LA Gang F13 Accused of Targeting Blacks

[Blackthor]

Fighting for your hood, huh? When will people realize "THEY DON'T OWN SHIT"! When the National Guard comes through we'll see who's hood it is!



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Quote:LA Gang F13 Accused of Targeting Blacks
AP
Posted: 2007-12-30 13:59:15
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a murderous quest aimed at "cleansing" their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County's most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.

There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings of black gangsters and then, when the intended victim couldn't be located, said "Well, shoot any black you see," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.

"In certain cases some murders were just purely motivated on killing a black person," Baca said.

Authorities say there were 20 murders among more than 80 shootings documented during the gang's rampage in the hardscrabble Florence-Firestone neighborhood, exceptional even in an area where gang violence has been commonplace for decades. They don't specify the time frame or how many of the killings were racial.

Los Angeles has struggled with gang violence for years, especially during the wars in the late 1980s and early '90s between the Crips and the Bloods - both black gangs. Latino gangs have gained influence since then as the Hispanic population surged.

Evidence of Florencia 13, or F13, is easy to find in Florence-Firestone. Arrows spray-painted on the wall of a liquor store mark the gang's boundary and graffiti warns rivals to steer clear.

The gang's name comes from the neighborhood that is its stronghold and the 13th letter of the alphabet - M - representing the gang's ties to the Mexican Mafia.

Federal, state and local officials worked together to charge 102 men linked to F13 with racketeering, conspiracy to murder, weapons possession, drug dealing and other crimes. In terms of people charged, it's the largest-ever federal case involving a Southern California gang, prosecutors say. More than 80 of those indicted are in custody.

But eliminating the gang won't be easy. It's survived for decades and is believed to have about 2,000 members. Its reach extends to Nevada, Arizona and into prisons, where prosecutors say incarcerated gang leaders were able to order hits on black gangsters.

According to the indictment, F13's leader, Arturo Castellanos, sent word in 2004 from California's fortress-like Pelican Bay State Prison that he wanted his street soldiers to begin "cleansing" Florence-Firestone of black gangsters, notably the East Coast Crips, and snitches.

His followers eagerly obeyed, according to federal prosecutors.

In one case, F13 members came across a black man at a bus stop, shouted "Cheese toast!" and fired. "Cheese toast" is a derogatory name for East Coast Crips, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin S. Rosenberg said.

The victim, apparently targeted only because of his skin color, survived being shot several times, Rosenberg said.

F13 isn't the only Latino gang linked to racial killings. Last year, four members of The Avenues, a gang from the Highland Park area east of downtown Los Angeles, were convicted of hate crimes for killing a black man in what prosecutors called a campaign to drive blacks from that neighborhood. And last January, authorities announced a crackdown on the 204th Street gang following the killing of a 14-year-old black girl.

The violence goes both ways, said Adam Torres, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department gang detective whose beat includes Florence-Firestone.

During a recent patrol on the east side of the neighborhood, he pointed to a cinderblock wall peppered with bullet holes. Torres said the Crips still control that area and any Hispanic there is at risk of being shot.

Despite the wave of violence, George Tita, a criminologist with the University of California, Irvine, said racially motivated gang killings are an exception. Latinos and blacks are far more likely to be murdered by one of their own.

"You don't see these major black-brown wars, either within the context of gangs or outside the context of gangs," Tita said.

Residents of Florence-Firestone are loath to discuss gangs, fearful they might end up as targets, but there are signs of change. Murders in the neighborhood dropped from 43 in 2005 to 19 in 2006, Baca said. For 2007, there were 19 murders as of Dec. 24.

Jose Garcia sees the difference. The security doors on the store where he works aren't covered with graffiti as often and he hasn't heard a gunshot in two months.

"It used to be at least once or twice a week," he said.


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12/30/07 13:58 EST

"Despite the wave of violence, George Tita, a criminologist with the University of California, Irvine, said racially motivated gang killings are an exception. Latinos and blacks are far more likely to be murdered by one of their own." There's some good news.

[B4Time]

f13 was just on the news here tonight.they spray painted a war memorial. f13 die gringo stuff like this.

[Hei Hu Quan]

I'm starting to wonder if these F13 aren't a pseudo-gang or intel contrivance. Remember the Jamaican "shower posse's" in the late 1980's? A significant amount of them had CIA ties and backing connected to political terrorism and the marijuana and cocaine government product drug trade. Race against race violence usually plays to the favour of groups like Division Five of the FBI, and other IllumiNazi social manipulators who want to maintain and exacerbate hatred and inter-racial hostilities to keep the focus off of the real to echelon criminal predators. If we're to busy fucking one another up and dividing, the slimy bastards can carry on in the background unchallenged and undisrupted.


Most racialist gangs have flourishing illegal businesses they don't want interrupted or drawn attention to, it's not in their usual M.O. Like the Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerilla family, etc. have skirmishes with other gangs but it's usually over business and doesn't involve wholesale racial murder sprees. Murder brings undue and unwanted attention to them which is why you don't hear of these groups in the media too often. Blatantly racial motivated murders on random and innocent civilians is a sure-fire way to draw the attention of law enforcement, and to me sends up a red flag of suspicion.

[B4Time]

Hei Hu Quan your pretty sharp and correct.The Mob,Hells angles, Latin kings or who ever it is the first rule is don,t do anything that screws with the money flow.These groups never want attention and those that do feck up the money flow pay dearly.Also I have found that the locals chapters gangs groups of these people(around my area anyway) almost always have a tie in government or court system.Some actually have a large overhead so to speak to keep everything all greased up and the money flowing.F13 in my area does not fit any of this I can't even find them here it's like they don't exist.No club house,no gang,no one cutting in to the other established gangs.Nothing and I talked to everyone I know,just the name on the news with some slurs from time to time.This is just in my area I have not checked out F13 at all as far as a national gang or what they stand for.

[TraxusIV]

F13? What about MS13? MS has been targeting blacks for a long time now. Its almost a full blown ethnic cleansing over there. Quite literally, if you are black and they expand their territory into you neighborhood you either leave or you die. Its fuckin rough. Plus MS13 is like a global crime syndicate now that encompasses most of the Americas. At anytime they wanted they could literally start a war with the US. Itd be rough.

But, like HHQ said, we'd be retarded to think they werent left to do what ever they want. The media blackout on the cleansing as well as their drug and slavery rings going unopposed looks curiously like a free pass by our PTB that do the same.