the youth told her. ``I don`t go down certain streets. I don`t drive by with a group of guys, onlywith my mother, father and brother.``
Most of the shooting has to do with drugs-protecting drug turf, customers, profits, merchandise and salesmen. Because so much of the drug-dealing is handled on the street, gang members feel vulnerable to strangers or perceived enemies passing by or intruding on their hideouts in abandoned buildings.
``It`s a war mentality,`` said George Knox, a sociology professor at Chicago State University who has written a textbook about gangs. ``It`s the economy, drug competition and drug sales.``
``Anything that gets people jumpy . . . with cars is dangerous,`` said Robert Simandl, a Chicago gang crimes officer and chairman of the Midwest Gang Investigators Association. ``A fast U-turn, screeching tires. You can bet people are reaching for their guns.``
Kevin Heard died because he slowed his car to search for an address.
Heard, 23, was looking for a party near 84th and Throop Streets just after midnight on July 2. Heard, a college honors student studying architecture, apparently was mistaken for a rival gang member and shot to death by 21-year-old Joseph Owens and a 14-year-old boy, according to police. The two have been charged with murder.
``He was an innocent victim,`` said Pullman Area Detective John Duffy.
``I think they believed he was a member of an opposite gang and he was scoping them out.``
``It all reverts back to the security of their turf, and it`s more than just their neighborhood,`` Simandl said. ``It`s their drug distribution area. We`re talking dollars and cents. Anybody might be a threat, someone who might come in and rob them.``
Knox says gang members often think they are protecting themselves and their neighbors when they shoot suspicious outsiders. Gangs have always served a territorial function, he said; now that drug sales are the gangs` dominant and extremely serious business, they must even more zealously guard their turf. Unfamiliar motorists are especially suspicious.
Duffy has some advice for parents: ``If you want to protect your children, you`ve got to buy them generic clothing, and don`t let them leave the house with a hat. They should wear penny loafers, anything without shoelaces, because the color of the gym shoes and the color of the laces are a big indicator of gang affiliation. And they should not wear earrings, hats or scarves. They should never make eye contact at a stoplight.``
