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Police cite race in rash of shootings
Black-Latino attacks rise
By Mary Frances Gurton Staff Writer
PASADENA - Twenty-year-old Acevedo Fortino was shot to death in late August while trying to stop a racially motivated attack on East Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, according to police.
Eight days later, Erica Hindman, 21, was the unintended victim of a bullet fired by a Pasadena police officer investigating a similar racially motivated shooting incident in the 1800 block of North Marengo Avenue.
City leaders say the two deaths may well be the culmination of a slew of about 60 attacks, known as S.O.M. or "Sock on Mexican" by their perpetrators, which have been reported this year, according to police Chief Bernard Melekian.
It's an acronym and a string of words with which the chief admits to being extremely uncomfortable.
"I have, until tonight, avoided using this phrase in public, but I think the events of the last few nights mandate that I do so," the chief told the city's Human Relations Commission last week. "We have deployed every section of the Police Department in order combat this trend."
Police said the attacks have been undertaken primarily by African-American gang members, targeting older Latino men, usually walking alone at night, generally leaving work at local restaurants, Melekian said.
Black-Latino attacks rise
By Mary Frances Gurton Staff Writer
PASADENA - Twenty-year-old Acevedo Fortino was shot to death in late August while trying to stop a racially motivated attack on East Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, according to police.
Eight days later, Erica Hindman, 21, was the unintended victim of a bullet fired by a Pasadena police officer investigating a similar racially motivated shooting incident in the 1800 block of North Marengo Avenue.
City leaders say the two deaths may well be the culmination of a slew of about 60 attacks, known as S.O.M. or "Sock on Mexican" by their perpetrators, which have been reported this year, according to police Chief Bernard Melekian.
It's an acronym and a string of words with which the chief admits to being extremely uncomfortable.
"I have, until tonight, avoided using this phrase in public, but I think the events of the last few nights mandate that I do so," the chief told the city's Human Relations Commission last week. "We have deployed every section of the Police Department in order combat this trend."
Police said the attacks have been undertaken primarily by African-American gang members, targeting older Latino men, usually walking alone at night, generally leaving work at local restaurants, Melekian said.
I went to berkeley high and it was kinda the opposite, everyone hated the Nortenos....there was one fight where a WSB member was fighting a black crip...one of the wsb members went running to get the rest of their click and as they came back they started getting picked off by all the black kids in the school.....that day was great, there were at least 15 fights, foos getting KO'd and knocked over brick walls....then they started shooting :dead:
it was my understanding that (most) blacks and mexicans don't get along in socal, my cousin & uncle would always get the strangest looks when they're together kicking it cuz one's black and the other's latino
it was my understanding that (most) blacks and mexicans don't get along in socal, my cousin & uncle would always get the strangest looks when they're together kicking it cuz one's black and the other's latino
you got it all wrong.....so every person that steps foot on this side of the country is racist? ignorant!!! there's only a select few who accumulate hate while on this side of the border, it doesn't come from being a certain nationality. There will always be hate and prejudice around the world and there's nothing to stop it. All I can do as a person is not judge a certain ethinicity or nationality because of their living conditions, skin color, accent, or physical apperance. You still have alot to learn and by sitting on the computer making generalizations, you're no better than the kids in the pics.
You got a lot of learning to do. Lay off the "streets", tv, liquor, and internet for a bit.
