Racial Hate Feeds a Gang War’s Senseless Killing – Los Angeles
Tagged: California, Los Angeles, policePosted on: January 17th, 2007“The Latino gang members were looking for a black person, any black person, to shoot, the police said, and they found one. Cheryl Green, perched near her scooter chatting with friends, was shot dead in a spray of bullets that left several other young people injured.
She was 14, an eighth grader who loved junk food and watching Court TV with her mother and had recently written a poem beginning: “I am black and beautiful. I wonder how I will be living in the future.””
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