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Tliis Is An Artist’s impression of a I (right) and members of a black teen-“misunderstanding” which occurred age gang in Los Angeles, recently between a strect-worker •Teen-Age Violence Part IIThe Birth Of The Gangs(Editor’s Note: This is the second of six articles on teen-age violence in America).By Jack WebbCopley News Service“We’re all killing ourselves.”—a member of a teen-age gang in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES — A1 Hayes is an angry man.“We don't want any more trouble,” he said, the words hissing between his lips at the reporter, his strong black face tight with rage. “So what’s your approach? I’m listenin’.”Al Hayes has good reason to be angry. The principal of Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles, he’s sitting on a tinderbox that seems ready to explode.Five students were shot during homecoming ceremonies at his school last year, and he thinks the trouble is far from over — the trouble with the black and Mexican - American gangs who have turned I. A. high schools into what another principal calls “armed camps.”There is a fear In the washed-out streets of Watts, of East Ixs Angeles, of the ghetto areas of lxs Angeles. It is a fear that is not restricted to policemen, who sometimes wonder whether they’ll be spending the night at home or in the morgue. It is not restricted to whites — few of whom have been killed by gangs, anyway.It is a fear that is felt by gang members, one of whom admitted plaintively: “We’re killing each other,him what he wants.Whatever the reason, the gangs have been growing at a rapid pace the last two years. When members of one new black gang stomped Robert Ballou, an 18-vear-old honor student, tf death outside the Hollywood Palladium, blacks who’d never even thought of joining gangs started handingtogether for protection.Soon they were gang members themselves — members of gangs with tough - sounding names like the Bounty Hunters, t h e Brims and the Van Brims.Today there are an estimated 14,000 teen-age gang members in I^os Angeles.Next: Of truces and submachine guns.L. A police say 29 people were killed by gangs in 1972, at least five so far this year Other sources put the figure far higher.The leather - jacketed blacks and Mexican -Americans who are killing each other in the streets of Los Angeles do not stop their violence at the edge of the school grounds. As of January, there had been 122 assaults on teachers in L.murders and 512 beatings of School - age youngsters.The statistics have a frightening similarity to those coming out of other big cities — New York, for example, reported 541 attacks on teachers last year, almost double the 285 reported in 1971 Teen-age gangs are not new A little over 10 years ago there was a sudden, Inexplicable wave of teenage killings in a handful of Eastern cities. Teen - age gangs, leather - jacketed desperadoes, were hauled into court at a record pace Surly, smug, one of them stared at a reporter w h o asked what he was planning to do next “I want to kill you,” he finally replied.What is new about today's wave of killings is that the teen-age hoodlums have graduated from bicycle chains and knives to automatic pistols One gang, reportedly. even has subma- ! chine gunsAnother thing that’s new | is that the gangs are no longer confined to the ghet- I tov ( rips, the biggest and most belligerent of L A’s black gangs, has chapters in several middle - class high schools.According to one social worker, the new black gangs in the nation’s b i g cities (Crips is only t w o years old) have turned to violence out of despair.“After the ’65 riots,” said this social worker, *‘t h e kids turned to political stuff, Joining groups like the Black Panthers.“But now they see that that’s not going anyplace, so they’ve started joining gangs. With one difference, of course They’ve learned to use guns.”A former gang member bad a slightly different explanation.Did vou see that movie ‘Super Fly,’ man0 Well, that eat was so cool — that’s where it’s al,”As the voung blank man described it, Super Fly ’ Is about a black man who can operate outside the law, conning whites into givingEvangelistTells Of Works HereEvangelist George Otis of And I’d rather believe errone-j California told an audience at nusly 10 miracles than not to be-the Monroe Civic Center the- lieve one that really hap-ater Thursday that religi- pened.”on should not be approached Odis is best characterized,solely on an intellectual level, perhaps, as a flamboyant since “there is another, high- speaker, one who is constantly er realm of spiritual under- in motion while delivering his standing that is more import- sermons. He described his ef-ant ” 'forts to stimulate a revival!The evangelist was in Mon- j movement here as an effort “to roe at the invitation of the Hap take this city” with the assist-py Harvest Fellowship. lance of God.He told the local iudierfte He listed three developments that there has never been a: that have pleaded him during day like this dav of revival i recent years “One is a pouring sweeping the world In sup- out of the Holy Spirit on peo-pnrt of his statement, he de-;plo of all denominations, he scribed his effort to travel to said A second surprise listed Indonesia where a revival and by him was that of observing healing program was reported how the windows of the Roman to be underway j Catholic Church have opened J“Now I can’t'testify that mir- and Catholics all over the world Holes of healing took place are beginning to be bap_I there because I never saw ttzed with the Holy Spirit and ! them with my own eves, he are taking part in this great re-Ssaid. but 1 talked to man\ vlval.” ncople and 1 beliese miracles He also reported surprise to happened find that church groups suchIV explained bis personal at- as the Christian Scientists and titude toward the concept at m:- Unitarians are taking greater raculoui healing “It takes a interest in the Pentecostal miracle to beltpve a miracle, movement. _WILLIAM V. 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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Fri, Mar 23, 1973
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